PGT Butterfly Walk – Saturday August 2nd – Please attend!
The purple spike flowers of Prairie Blazing Star are reaching peak bloom. That will help attract butterflies for the Butterfly Walk that will be held next week. The walk is … Continued
Plein Air Painting at the PGT
Don’t be surprised if you stumble upon a painter at the Prairie Garden Trust in the next 3-days. Callaway Plein Air selected the PGT as one of the locations for … Continued
500 Tennessee Warblers!
Tim Barksdale pointing out another bird at The Point I’ve been birding with Tim Barksdale at the Prairie Garden Trust the last two days and we’ve seen a lot of … Continued
I was wrong about Vireos!
Birders at the PGT For years I’ve dismissed Vireos as birds so drab that it wasn’t worth lifting my binoculars to see them. Julie Lundsted has set me straight. This … Continued
PGT Birdwalk
20 people spent the morning birding at the Prairie Garden Trust. I think everyone enjoyed themselves. Perfect weather and lots of migrant birds helped. Highlights for me were getting good … Continued
Cold Enough for Real Ice
Matt Barnes This seems like the coldest winter for a couple of decades. It’s so cold that we are getting real ice on the creeks, ponds and lakes. Often they … Continued
PGT Visitors on Magnificent Days
The past two days brought the most perfect, sunny, comfortable weather I’ve ever seen for a Missouri June. So we were incredibly fortunate to also have three groups visiting the … Continued
Fish Fry at the PGT
Lorna welcomed about 50 retirees from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) to the PGT for a fish fry today. Lorna worked at MDC for almost thirty years before she … Continued
Spring Wildflower Walk
George demonstrating that the leaves of Sensitive Briar close if you touch them. George Yatskievych told us many wonderful plant stories on the PGT Spring Wildflower Walk today. Everyone was … Continued
PGT Bird Walk Highlight
The highlight of the bird walk this morning was the Yellow-throated Warbler. Everyone got to see the bird up close up as it worked around the branches in an … Continued