One year I had this pretty yellow and black butterfly hanging around my mums.
Another time I discovered that these fuzzy caterpillars love basil.
And these striped caterpillars really love parsley.
Found this little dude on my bell pepper plant. Possibly a katydid?
I've also found frogs, chipmunks, leaf cutter bees, cucumber beetles, hornworms (ick) and lots of other bugs.
So today after potting basil and parsley seedlings out on the porch, I walked around the side of my building to put my gardening stuff away in my garage and a weird movement on the ground caught my eye. At first I thought it was a small lizard wriggling around in the wood chips, which would have been in odd thing to find in this area. I looked closer and saw it was a baby bird, pink and scaly with its eyes still closed. The poor thing seemed to be in distress and was struggling to crawl around with its spindly legs and stubby little featherless wings. I didn't see a nest or a parent bird around, and had no idea how to rescue a baby bird, so I called the humane society. They advised me to place the bird on a towel-nest in a small box and they would come out to pick it up. Within 15 minutes this little guy was on his way to the Bird Center of Washtenaw County. I hope he survives!
I never would have seen him if I hadn't been out working on my plants.
Bird Center of Washtenaw County
Humane Society of Huron Valley
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