Musings

Snake yesterday. Rodent today.

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I’m feeling recycled today. Thus, this photo is from a month ago.

Kudos to the KW for a decade of blahgging!

* Not the walking kind….

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Little guy/gal came within two meters of us, up in the grove. Over in the field, mom-doe was snorting/whistling/calling.

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I have not heard that the pesticides, weather, mites, whatever the toxic soup of factors is that’s been battering the honeybee population has been affecting the bumblers*. We had several visiting our bee balm today.

* Maybe not, but habitat problems have to be in play, at minimum….

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Five-lined skink, I think, that I spotted the other week in VA. Love the blue tail…that may mark it as a juvenile?

Hockey? Baseball!

Different channels.

And, I venture, a different mindset to boot.

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This lovely flutterby was enjoying the rays and I could see how tattered s/he is, I assume from a long trip north from somewhere far away.

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I’m being casual even though my hair was removed last week, and I don’t like my bony body image. Notice how cool I am with this gras, though.

Scary thing: as I was composing this, maybe three and a half hours after our farm visit, I found a tick running up my neck. Running is better than stopped. Now headed for the shower & a detailed TICK CHECK….

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During our trek today, we drove under what seemed like horizontal columns of insects, small flies or gnats or something soft-bodied. They seemed to favor the space above the road/blacktop, but, fortunately, most of the time above our vehicle, too. Except for some spots. Our Prius now has new organic matter decorating it.

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Sometimes when I return from my wanders the Guru asks what wildlife (he means critters in general, I think) I spotted. Today I saw two horses (with police-riders), the Canada goose family by the drainage lake (now down to one gosling*), Piper the cat, several dogs with their walkers, wild birds…. And yet it was a pretty quiet day.

* Hypothesis: second gosling was a casualty of carnivore hunting, perhaps by cat, rat, stevedore, dog, or raptor; however, no feather-spot detected in cursory perusal.

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Ms/Mr GB Heron, center, just in front of the Muscovy trio.

Right there on the walkway, the GB Heron—perhaps since dawn? Dunno. We didn’t speak.

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