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Our Refuge Manager at Seal Beach NWR asked his volunteers to consider adding some native milkweed to the native plant garden for the monarch butterfly. So, they collected some milkweed seeds and cultivated plants using cuttings from their own gardens.
Right now, the seedlings are growing in the nursery, but this caterpillar's mom decided that any milkweed will do!
Happy Pollinator Week, everyone.
Photo: Rick Nye/USFWS
We released 7 snowy egrets today at the Tijuana River mouth lagoon.
In one pic, our refuge manager even captured a Ridgway's rail crossing the channel behind them (look close!).
Many were making foraging efforts upon release and learning how to walk in mud, so they're doing good so far.
"Thanks to the folks at Sea World San Diego's avian center, these birds can get a taste of the wild and maybe some will survive to adulthood," said Refuge Manager Brian Collins.