Birds & Butterflies

Thousands of butterflies migrate through the ranch in the winter. All year long butterflies hover above the grasses.

As you walk along the many paths through the ranch, you will be surrounded by red-wing blackbirds, cardinals and white-wing doves. There will almost always be a hawk, osprey or cara cara soaring above. As you approach a pond, you will often scare a great blue heron or egret into flight. Owls haunt the darkness as you sit around the firepit at night. Hummingbirds whiz about the many feeders surrounding your home. Green jays, finches, titmouses, painted buntings, orioles, flycatchers take turns swooping into the feeders out your window and off the porch. On winter evenings, the sky fills with sandhill cranes and geese that settle in the fields across the road. This is just a sampling.

Cara Cara

Sandhill Crane

Crested Titmouse

Birds identified also include: