Archive for 'Habitat' Category
Habitat Control
- No cattle grazing on site
- Reseeding etc.
- In swales by hand.
- At draw - pecan, possomhaw holly, big bluestem, little bluestem by hand, four o'clocks behind barn, turk's cap, goldeneye.
- Along roadside - four o'clocks, goldeneye, bushy bluestem, little bluestem, buffalo grass, oak, turk's cap
- Raccoon draw - pecans
- Bluff edge - butterfly white flower
- River shore - cypress
- Tipi pasture - buffalo grass with leaf litter and compost.
- (See seed list to be used to make seed balls.)
- Forest Management
- Pruned and cut cedars the entire length of draw (from north fence to bluff), mulched and spread on roads and trails.
- Pruned and cut cedars throughout along roads. Left some brush piles.
- Cut and collected cedar poles along river trail to edge of warbler world.
- Marked cedars with pink tape for future removal.
- Marked cedars to be pruned to allow ground cover with orange tape.
- Cut baby cedar growth throughout with loppers
- covered red oak seedlings with branchy cedar brush to protect from deer browse.
- Cut and grubbed roots of Chinaberry tree at bluff edge. Left skeleton standing.
Posted in
1998 Journal, Habitat
watersto_jennystone Flora Observed in 1995-96
Trees
- Cedar Elm - abundant large
- 'Cedar' Juniperus virginiana - abundant, a few mature tress, good cover for all wildlife
- Live Oak - abundant, deer like these, resprouts in April, cage seedlings from deer
- Post Oak
- Bur Oak
- Mesquite - coming up at pasture well
- Bummelia - large one below, smaller ones on edge smell good
- Bald Cypress - 60-80 ft. tall at river front
- Texas Persimmon - abundant black berries, attracts birds, raccoon
- Spanish Oak - red leaves in fall at lower road (cut cedars away from these)
- Black River Ash - below
- Hackberry - scattered
- Mexican Buckeye - on rock bluff, propagate elsewhere
- American Elm
- Box Elder - 3-leaf, maple-like, many below, found chewed stick, beaver teeth marks
- Pecan - large below, transplant elsewhere, near draw sprouting from fallen tree
- Red Mulberry - below, propagate elsewhere
- Chinaberry - remove
- Sycamore - at water's edge
- Leatherleaf Dogwood - more!
- Ashe Juniper - a cedar tree, single trunked
- Escarpement Black Cherry - sprouting many trunks from fallen tree in Red Oak grove, propagate
- Black Walnut - below
- Basswood - below, big round leaf, reseed up top
- Dollar Ash
- Wafer Ash
- Skink Ash
- Hill Country Redbud
- Mexican Plum
- Kidney Wood - deer like???
Wildflowers
- Baby Blue Eyes - many blooming in early spring below
- Blackfoot Daisy - likes rocky ground
- Bluebonnet
- Columbine - red, late April bloom, on slopes in shady sites, on rock bluff
- Heart shaped leaf - vine scattered near draw
- Indian Blanket
- Mexican Hat - pasture well
- Mullein
- Nettles - below
- Pink Primrose
- Prairie Verbena - short, purple flower cluster
- Purple Coneflower - planted seed below
- Purple Thistle - pasture well
- Rain Lily - good smelling white flower, pops up after rain, scattered throughout
- Sunflower - below
- Turk's Cap - red flowers and fruit for hummers and birds, collect seed for planting up top
- Two-leaf Senna - single yellow flower, daisy-like, quail and dove eat seeds, deer don't eat
- Yellow Columbine - planted seed below
- Wild Onion
- White Water Lily
- many other wildflowers unidentified
Grasses
- Big Muhly
- Bushy Bluestem - extra fluffy, lone plants on river island, reseed in draw up top
- Curley Gramma - teensy gramma
- Drop seed - seeds tucked in sheath
- False Tridens
- Tall Gramma - scattered throughout (NE)
- Hairy Hexmonia
- King Ranch Bluestem - exotic, pull these out
- Little Bluestem - red stem, fluffy tops, for turkey area
- Love Grass - note 'braided' seedhead
- Paniculum - 'witch grass'
- Seep Muhly - single seed head
- Sideoats Gramma - throughout
- Silver Bluestem - silver, hairy, elongated seed tops (looks similar to KR Bluestem)
- Slim Tridens
- Three Awn Caristida - throughout
- Windmill grass - pasture well
Other Flora
- Agarita - abundant, attracts birds and bees
- Cenizio - creosote bush
- Elderberry Bush - below along river's edge, help propagate at other river fronts for birds
- Four O'Clocks - jungle below, bees, butterflies, hummers
- Frostweed - throughout, tall like ragweed but square stemmed
- Giant Ragweed - large plants at river bottom
- Greenbriar - below, in Cedar thickets near well
- Maidenhair Fern - below on bluff face
- Mushrooms - large variety, orange half moons on fallen logs, ruffled cream colored etc.
- Passionflower Vine
- Poison Ivy - deer, scattered
- Possomhaw Holly
- Prickly Pear Cactus
- Rainbow Ice Cactus - pretty pink flowers
- Western Soapberry - in lower clearing
- Virginia Creeper - 5-leaf vine, turns red in fall, abundant below
- Wild Grape - propagate these throughout
- Yaupon Holly - bluff area
- Yucca - scattered throughout
Posted in
1996 Journal, Habitat
Hay Barn Pond
Posted in
Habitat
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Refreshed all Hummingbird feeders
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Fed Raccoons dog food
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Rain and a cool evening from Hurricane Alex
Posted in
2010 Journal, Habitat, Food
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Mulched and cut brush throughout, left mulch in driveway
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caged young oaks with 10 foot wire cage in a circle
Posted in
2010 Journal, Habitat
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