Native to Eurasia, Yellow Rocket it is considered a weed here and so I was pulling those weeds off my lawn. Even though if the bees may have collecting pollen from the blossoms, but there are plenty of dandelions for the bees to collect pollen from instead.
Bee on Yellow Rocket
The wild plum trees are blossoming but I didn’t notice them yesterday, but that might have been because I was startled by a duck that I startled by the pond and I watched him fly away instead of noticing the flowering trees.
Wild Plum Tree Blossoms
The deer in my woods seem to like white flowers as I cannot find a great white trillium blossom left but only the chewed off stems. And the deer even ate the white blooms of the bloodroots, although I did find some white Wood Anemones flowers which tend to grow in thick mats. A single plant may take five years or more to blossom so hopefully since they are low to the ground, maybe the deer will skip these little wildflowers.
Wood Anemones
My bird feeder had some new color today although most of the birds weren’t sharing so it was a revolving scene of color. The oriole was displaying its orange color as it rested on top of the feeder as the red cardinal was trying to land, but soon was replaced by the goldfinch and the black, red and white of the grosbeak. But a flash of blue caught my eye as an Indigo Bunting flew up from the ground to the feeder. With a cheerful song, it is sometimes called the blue canary.
Indigo Bunting
This spring the first butterfly I saw was the Mourning Cloak, but normally I see the Red Admiral first. One was enjoying the sunshine after some cold cloudy days, but the Red Admiral today looked more orange than red after a long winter. I’ll have to look for other ones to see if they are red like during the summer or pale orange.
Red Admiral Not Red
This Mother’s Day was different as many people were not able to gather in traditional ways. I did pick dandelions for my mom’s bouquet, but since it was cloudy and the flowers had some ice pellets overnight, the dandelions blossoms didn’t full open up. So in addition to the normal yellow flowers, I added some wood violets, which is Wisconsin’s state flower.
Wood Violets
The chipmunks were teasing my cats today as they ran past just outside the feline leash range. Although one chipmunk missed judged the distance and became a play toy herded around by the cats until I ended their fun and allowed the rodent escape.
Chipmunk Toy
The Virginia Bluebells might be blue, not only in color, but feeling blue because of temperature below freezing overnight and more frosty nights in the forecast.
Blue Virginia Bluebells
After romping and racing across the pasture, the young calf needs a nap in the sunshine.
Napping Calf
The lack of bright colors sometimes allow the green Jack-in-the-pulpit to go unnoticed in the woods, but it is an interesting flower to see. I spotted a few of the them open today but poor Jack might need a blanket with the frosty nights this week.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
