Startlement!
Aug. 16th, 2019 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkis when a sandhill crane starts warbling and hollering at his reflection in the front door. Ten feet (~3m) from the open front window. And you didn't know he was even in the front yard. That was yesterday. Earlier today, when I went past the front room, I noticed that there was a crane peering at the house from awfully close up. So I went up to the front door, and he was on the front porch! It's not a very big porch - 12'x8' (~4mx3m) or so.
In other wildlife related news, one of the old plastic birdfeeders broke a few days ago -- I don't know if it was plain old age or if it had help from the wind or a large bird pulling on it (the cranes have been eating out of the bottom openings) -- I went out and the hanger and upper part of the tube were still hanging on the hook, but the body of the feeder was laying on the ground under the feeder, nestled into the volunteers from dropped seed. With a black-and-white critter working on the seeds that had spilled out of it. I didn't realise it was a black-and-white at first, because all I could see was a bit of the white at the tip of its tail and I assumed "bunny", as one does. erm. Not so fast. Fortunately for me, I did not spook the skunk enough, and he trundled off toward the pond, slightly annoyed that his snack time had been interrupted.
Still no rain - the storms that went through the area over the last couple of days have dropped about a dozen raindrops per square meter here. My garden work has been limited to cutting back dead flowers and spreading mulch.
In other wildlife related news, one of the old plastic birdfeeders broke a few days ago -- I don't know if it was plain old age or if it had help from the wind or a large bird pulling on it (the cranes have been eating out of the bottom openings) -- I went out and the hanger and upper part of the tube were still hanging on the hook, but the body of the feeder was laying on the ground under the feeder, nestled into the volunteers from dropped seed. With a black-and-white critter working on the seeds that had spilled out of it. I didn't realise it was a black-and-white at first, because all I could see was a bit of the white at the tip of its tail and I assumed "bunny", as one does. erm. Not so fast. Fortunately for me, I did not spook the skunk enough, and he trundled off toward the pond, slightly annoyed that his snack time had been interrupted.
Still no rain - the storms that went through the area over the last couple of days have dropped about a dozen raindrops per square meter here. My garden work has been limited to cutting back dead flowers and spreading mulch.
