South End water feeder was starting to suffer from all the crud in the water – pulled it out, soaked in vinegar and now we are good to go – nice clean and steady supply of water.
WildLife Activities
Parent class of all wildlife activities
Straightening Bird Nesting Boxes – Aug 2013
Looks like we must have had vultures trying to nest in our nest boxes – they were all so skew and seemed to almost happen overnight, okay maybe a tad over dramatic 🙂 Spent the day driving around, pulling up boxes and resetting them into the ground.
Strip Mowing
Managed to get 8 hours of tractor seat time in this week mowing down broomweed before they seed. Land always looks so nice after a ‘haircut’
Turkeys
Looks like another successful breeding season and are starting to see baby turkeys (poults) around. I came across a hen and her poults near the pond – at first I didn’t see them and we all got quite a surprise as I stumbled on them, lucky they were just...
Useful bug identifier
A useful I’d site Bug Guide
Spring
When we purchase our property the then owner mentioned that the pond (tank) was spring fed. Based on quality of water and the fact that it held water way better than surrounding ponds we had no reason to not believe this to be true. The other day while dashing...
Snakes!
We don’t get to see many snakes although we know they must be out there. Some images of Garter and Rat snake.
Trail camera shots down at water tank
Various images taken down at water tank by trail camera:
Filling bird feeders
Never fails to amaze how sneaky the squirrels and racoons are. I had to beef up security on one of our feeders as they were emptying it overnight. Doing bi-weekly checks and fills.
Seeding – May 2013
Had several pounds of native seed that the mice or rats got into so decided to rather sow them and take our chances – rat food don’t grow, only breeds more rats! Sowed seeds thicker than normal as I didn’t know condition of seed. The mix that I had...