Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.
The dowitchers, that is. A couple of times each year, in the fall and in the spring, our little 30+ acre wetland gets visited by hundreds of dowitchers! I posted about their arrival last September, and we’re excited to see that they’re back! They’re accompanied by a large number of Least Sandpipers and quite a [...]
We found this little guy along the base of our wrought iron fence this afternoon. He was on the wetland side of our property, and had probably hopped across from the lake. We studied him for a bit, then put him back in the brush by the lake so he’d have some cover.
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Back in May, two humpback whales appeared in the river behind our home.
This morning, there were goats totally covering the levee! They’re being used to mow the weeds, and can apparently mow down anything in record time.