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May Phenology 3: Bird Arrival Dates

by Carl Strang The pattern in the past has been for migrant bird arrival dates to be more similar between years than is true of flower and insect first appearances. Birds are capable of making small a… more →

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May Phenology 3: Bird Arrival Dates

natureinquiries wrote 1 week ago: by Carl Strang The pattern in the past has been for migrant bird arrival dates to be more similar be … more →

Tags: Birds, Ecology, Eastern Wood Pewee, migration, Phenology

May Phenology 2: Insect First Appearances

natureinquiries wrote 1 week ago: by Carl Strang Today’s seasonal comparison is between first appearance dates of insects at Mayslake … more →

Tags: dragonflies and damselflies, Ecology, insects (other), Anax junius, bee-fly, Bombylius major, Common Green Darner, insect phenology

May Phenology 1: First Flowering Dates

natureinquiries wrote 1 week ago: by Carl Strang The end of May brings the next opportunity to compare seasonal timings between 2013 a … more →

Tags: Botany, Ecology, broad-leaved woolly sedge, Carex pellita, common spiderwort, Melilotus officinalis, Phenology, Tradescantia ohiensis, yellow sweet clover

Bumblebee Mimics — 1 comment

natureinquiries wrote 2 weeks ago: by Carl Strang There are mimics, and there are mimics. A couple years ago at Mayslake Forest Preserv … more →

Tags: insects (other), bumblebee mimic, danada, Laphria grossa, laphria thoracica, Merodon equestris, Mimicry, Narcissus bulb fly

Burned Area Recoveries — 1 comment

natureinquiries wrote 2 weeks ago: by Carl Strang The extensive areas at Mayslake Forest Preserve that received controlled burns this s … more →

Tags: Botany, Restoration, singing insects, Chortophaga viridifasciata, Controlled Burn, green-striped grasshopper, Rhus glabra, smooth sumac

Open for Prayer — 1 comment

Brian Gaynor wrote 3 weeks ago: The beautiful Portiuncula Chapel of St. Francis of Assisi at the Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Broo … more →

Tags: eclectic, assisi, Chapel, church, Oak Brook, Peabody, Photography, Portiuncula, Prayer

The Cross in the Woods — 8 comments

Brian Gaynor wrote 3 weeks ago: Photo taken at Mayslake in Oak Brook, Illinois. … more →

Tags: artistic, eclectic, Art, Cross, Crucifix, Faith, nature, Oak Brook, Photography

Small Mysteries

natureinquiries wrote 3 weeks ago: by Carl Strang Even when distracted the mind notices, finds questions. Some remain intractable. Why … more →

Tags: Botany, Birds, plant-eating insects, fungi, Culver, Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana, Polyphemus moth, Antheraea polyphemus

Update — 1 comment

natureinquiries wrote 4 weeks ago: by Carl Strang Circumstances have prevented me from gathering much new blog material for the past we … more →

Tags: singing insects, Birds, Herrick Lake, white-crowned sparrow, spring field cricket, Gryllus veletis, Marshall County Indiana, sulfur-winged grasshopper, Arphia sulfurea

First Brood

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang Last week the first Canada goose brood of the season appeared on Mays’ Lake. There we … more →

Tags: Birds, canada goose, Muskrat, Nest, brood

The Greening of Mayslake

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang The once blackened, burned portions of Mayslake Forest Preserve are responding to the … more →

Tags: Botany, Ecology, Restoration, Bellwort, Controlled Burn, Dicentra cucullaria, Dutchman's Breeches, early buttercup, Ranunculus fascicularis

Bird Arrival Phenology

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang On Friday I shared this year’s flowering phenology through the end of April. There ha … more →

Tags: Birds, Ecology, killdeer, Phenology, Pine Warbler

April Flower Phenology

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang We finally got some flowers in April, so it is possible to quantify how late this spr … more →

Tags: Botany, Ecology, bloodroot, Common Blue Violet, cutleaf toothwort, Dentaria laciniata, Erythronium albidum, Phenology, Sanguinaria canadensis

Mayslake Animal Update

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang Every season contains the seeds of the next, and this was very true at Mayslake Fores … more →

Tags: mammals, Birds, insects (other), coyote, fox squirrel, winter wren, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bumblebee, Bombus bimaculatus

Scoured — 1 comment

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang With water levels returning to their usual lower levels in the wake of last week’s fl … more →

Tags: Geology, Ecology, insects (other), invertebrates (other), Flood, stream ecology

Spring

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang By my own subjective criteria, I have to declare that spring finally arrived, with a … more →

Tags: Botany, dragonflies and damselflies, plant-eating insects, Ecology, bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis, Seasons, Erythronium albidum, White Trout Lily

The Flood and Animals — 1 comment

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang Yesterday I shared some images of last week’s flood at Mayslake Forest Preserve. When … more →

Tags: mammals, Birds, Ecology, beaver, canada goose, Nest, Tree Swallow, NOrthern Rough-winged Swallow, Barn swallow

Flood! — 1 comment

natureinquiries wrote 1 month ago: by Carl Strang Transformations of familiar landscapes happen from time to time. Some of these are rh … more →

Tags: Ecology, Flood

On the Verge — 3 comments

natureinquiries wrote 2 months ago: by Carl Strang Having decided that, for me, the arrival of spring will be signaled by the first bloo … more →

Tags: Ecology, Seasons, Erythronium albidum, White Trout Lily


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