Douglas-Evans Preserve: 13 June 2006

We spent the afternoon at the Douglas-Evans Nature Preserve a half mile from our house. We saw more wildflowers than we were able to show here, but here are some highlights. Itai describes the trip as: "We were silly. We were laughing. We found butterflies. We found some daisies. We found milkweed. Monarch butteflies eat milkweed."

We saw some Daisy Fleabane, pictured above. To the right, a similar flower is the Ox-Eye Daisy.

And, below, is a butterfly we saw. We think it was a "question mark butterfly" but didn't get enough to time to verify that identification.



















There were wide fields of crown vetch pictured right.

There was so much more, and we'll try to add entries with more flowers we've identified in the coming days.

A highlight of our trip was spotting a male Indigo Bunting, an incredible blue bird that didn't hold still long enough to let us get a picture.