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If I recall correctly, June is the month when we sometimes see fireflies.
Last year I saw not one and with the weather being so peculiar now, who knows?
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We always hope for Monarch butterflies and we keep a crop of milkweed for them, but as fast as the plants grow they are being consumed, stripped bare.
Grant thinks is it the work of slugs. Whoever it is has a voracious appetite.
Hopefully, the Monarchs will be able to feast off milkweed in the field below us, but I shall miss keeping watch over their progress.
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The fox kits have not been around for a few days and two nights ago, Peanut was running back and forth, past the house and along the driveway.
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Up and down she went several times as if searching, yet we don’t think those kits are hers as she is usually at the other end of the property.
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This is the fox we’ve seen with the kits.
Quite different.
Every day I realise how much I don’t know about the wildlife I observe and how little I can do to support them.
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Meanwhile…
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Yesterday’s uninspiring and soggy outing took us past evidence of what modern 14-year olds do for entertainment.
Burn down defunct factories. It was scheduled for demolition, so perhaps they were just helping out.
Fortunately, nearby residences were not affected.
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It was hard finding a picture yesterday, but we did come upon a family of Canada geese.
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Emerging from the car for a better shot only prompted the geese to move off and invited a swarm of mosquitoes to descend upon me.
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For once we were killing time because we’d stopped at the eye clinic only to find they open late on Tuesdays.
So we meandered in the murk.
Had we been down this road previously?
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Catching sight of the telephone poles I remembered taking this photo before, though I never got around to posting it.
As I recall that was a grey day as well, which I think does make a more effective image.
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Grant caught sight of a mallard with her ducklings but they moved off before I could focus properly.
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Crops are sprouting.
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It turns out that the field down the hill will be neither corn nor paddy this summer.
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It seems they plan to grow weeds.
A fallow year one supposes.
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Excitement as the day drew to a close and a patch of blue appeared.
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Expecting a rainbow, I went outside.
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But had to be satisfied with interesting patches of light.
I went to bring the suet feeders in, since we know a bear is around.
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On the porch, a bedraggled nuthatch.
“What kind of weather is this missus?”
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As evening set in, mist began to form.
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A moist ending to a wet day.
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Setting the scene for a very damp Wednesday morning.
Which I’ll save for tomorrow.
Thank you, Carolyn, for the update on happenings in your fascinating world of foxes, insects, gees, ducks, slugs, spectacular skies with clouds, but still no rainbow. Tomorrow is another day…
Joanna
When you find something lovely to take pictures of on even a miserable day, it just shows how determined you are to look for beauty in every day – love the Canada Geese family. And even with no rainbow in sight, the light patches were quite interesting!
We finally had some lovely weather yesterday, and made the most of it with a day out at a zoo. Those foxes are very different indeed, it’s easy to see the difference in them. I hope that your murky weather disappears soon.
Best wishes, Pete.