A Mining Bee and a Mighty Fine Native Dandelion
I‘ve taken a few early morning walks in recent days to find birds at the prairies in the southern Puget Sound region. These are big places that split up the sprawl with a fair amount of sunny, open habitat. They can attract wild things that aren’t typically found in the turf grass and douglas-fir monoculture that surround. They also have a fair amount of interesting native botany to explore for man and beast alike, so of course I keep my ears tuned in on buzzing sounds if t