Wild

The Hubs and I share a hobby: we love to identify and classify things in nature.  We live in a very rural area, far from the interference created by roads, cars, city lights, or population noise.  Thus, the natural landscape around our home is filled with wildlife of all types.  We frequently spend an afternoon slowly walking around the yard, field guides in hand, looking for new species of trees, flowers, bugs, birds, etc. to add to our species lists.  I thought it would be fun to keep a running list of our sightings online.  This is a work in progress and eventually I’d like to fill this page with notes and links to relevant articles and photos.  Please note that many of the links will take you outside of the Crumbdoodles ‘verse, and I’m not responsible for the content of those links.

Flowers:
Oxeye Daisy
Daisy fleabane
Whitlow grass
Common St. John’s wort
Wild geranium
Common buttercup
Yarrow
Hairy Vetch
Heal-all
Canadian thistle
Swamp buttercup
Smaller forget-me-not
True forget-me-not
Lamb’s quarters
Black-eye Susan
Yellow wood sorrel
Alsike clover
Spotted touch-me-not
Dandelion
Purple loosestrife
Meadowsweet
Swamp candles
Flat-topped white aster
Blue flag
Wild lupine
Rabbit-foot clover
Ragged robin
Tall meadow rue
White clover
Evening primrose
Spreading dogbane
Queen-of-the-prairie
Mouse-ear hawkweed
Orange hawkweed
Garden loosestrife
Smooth bedstraw
Smartweed

Birds:
Chickadee
Blue jay
Cardinal
Hairy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Pileated woodpecker
Purple finch
American goldfinch
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Dark-eyed junco
Nuthatch
Red-wing blackbird
Starling
Mourning dove
Bohemian waxwing
Ruffed grouse
Turkey
Tufted titmouse
Evening grosbeak
Brown-headed cowbird
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Indigo bunting
Yellow warbler
Gray catbird
Ruby-throated hummingbird

Trees:
Balsam fir
Paper birch
Gray birch
Blue spruce