Buffalo Ridge Prairie – 2017

[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Buffalo Ridge Prairie page.]

We didn’t do anything special to this prairie this year.  Oxeye did especially well, but so did Queen Anne’s Lace.

2/20/2017  This edge, shaded by the woods into Indian Grass Point, always stays snowy later than anywhere else.

 

2/20/2017

 

3/13/2017

 

3/15/2017

 

6/19/2017

 

7/1/2017

 

7/8/2017  Ann working on our annual Butterfly Count

 

7/13/2017

 

7/13/2017

 

7/17/2017

 

7/17/2017

 

7/21/2017  It was hard to take photos of the Oxeye that showed what it was really like.  This is the closest I could get.  I glowed in the afternoon sun.

 

7/21/2017

 

7/21/2017

 

7/22/2017  Just before our Moth Party we took a walk but got stopped by this storm.

 

8/5/2017

 

8/10/2017

 

8/13/2017

 

9/3/2017  Indian Grass blooming

 

10/13/2017

 

10/22/2017

 

10/24/2017  Looking down the hill at Volvo Meadow – a planting project for this winter

 

11/2/2017

 

11/3/2017

 

12/20/2017

 

12/14/2017

 

12/18/2017

 

12/29/2017