The Metropolitan Field Guide

Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

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Poem by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman   The garden beds I wandered by One bright and cheerful morn, When I found a new-fledged butterfly, A-sitting on a thorn, A black...

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As I continue to read Insect Literature by Lafcadio Hearn, I’m fascinated by his insight into insect life. He wrote in a time when insects in the western world were...

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I’ve been reading Insect Literature by Lafcadio Hearn, an author who lived in Japan and wrote a number of books in the late 1800’s about Japanese culture and folklore. I’ve...

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Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

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Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

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Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

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Here is some new art I did of a Douglas Fir cone I found that had become a sort of nurse log for moss and fungi. It never fails to...

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Here’s a quick illustration of a clione I did recently. A clione is a type of sea slug commonly known as a sea angel and this species, Clione limacina, is...

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Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

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Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

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Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

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