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I've not been here since last spring but I thought I'd share some highlights
of the year so far. I have still not updated my camera to something that costs more
than this fixed income boy can afford. Sorry about that. I'm still using a P&S Canon SX 60.
Beaver from last March. I thought I had posted these beaver pics here but cannot find the thread.
He had a 3 day visit the end of March
before we scared him off. Too many nice trees right
next to the pond that he could topple in a night.
His tail doubles as a chair and a table
Beaver and Wood Duck. Another first for me.
Wood Duck
We had 3 female wood ducks that had clutches of 9, 8 and 6
for a new record total of 23. Previous record was 3 females
with 18. They left early this year and were gone by the first
week of September. They left a few weeks earlier this year then
past years. An omen of a long winter this year?
This guy and I, although we almost see eye to eye, do
not like each other. You know why.
Small - Medium - Large
Mergansers
Eagle
Green Heron - Turtles
A group of curious turkeys checking out the muskrat
Turkey - Wood Duck
Twin Bucks
I believe this turtle is a huge soft shell. We've seen a few in the
pond, but none that were the size of this one. I estimated that it's almost
3 foot long from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. It has a very long
skinny neck.
Every fall about this time, I buy some minnows from the hatchery where
I get the fish for our pond. Two gallons of fathead minnows keep the perch
happy through the winter, although the bass and hybrid gills will also eat some.
This Kingfisher showed up the day after I put the minnows in the pond and he seems
to be quite efficient at feeding on them.
Kingfisher
We had a long flowering season for our Water Lilies this year
They started in June and we had 5 colors this year. White, red,
pink, peach, and yellow. The first three are done but the peach
and yellow are still showing their flowers, although we have had
a couple of frosts recently and a few snow flakes that happened
recently. I believe their days are numbered with the weather lately.
Turkey Amore
Baltimore Oriole - Named after Lord Baltimore's Coat of Arms colors
We had two successful hatches of these and we fed them grape jelly and
oranges from early summer through the second week of September when
they all flew off to their wintering grounds.
Orphaned fawn. My wife volunteers at a shelter for Australian cattle dogs. Blue Heelers and
Red Heelers, although they take in others breeds as well. She got a call the end of May about an abandoned fawn that the mom had abandoned in their yard. They didn't touch it for three days hoping mom would come back at night to take him away. She had been taking care of it for about a week prior to that, and then disappeared.
The fawn was getting hungry and thirsty and with no mom, the people were concerned for the fawn and wanted to get it to a rescue center. In the interim, they fed it some goats milk to keep it going with hopes of mom returning.
After the call, my wife arranged to meet the woman and take it to
a rescue center about an hour away. WoJos God's Grace wildlife rehabilitation.
This one was the sixth one they had taken in this year. This shot was taken at the parking lot where they met up with a lady from the rescue center. She said it looked great and was sure it would be ok. After rehabilitation, they are released. She called this morning to let us know that it was doing great, and was a young buck they named Sage.
Some of Wife's artwork.
Rock Art - Acrylics
Acrylics - Donated to the Cardigan Nationals
Pastels - Pet Portrait Compilation
_
We used garden fabric in our 60' x 120' garden, along with drip tape
irrigation and had our best garden ever.
We had around 16 5 gallons of buckets of apples that we pressed for
cider, and then canned a bunch of apples and applesauce.
Pumpkin seeds
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of the year so far. I have still not updated my camera to something that costs more
than this fixed income boy can afford. Sorry about that. I'm still using a P&S Canon SX 60.
Beaver from last March. I thought I had posted these beaver pics here but cannot find the thread.
He had a 3 day visit the end of March
before we scared him off. Too many nice trees right
next to the pond that he could topple in a night.
His tail doubles as a chair and a table
Beaver and Wood Duck. Another first for me.
Wood Duck
We had 3 female wood ducks that had clutches of 9, 8 and 6
for a new record total of 23. Previous record was 3 females
with 18. They left early this year and were gone by the first
week of September. They left a few weeks earlier this year then
past years. An omen of a long winter this year?
This guy and I, although we almost see eye to eye, do
not like each other. You know why.
Small - Medium - Large
Mergansers
Eagle
Green Heron - Turtles
A group of curious turkeys checking out the muskrat
Turkey - Wood Duck
Twin Bucks
I believe this turtle is a huge soft shell. We've seen a few in the
pond, but none that were the size of this one. I estimated that it's almost
3 foot long from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. It has a very long
skinny neck.
Every fall about this time, I buy some minnows from the hatchery where
I get the fish for our pond. Two gallons of fathead minnows keep the perch
happy through the winter, although the bass and hybrid gills will also eat some.
This Kingfisher showed up the day after I put the minnows in the pond and he seems
to be quite efficient at feeding on them.
Kingfisher
We had a long flowering season for our Water Lilies this year
They started in June and we had 5 colors this year. White, red,
pink, peach, and yellow. The first three are done but the peach
and yellow are still showing their flowers, although we have had
a couple of frosts recently and a few snow flakes that happened
recently. I believe their days are numbered with the weather lately.
Turkey Amore
Baltimore Oriole - Named after Lord Baltimore's Coat of Arms colors
We had two successful hatches of these and we fed them grape jelly and
oranges from early summer through the second week of September when
they all flew off to their wintering grounds.
Orphaned fawn. My wife volunteers at a shelter for Australian cattle dogs. Blue Heelers and
Red Heelers, although they take in others breeds as well. She got a call the end of May about an abandoned fawn that the mom had abandoned in their yard. They didn't touch it for three days hoping mom would come back at night to take him away. She had been taking care of it for about a week prior to that, and then disappeared.
The fawn was getting hungry and thirsty and with no mom, the people were concerned for the fawn and wanted to get it to a rescue center. In the interim, they fed it some goats milk to keep it going with hopes of mom returning.
After the call, my wife arranged to meet the woman and take it to
a rescue center about an hour away. WoJos God's Grace wildlife rehabilitation.
This one was the sixth one they had taken in this year. This shot was taken at the parking lot where they met up with a lady from the rescue center. She said it looked great and was sure it would be ok. After rehabilitation, they are released. She called this morning to let us know that it was doing great, and was a young buck they named Sage.
Some of Wife's artwork.
Rock Art - Acrylics
Acrylics - Donated to the Cardigan Nationals
Pastels - Pet Portrait Compilation
_
We used garden fabric in our 60' x 120' garden, along with drip tape
irrigation and had our best garden ever.
We had around 16 5 gallons of buckets of apples that we pressed for
cider, and then canned a bunch of apples and applesauce.
Pumpkin seeds
_________________________________________________
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https://soundcloud.com/belleswell%2Faxcess
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