Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, Minneapolis, MN < http://www.minneapolisparks.com/default.asp?PageID=4&parkid=340 >
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary
, the oldest public wildflower garden in the nation, celebrates its 100th birthday in 2007.

Wildlife   Groundhogs (Woodchucks)

Plants
Spring

1. 
"Spring Ephemerals"
     Snow Trilliums   060409 (5 sec)
     Pasque flowers (Pasqueflowers) 西洋オキナグサ (Arboretum, Chanhassen, MN, 060427)
     Hepaticas
 雪割草  070415 (4 sec)
     Bloodroots
     Virginia bluebells
     Trout lilies
     Dutchman's breeches

2.  Showy Ladyslipper  (Lady Slipper, or Lady's Slipper: Minnesota's State Flower*)  050612  ( 6 sec)
    
     Yellow Ladyslipper (Lady Slipper, or Lady's Slipper)  060521  (3 sec)


Fall
Virginia Creeper vines turn red  - 4 sec

Virginia Creeper vines turn red (Up Close)   - 4 sec

Burdock Seeds
vs. "Velcro"


Controlled Prairie Burning (野焼き)

* Showy Ladyslipper < http://www.state.mn.us/portal/mn/jsp/content.do?id=-8542&subchannel=null&sc2=null&sc3=null&contentid=536879483&contenttype=EDITORIAL&programid=9227&agency=NorthStar  >

FYI: On Saturdays (From April through October), Eloise Butler Wildflower & Bird Sanctuary gives two naturalist guided birding tours. Naturalist Tammy leads Birding II while Naturalist Christine, Birding I.  The birding tours are awesome!  ---  Joe, a novice birder.      Tips for English: bird-watching = birding, bird-watcher = birder

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