Found 50-100 migrating Green Darner Dragonflies hunting insects 1-8 feet above our small prairie this evening. A group of swallows were also hunting insect in the same area but at 20-30 feet above the prairie. Cooperation????
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Sunday, August 23, 2026
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Saturday, August 22, 2026
Monarch on Cup Plant.
posted by NATURE NOTES OF S.E. MINNESOTA by Gary and Bobbie Erickson @ 8:34 AM
Wild Onion flower.
posted by NATURE NOTES OF S.E. MINNESOTA by Gary and Bobbie Erickson @ 8:33 AM
Friday, August 21, 2026
Good to see the large yellow and black Garden spiders again.
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Monday, August 17, 2026
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Sunday, August 16, 2026
Virgin's Brower, a 1 inch flowered native climatis that attracts many pollinators
posted by NATURE NOTES OF S.E. MINNESOTA by Gary and Bobbie Erickson @ 8:37 AM
Monday, August 3, 2026
Male Tiger Swallowtail on Tiger Lily. The top photo shows this butterfly had been attacked.
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Monday, July 27, 2026
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Friday, July 24, 2026
Bobbie photographed this 2 inch Hummingbird Moth sipping nectar from a wild bergamot.
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Sunday, July 12, 2026
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Wild St. Johnswort on our prairie.
posted by NATURE NOTES OF S.E. MINNESOTA by Gary and Bobbie Erickson @ 9:44 AM
Monday, July 6, 2026
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Thursday, July 2, 2026
This Monarch survived over 7 inches of battering rains at our place over the last 36 hours.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Mom brought her fawn up to dash around our lawn this morning as she dined on our flowers.
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Friday, June 19, 2026
Male Blue Dasher Dragonfly.
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Bobbie shot this Fritillary on Butterfly Milkweed.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Granite erosional Needle spires of the Black Hills.
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For years we have kept track of events such as the arrival of the first Hummingbird or the blooming of the first Marsh Marigold. We have now begun to photograph these events and felt others may be interested in what we run into in our "nature wanderings".
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