Recent searches
Search options
Why yes, I do garden for habitat. Why do you ask?
(Visiting my garden right now.)
And today, the Ceratina (Zadontomerus), small carpenter bees, are flying. Females overwintered as adults from last year in dry, pithy plant stems from two years ago I left standing. They will nest in the same stems, if possible. This year's generation will nest in different stems I left standing from *last* year. And so on.
If I had cut down everything this Spring, or Fall, I would have destroyed their nests and broken their reproductive cycle.
Just now in my backyard: a lifer bird for me.
Can I habitat, or what?!
They came back!
(Video, but no sound needed.)
Brooklyn is on the Atlantic Flyway. I'm just a half-mile south of Prospect Park, a fave/famed birding spot.
From the start, I've designed my backyard, using native plants, like a clearing in the woods. It works.
All kinds of birds drop in, especially during Spring/Fall migrations. The stone birdbath is a favorite. Berries Summer & Winter.
@xris@ecoevo.socialTwo days ago, I had another birdbath visitor: a female yellowthroat!
And this afternoon, I had an even more uncommon visitor to my backyard: a female magnolia warbler.
I've only seen one in my garden twice before, five years ago, and ten years ago! So I guess I was due for a quinquennial visit.