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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'wildlife'
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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The Bear Facts
September 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · wildlife
Last month when I was down by the creek, I thought I saw some bear scat. I wasn’t sure, because I’ve only seen it once, and that was two years ago. But the folks at the New River General told me that there have been black bear sightings in the area for the last year [...]
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Homicide: Life on the Creek
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · photos, wildlife
This year, I’ve allowed Galena Creek to become overgrown, partly because I wanted to see what would happen with no human intervention, and partly because I’ve been concentrating on other things around here. Recently I took my trusty brush cutter down to clear a path thru the wildflower meadow to the Creek, and found this: [...]
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Goin’ Buggy
August 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · wildlife
It’s a funny thing about blogging. You don’t always end up writing what you started out to write. In my case, I planned to do a foodcentric blog about Southwestern Virginia with a little music and folk art thrown in for good measure. And I still plan to do that. But for various reasons I [...]
The neighbors come a’calling
August 5th, 2008 · No Comments · wildlife
Just outside the entrance to our humble little cottage is a game trail that runs from Galena Creek up Chestnut Ridge. I’ve seen all manner of wildlife make the trek up and down the trail. The other morning, some of our more vocal neighbors passed by….