Sunset over our favorite orchard..unedited |
This weather is not kind to people like me. My paternal grandmother suffered horribly from it, my dad does, and the older I get the worse it gets me.
Thus not much posting.
Older doe or nursing big fawns? Or both? She is awfully thin for high summer |
However, we have stolen some time from a broken baler, babysitting, housework, and gardening to
Summer snow storm...Cottonwood seeds |
Of course there have been birds involved but this is not exactly the birding festival season. High points in general include atlasing all the nests and fledglings and shrieking babies in the bushes and trying for photos and audio of as many county species as we can get.
No comment, other than that she is sure a worker |
So far this season in my primary "patch", which I have named Northview Farm House Yard, we have had successful nests of Cedar Waxwings, Purple and House Finches, American Robins, European Starlings (not much of an accomplishment that) Black-capped Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, Baltimore Orioles, Common Grackles (another dubious delight), Eastern Phoebes, and Mourning Doves that I can think of offhand.
Grey Catbird |
We have counted 85 species in the area that includes the house, driveway, the walk over to the barn, and the yards around the house. This is actually somewhat low, because this year I split observations on the farm into two "yards" to be more accurate for the atlas. Thus the back of the farm birds are on another list.
I think this guy may do custom work. We see him and his mules all over |
Last night we took a little ramble and saw interesting things including most of the White-tailed Deer population of the entire county attempting to end it all on the hood of our car. I was actually really glad to get home alive.
Lyker's Pond |
Anyhow, here are a few of the things we have seen when out and about.
And baby makes three....see him back there following the rake that his mama is pulling? |
Stay cool!