One goal that I set for myself this year was to take photographs of as many species of wildflowers as I can in Mt. Pleasant. I chose to do this because I have a long list of flowers that I have found in town over the past twelve years. I want to see how many I can find in one growing season. This means, that as flowers have begun blooming over the past two weeks, I have been spending as much time in the woods as possible.
This does not mean that wildflower pictures are the only photographs that I am taking. Here a few of my other photos from the past two weeks.
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| A pile of wood chips and a chewed log - a beaver has been chewing on this downed cottonwood. |
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| A windy, cloudy April day. This picture was taken on the day that the Chippewa River began flooding. |
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| Can you find the nesting Canada Goose? |
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| A male Red-winged Blackbird sways on a cattail stalk |
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| The first warbler of the year - a Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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| A Mallard hen sits watching me as her mate swims away |
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| Last Autumn's oak leaves |
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| Black squirrels are a color phase of Gray Squirrel |
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| A Black-capped Chickadee foraging for food and nesting sites |
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| This Downy Woodpecker prefers to make its own nest cavity |
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| A carpet of Wild Leek |
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| A Six-spotted Tiger Beetle running along an asphalt trail |
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| Map Turtles sunning themselves along the Chippewa River |
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| A trio of Brown-headed Cowbirds |
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| Vibrant green leaves of Skunk Cabbage are beginning to open |
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| A curl of birch bark |
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