A Race to the End
Black Racer Snake Like snakes? This is a story of snake predation skills, so this is a story for you. Hate snakes? One meets his demise so this is a story for you as well. How is this possible?...
View ArticleOf Seedheads and Berries in Autumn
Sycamore Leaf with Purple Sage (Salvia) Seedheads, Santa Monica Mtns, Photo by Kathy Vilim In California autumn comes slowly, taking her time after a start that might be called “Indian Summer” in...
View ArticleTalk About Stuffed…The Things I Find In My Garden
Garter Snake Disclaimer: This article is not for the feint of heart. I was a little grossed out myself. It starts off pleasantly enough. The new English Setter doggie “Elliot” is working out quite...
View ArticleThat Sinking Feeling, Islands in the Stream
A tussock island in a wildlife garden pond Just this past August 2013 when I think it was its most beautiful My tussock island is gone from my wildlife garden pond. I wrote about its arrival two years...
View ArticleWhat’s Scaring the Wildlife?
High Voltage Power Lines Span the Countryside, photo from Kid’s Brittanica On a recent trip to Village Nurseries in Huntington Beach, CA, my first trip to this garden center, I was surprised by its...
View ArticleSquirrelly Squirrels in the Garden
Squirrels are a normal occurrence in a great many beautiful wildlife gardens. Up until this year, suprisingly my yard was not one of them. Perhaps not so surprisingly after all. When I purchased my...
View ArticleFireflies in the Garden
Elkmont Synchronous Fireflies, Photo Credit to Judd Patterson Fireflies in the Garden, a Poem by Robert Frost Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies,...
View ArticleWhere Golden Ornaments Adorn Sycamore Trees
Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) Photo by Las Pilitas Nursery A glint of gold caught my eye from up in the top of a young Sycamore Tree. “Click click” I heard a familiar call and looked closer....
View ArticleWhat Native Plants Will Stay Green In Summer Drought?
Coyote Brush with Butterflies, (Baccharis pilularis consanguinea) Photo courtesy of Las Pilitas Nursery In Southern California, we have a problem: There’s no...
View ArticleWhat’s Hiding in the Garden?
Sycamore Seed Dispersal Halted by Black-eyed Susan “We must look for a long time before we can see”. – Henry David Thoreau What is hiding in your native area? Thoreau says we must look a long time...
View ArticleGardening Change of Attitude
YIKES! Another year flew by and this article begins my fifth year as a writer here at Beautiful Wildlife Garden. Four years in the tank…every Friday since October 8, 2010. Mother Nature has provided...
View ArticlePeeking into the Wildlife Rehabilitator’s World
When I first read Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt I remember being absolutely transported to another place as I tried to picture a day in the life of a wildlife rehabilitator, like Ms. Haupt herself....
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