Wild Bergamot just Starting to Bloom

Currently blooming in the garden

• Prairie Smoke (receding)
• Columbine\
• Swamp Buttercup
• Canadian Anemone
• Purple Phlox
• Prairie Ninebark (just starting.)

Fern at Linwood School Park

Also spotted: Wood ducks, Red Squirrel, Raven, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bluejay, Black-capped Chickadee, Eastern Bluebird

Coyotes howling over the weekend

Morning Cloak Butterfly spotted

Sandhill Cranes heard over Carlos Avery N of Wyoming, MN

Enormous bumblebees seen in the Wild Bergamot

Temps only in the 70's.  What an unusual summer.