In early June this year, I observed fascinating behavior of a pair of waxwings that flew into the mulberry when its fruits were developing but not yet ripe.
Floodplain prairies are adapted to periodic flooding—dormant prairie plants can survive when inundated in water. An avian visitor to the flooded prairies is the Osprey.
I hear a repeated, melodious, elaborate song—a warble coming from the top of the aspen trees that surround a small pothole on the edge of a sedge meadow.
The grasslands aren’t the only areas with bird activity in the spring. . . . [upcoming] restoration work will be focused on species of birds that inhabit the oak savanna.