Just a few shots while walking about the gardens a couple days ago. There is a bud of one variety of daylily just added to the garden last year and the flowers of perhaps Stella d'Oro. Birds are active in various ways... beginning with a chase scene featuring the Chestnut-Sided Warblers while a Cedar Waxwing seems to be meditating on the blueberries... perhaps hoping it will make them ripen quicker... a baby Robin hidden in the old apple tree is perhaps alarmed at my eyeing it and is eyeing me right back... it fledged the next day. Our fields are dotted with black eyed susan, yarrow and milkweed and cottontail rabbits are aplenty! I Shot (wish) both of these in the south field not far from one another... maybe a father and bunny... Why has the Gray Fox let me down so?? Where is cousin Coyote? The lovely single rose was inherited along with the giant Rock Maple trees... wild honey bees who reside in the middle tree, are busy gathering milkweed and verbascum pollen. The garden is a very engaging active community of living creatures surrounded by a sea of air and light.
You are Welcome to Visit and Explore the diversity of a New England Wildlife Habitat offering twenty-one acres of rambling hillside gardens allowed to go wild, fields and forest. Spectacular Butterflies, Expansive Sky and Views. Birders Paradise!
Birds of Flower Hill Farm
Nearly Seventy Species Featured by Families
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For thirty years, I have been farming/gardening, observing and documenting a twenty-acre New England hillside paradise, which includes organic wildly cultivated rambling gardens, fields of wildflowers and organic blueberries, forest, fabulous views and expanse of sky. My greatest joy in working with the land is seeing how my farm has evolved into a habitat . . . home to a diverse community of wildlife. My blog is a journal of all the comings and goings of the flora and fauna here. All the photographs featured are taken at Flower Hill Farm ~ unless noted otherwise.
All photography and text are sole property of Carol Duke/Flower Hill Farm. Unless labeled otherwise all photographs are taken here in the large sky, fields, forest and gardens of Flower Hill Farm.