Category: Nature Note

This week’s note is about three birds that are invasive and not native to North America._______________The birds described here are

There are about 300 species of dragonflies and about 130 species of damselflies in North America.  Both are found near

I can think of only four plants at our place that are poisonous for livestock.  They are sneezeweed, cowbane, prairie

There are two kinds of bluebirds, the eastern bluebird, found from Oklahoma and east, and the mountain bluebird, occurring west

There are three kinds of toads in the Skiatook area.  The dwarf American toad, great plains narrow-mouthed toad and Woodhouse’s

Have you ever seen a legless lizard? There really is one and we have it in Oklahoma. It’s the slender

The American bullfrog is the Oklahoma State Amphibian.  They are found statewide.  They are also the largest frogs in the

Since I removed my first attached tick last Wednesday, it’s time for an update on ticks and the diseases they

Galls are abnormal growths on the leaves and twigs of many plants.  The oak trees in our area have two

Just about everyone knows what an eastern red cedar is.  It is the wild, native evergreen we see in abandoned