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P52 Week 28: Animals (July 9 - 15)
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ohhhh. yes they’ve come here too but i didn’t know about the red stage
@bondr006 beat me to it . Last year I saw 2 or 3 larva and one or 2 actual mature bugs ; but nearby towns had them all over . Guess It's my turn . Looks like my job tomorrow will be to hunt down and vaporize as many as I can .
we are instructed to kill and then report them. i haven’t seen any yet but know a few have been spotted in my town.
Everyday we learn something : it seems they have not been spotted in Canada yet but I doubt it because we have a government page that says to catch and tell them as soon as they have been spotted
They are not stopping at the border.. and Canada is not that cold place any more
Chickens are fantastic and great personalities. Thank you for sharing!
.. an event of Canada geese life at an apartment complex courtyard pond captured during my early-morning walk today -- the goose on the ground in a territorial defensive posture with one in the water looking to come up where he/she was not welcome.
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I'd love to have a pet chicken or two. I don't think my husband would feel similarly, plus we have quite a few fox around. Does this one have a name?
I love bunnies. I wish I saw them more often, but on the other hand I think most people view them as a nuisance, as I do the deer, and I lose enough plants to deer as it is.
I haven't seen a single hummingbird this season, although my feeder does get emptied. I haven't figured out if I'm just not seeing the birds or if the nectar is just evaporating.
Honeybees will clean out a hummingbird feeder rather quickly once they lock on to it.
And I think we have both bunnies and deer now, and squirrels, and moles. So much for the lawn and landscape!
i just never see anything near the hummingbird feeder. i have quite a few pollinator friendly plants around the feeder where i see oodles of bees; i don’t think they are eating the nectar.
the past few years i’ve used a plastic feeder and the nectar would last a long time, and i would dump it before refilling. my daughter got me a pretty glass one for christmas and i’m wondering if it’s just hotter and encouraging evaporation. so strange.
My husband and I live in a very rural location. We occasionally see coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, owls, and hawks on our acreage so we have to work hard at keeping the chickens safe. As hard as we try, sometimes we lose a chicken to predators. I don't want to sound uncaring because we do care for them but we don't really name the chickens. It makes it less personal if they die. So, we usually just call them by their breed or their color (this one would be "red").
They are scarce here too: the ones I knew and they had names are gone 😟
There is a new one, maybe two, very shy though.
I don't leave the feeder in the summer because there are so many flowers to feed on and the squirrels were drinking the nectar and making a mess all around
Yeah, pretty much everything wants to eat a chicken, so you have to go Fort Knox on their coups and pens. I know someone who shreds all their cardboard and uses it for the floor of their chicken compound. He said between all the scratching and pooping, you'd never know there was cardboard there, but it really improves the soil. He then moves the chicken pen to a new quadrant and turns that old spot into a vegetable plot.
took halley to the garden center. she's famous there (i'm only known as halley's mom, lol). they have the cutest new little cottage for houseplants and vintage clothing. my daughter and i went over the weekend to see the cottage and did not take halley, and she could tell we'd been there by our smell and she was quite annoyed with us. so we made a special trip just for her to go to her favorite place.
Yesterday at a friend's house , a cat with a past...🫢
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Now for something a little different, crawling around on the rocks next to the lake.
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This one got scared and puff it became like a little balloon
Cross posting: Pocket of Light and a bee
This pair actually has 4 cygnets, but two of them were catching up.
About the maximum crop the little OLY TG-6 camera can handle. Of course smoke haze does nothing to make an image seem crisp.
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About the maximum crop the little OLY TG-6 camera can handle. Of course smoke haze does nothing to make an image seem crisp.