Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Originally uploaded by Angie Babbit

I told Kristen Hase, a biologist with the National Parks, that I like that tree down there, and she said, "do you want to come help us cut it down?"

That's the spirit!

Arogos Skipper on Echinecea

During the 1st Annual Marvin Schwilling Memorial NABA butterfly count, we saw many of these skippers on butterfly milkweed and purple coneflower. Skippers aren't something I know a lot about, but apparently this one is fairly rare now that much of the prairie ecosytem is gone.

Arogos Skipper on Echinecea

Originally uploaded by Angie Babbit