Wasp Nest in the Preserve

This nest is beautiful.

Wasps going in an out. 

 

Birds in My Garden

Goldfinches love the fountain.

Junior goldfinches dance around it but won't land.

They are eating the sunflowers. 

 

Deer Today

Five crossing the construction area. 

Mama, 2 yearlings and 2 fawns, one fawn went ahead of group. 

Wildflowers-Yarrow

This is a drought-tolerant wildflower.

Yellow-yarrow or golden-yarrow is a stiff, mounded, shrub-like plant, 8-20 in. high, with many erect, herbaceous branches and very finely divided, gray-green leaves. Small, deep-yellow flowers gather together in yarrow-like clusters.

There are several clusters of these in the preserve. 

Other Wildflowers in 2022

Lots of native daisies. Noxious Weed

Leontodon saxatilis - noxious weed

Queen Ann's Lace.

Tall butter weed, tansy lookalike.

Hooded Lady's Tresses.

Leontodon saxatilis

New Wildflower - Spiranthes Romanzoffiana - Hooded Lady's Tresses

Spiranthes romanzoffiana also known as hooded lady's-tresses.

It is in the orchid family.

In the preserve by the bench at the blue dot on the map.

Probably have found about 15 or more this year.

They are mostly on the north side of the park. 

Spiranthes romanzoffiana - Hooded Ladies' Tresses

Stem erect, with dense spike of flowers. Basal leaves to 5 in. long; stem leaves reduced to bracts. Flowers pure white, in 3 precise rows, twisting as they spire upward. Flower with upper petals and sepals fused into inflated hood; lower petal violin-shaped, extending down and back toward stem, tip hairless. Grows in wet places, along streams, bogs, marshes, in prairies and meadows, in all elevations to timberline.

Rarity: Uncommon

Flowering Time: Mid Summer

Life Cycle: Perennial

Height: 8--24 inches

Habitat: Meadow, West-Side Forest, Subalpine, Bog/Fen/Wetland, Coastal

Native: Yes