It’s one of those cool, misty mornings in late July. I am awakened at 5:30 by a sweet song in the nearby prairie—the paired notes of an Indigo Bunting.
We are very fortunate to have Red-headed Woodpeckers—our favorite oak woodland and savanna species—at our Wildland cabin year round for the past couple of years.
2025 was another amazing year of dedicated volunteers putting in thousands of hours monitoring the Bald Eagle nests they were assigned to, and documenting the fate of those nests.
If you’ve wandered through the prairies at Faville Grove in summer, especially along Prairie Lane, chances are you’ve heard a buzzy, rhythmic “see-see, dic-dic, ciss-ciss-ciss,” ringing from the tops of prairie plants.