Flower Hill Farm Retreat

Beauties of the Night ~ Barred Owl

Carol Duke — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:59:21 +0000

Barred Owls, Strix varia, may have been howling and hooting as year-round residents of this hillside in Western Massachusetts for more than 11,000 years. Fossils of their species, that many years old, have been uncovered in Florida, Tennessee and as far north as Ontario. These raptors of night are typically hidden in layers of darkness […]

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Beauties of the Night ~ Luna Moth

Carol Duke — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:35:59 +0000

There is beauty hidden within darkness. Beauties of the night are curious creatures and none more than the stunning Luna Moth. We humans are creatures of habitual repetition and it is a reliable assumption that by nightfall most people are indoors with lights on and doors closed to the outside world. When we accidentally or […]

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White-tailed Deer ~ Doe and Fawn

Carol Duke — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:25:16 +0000

The gardens at Flower Hill Farm Retreat hold much more than just plants, shrubs and trees. Every day when I walk out into the gardens I never know what surprises await me. On June 4th I was walking down into the south field to check the Tree Swallow house when I heard a familiar yet strange […]

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A Bouquet of Warblers Continues In Plumule Expanse

Carol Duke — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:25:00 +0000

December sighs and drops whiteness about the land. The last few weeks of 2013 are at hand. Another month unfolds and now a landscape covered in downy snow and ice lies across these hills of Western Massachusetts. I have a new installment of my ‘A Bestiary . . . Tales from a Wildlife Garden’ up […]

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