Wildlife

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Come closer to the lives moving through the garden.

The garden has wings, claws, scales, fur, silk, and very small feet.

​​​It is home, shelter, hunting ground, nursery, resting place,

feeding station, and passageway.

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Mourning doves gather at the windows. Bees vanish into flowers or may even tumble onto a gardener's hand for safety. Anoles watch from behind plant pots. Spiders build between stems. Foxes move quietly at dusk, while owls and hawks observe from above.

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The Wildlife pages introduce the creatures who live in, visit, and pass through this garden - not as decoration, and not as a list to collect, but as participants in a shared place.

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From Blur to Individual

At first, we may see only a bird, a bee, or a spider.

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Then... we look again.

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We notice which dove returns.

Which squirrel approaches boldly and which waits near the fence.

Which spider chose the same rose.

Which bee favors the beebalm and which bold dragonfly favors the

same flowered tree as his huntng ground.

 

The blur becomes an individual.

The individual becomes a story.

Story makes room for understanding, and understanding makes compassion possible.

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This is how Olive & Edith approaches wildlife: curiosity before judgment and relationship before assumption.

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Inside Each Wildlife Portrait

Profiles may include natural-history information, identifying features, habitat, behavior, food and host plants, seasonal appearances, and the role a creature plays within the garden.

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But they may also include what no field guide could know: the particular place someone rested, the behavior that made an individual recognizable, the neighbors observed nearby, and what happened next.

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The whole life of the garden is welcome here - including predation, competition, loss, survival, and change. Understanding does not require us to make the garden less wild. It allows us to meet wildness with greater care.​

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