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Heron Distraction
This picture was taken February 2012 at our pond – first time I had seen 2 at once. This was originally published 01/13/2011 at Darkcargo.com. It is reposted here with the gracious permission of Lady...
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Aquatic Life, Indoors and Outdoors
Unexpected visitor in the living room. The other day I found Tanuki hopping around in the living room – back and forth, back and forth. He was staring intently at the carpet the entire time. At first I...
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Bat Box
Western Long-Eared Myotis. Note puncture wound on his left side. Two weekends ago, I found a dead bat down by our garden. It was laying on it’s back, with several puncture wounds. My guess is that one...
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Planting Water Lilies
Snail beneath a lily in a pot on the porch. When we moved here in 2002, our pond had one lonely water lily, in pink. Over the years it grew. Last year, My Main Man braved the pond scum and placed in 4...
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Swift, Silent Donkey
Tobiah IAmASwiftSilentDonkey IAmASwiftSilentDonkey IAmASwiftSilentDonkey That was my mantra last week early one morning. My Main Man was out of town for a week doing some firefighting training and I...
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Predator Problems
Dead goose We lost our goose Bob a few weeks ago. I’m posting a picture of his carcass here to show that very little of it was eaten, which indicates Bob was killed for fun, most likely by a neighbor’s...
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Bird Knocking
Flicker Folks were very generous with their feedback when this was originally posted. I have gone through and made corrections. Thank you everyone! This bird was knocking on my house, loudly. It was...
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Flycatcher Family
Flycatcher on the fence teasing the dogs. Several years ago, a mud-building nester made a little home under the eaves of the porch. The nest fell, and M3 built a little box out of scrap wood, which he...
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Raccoons & Plastic Eggs
What a raccoon can do to a plastic egg. We got some plastic Easter eggs to try to fool the chickens into laying eggs were we want them. Well, it was more of a compromise. There are places in the main...
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April Snow Showers Bring…..Frogs?
Here is a toad in the snow. It has been snowing off and on this week. And the frogs have all come out of hibernation to sing their songs of lust and procreation to the world….through chattering teeth...
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