Maybe, just maybe a little relief from the miserable heat is in store for the next few days. I got to tell you, folks are getting MEAN. The various weather reporting services are all over the place. But as I write this, it’s 12:45pm and it’s not yet 80 degrees and the humidity is much [...]
Entries Tagged as 'wildlife'
relief?
July 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Sources, musings, wildlife
Tags:baked beans·groundhog·Wytheville Farmers Market·Wytheville Library
little wayne is a weird dude
July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · photos, wildlife
Anne and I are deck people. We have had a deck for most of the last three decades, and during good weather we spend a lot of time on it. At the end of the day, we relax with a drink, often have supper, and do a lot of entertaining there. Basically, the deck is [...]
meet the menagerie
June 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · photos, wildlife
One of the things you learn pretty quickly when you live in the country is that you aren’t the only ones who consider your property home. There are a number of critters who share the land and live on the property full time. Some of them occasionally move into the house with you. A number [...]
spiders and snakes and bugs and slugs
June 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · flora and fauna, photos, wildlife
Tags:black snake·housefly·slugs·spiders
Creek Update
April 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · flora and fauna, photos, wildlife
With the passing of each week, Galena Creek continues to grow cleaner and healthier. The freshwater snails are more abundant and I’ve found what appear to be brown trout minnows swimming around. Though I haven’t been able to photograph any yet, there are also crayfish. New aquatic plants, some quite beautiful, are growing and it [...]
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the return of pleuroceridae
April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · flora and fauna, wildlife
One of the great things about living on the Creek is watching it change and become healthier from the cleanup and conservation efforts we’ve made over the last few years. Earlier this week, I made a rather exciting discovery. Clinging to several of the rocks in the Creek were colonies of freshwater snails. The reason [...]
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this little feller needs help
March 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · wildlife
At some point in the near future, I plan to do a longer post about feral and free-roaming cats, but this little kitten needs help now. Last month, someone abandoned this one and two others in front of the Ft. Chiswell Laundromat. One of the private agencies that deals with this problem was called, and [...]
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peeeeeeeeeeehew…spring is in the air
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · wildlife
Crossin’ the highway late last night He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right He didn’t see the station wagon car The skunk got squashed and there you are! You got yer Dead skunk in the middle of the road Dead skunk in the middle of the road You got yer dead skunk in [...]
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birdshots
February 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · photos, video, wildlife
Last month after the second big snow of the season, we started tossing out birdseed figuring the poor starving little things would literally flock to our yard. After all, their normal foodstuffs were buried under a foot of snow. I flung a few handfuls of seed off the front porch and waited to see the [...]
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22 Days and Counting
February 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · musings, wildlife
As I’ve said before, I’m not much of a winter person, so the arrival of the first blooms of the year always gives me a much needed emotional boost. The crocuses pictured above actually pushed their cheery little blooms up two weeks ago. Judging from their location, I suspect we have some hard working squirrel [...]
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