Wildlife

[poliphilo]

The first time I stepped out this morning I saw a heron fly over. Herons in flight have a boxy look- like one of those square-nosed early aeroplanes.

The second time I stepped out I saw a baby rabbit on the lawn. Rabbits have been digging in the flowerbeds and eating the sunflower seedlings.

Almost every time I look out the window I see pheasants. There are four of them now: an adult male, a young male- who is only just beginning to acquire his finery- and two hens.

Comments

[ocean_pearl]

Aww... baby bunnies!! ❤

[poliphilo]

I know, but they have little respect for our garden.

[ocean_pearl]

Rabbits usually eat anything.. I had one and she ate my clothes... lol

[chochiyo_sama]

Yesterday, I took my mother for a drive in the country. We saw an elderly gentleman alone in a boat on the lake fishing. A fat little muskrat ran along the side of the road as we drove past him before leaping into the ditch and disappearing into the brush. It may have been a pregnant lady musk rat. Hard to tell.

Later we saw a mature bald eagle sitting in a field picking at his belly feathers with his beak. It is always shocking to see how huge those birds are when you see them on the ground.

When we drove by the swamp, we saw the pair of swans who return every year to raise a nest full of babies, a bunch of loons who apparently stopped there to rest on their way farther north, and a lot of mud hens, ducks, and geese. Generally there is a blue heron and some egrets, but didn't see any of them yesterday.

On the way back home, we saw the same bald eagle, just hanging out in the plowed field looking around.

The park across the street from my house is full of squirrels, robins, black birds, and children who are NOT maintaining social distance as they climb all over the playground equipment.

[poliphilo]

No eagles here, but we do have kites and buzzards.

And lots of small birds of prey hover over the roads, on the look out for small beasties in the verges and hedgerows- and for roadkill of course.