Our local fox friends showed up today. They were looking for cheap auto insurance. Well not really but they were very interested in the truck for some reason. I love when the foxes show up especially when they come so close to the house. This little guy was interested in the cat and the cat […]
Filed under: Wildlife on October 18th, 2008 | 45 Comments »
This insect was stuck on the screen. Isn’t it neat? But what is it? Anyone know. I wish there was a web site that listed pictures of insects when you don’t know the name. Otherwise how do you figure out what it is?
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Filed under: Wildlife on October 10th, 2008 | 33 Comments »
From tree frogs to turkeys, there’s wildlife everywhere! Last night my younger son came running into the house. He looked like he had seen a ghost. He had just heard, at very close range, the terrifying scream of one of the young foxes that were raised in a den nearby. He really thought it was […]
Filed under: Wildlife on September 10th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This little guy was making his way up my bureau. Tree frogs are amazing little creatures. They have suction cups on their feet enabling them to cling to just about anything. Unfortunately these little guys have a way of congregating all over the road after a hard rain and it’s almost impossible to avoid them […]
Filed under: Wildlife on September 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The first time I saw a Luna Moth I was awestruck. What a beautiful insect. Up until that time I had no idea moths could be so lovely. I figured they were always the typical white boring moth that everyone has seen at one time in their lives, banging around under the lamp shade. Unfortunately […]
Filed under: Wildlife on September 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of our neighbors has a few monarch butterfly chrysalis’s that she is tending. Who would have thought that these things would be so beautiful. They almost look like jewelry with beads of gold around their circumference and occasional dots of gold. It is thought that these function as light receptors but no one […]
Filed under: Wildlife on September 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We surprised this spotted lizard one night when we were checking on pregnant sheep. What an amazing looking lizard with such bright yellow spots. Does anyone know what kind of lizard this is?
He was probably hiding under the stacked hay bales in the barn, and he skittered across the floor when we turned on the […]
Filed under: Wildlife on August 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This time of year is usually pretty busy in the red fox world. Where we live we often see them. Hearing them is a whole different ball of wax however. It is the scariest most blood curdling, spine chilling sound you are ever most likely to hear in the real world. You get used to […]
Filed under: Wildlife on August 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A bucket of fish caught by my boys this week gave me an idea for a Halloween costume. Why not dress up as a bucket of fish? I think it would be unique. My kids are now too old to go trick-or-treating but every once in a while we get invited to a costume party. […]
Filed under: Wildlife on August 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When you think of New York, do you think about guests like this by your back deck?
We were greeted with this cute wild turkey family, waddling across the back lawn. I took these photos from inside the house. Too bad the screen door wasn’t pushed all the way over to the other side. It looks […]
Filed under: Wildlife on July 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
That’s right, they are in Central New York, but they are not roaming in the woods. I recently discovered that they are just 15 minutes away in Smyrna, in a spacious sanctuary. I plan on visiting as soon as I can especially since I heard that they wolf have pups.
It’s called the Wolf Mountain Nature […]
Filed under: Wildlife on July 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Black Lake has Pike, Crappie, Large and Small Mouth Bass, Muskellunge (a very odd looking fish) and Walleye as well as pan fish such as Blue Gills and Yellow Perch. The Bass fishing season opened last Saturday but it looked like there were less fishermen on the water than usual. Perhaps this was because of […]
Filed under: Lakes, Wildlife on June 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
We spied this cormorant sunning himself on a rock when we were up at the cabin last weekend. I call them weed birds and the fishermen hate them. They eat all the fish and literally eat into the fishing industry in these inland lakes.
Other than a few boat rides we had a lot of work […]
Filed under: Misc, Wildlife on June 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Does anyone know what this moth is? I can’t find a site that doesn’t make me go through about 50 links just to get to the photos. In a previous post entitled A Rare Find, I wrote about a Luna Moth, another beauty.
I found this one on my front lawn back in June of 2005 […]
Filed under: Wildlife on June 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We were up at the cabin this past weekend in 90 plus degree heat I may add, and our neighbors had discovered to their delight, that a pair of Orioles was nesting right outside their deck.
They could see all the activity from inside their house through the deck door in the comfort of their chairs. […]
Filed under: Wildlife on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
Most of the time I don’t have to travel very far to have fun with the New York wildlife, even if it is man made so to speak. When we put our pond in many years ago, we stocked it with large and small mouth bass, and some sterilized carp for grass control. We also […]
Filed under: Wildlife on June 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday the dog was clearly playing with something small and living in his mouth. We discovered that it was the tiniest of baby rabbits and extracted it from what is thankfully a soft labrador mouth. Look at those cute little ears.
We brought the dog in the house and put the rabbit down in a sheltered […]
Filed under: Wildlife on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
These little snapping turtles were found in nearby field washed up from a nearby steam. Mama was nowhere in sight and they would have been quickly eaten so we took them in, let them grow awhile and released them back into the river. I hope they made it. They got so big so fast […]
Filed under: Wildlife on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
On my drive to Norwich today or rather on my way back home, I passed no less than two ravens! One was flying low right over the car and the other was about five miles further up the road in a hay field feasting on some carrion. There’s no mistaking these big birds for crows. […]
Filed under: Wildlife on May 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
I am not too fond of geese on our pond as they really make a mess on the shore but they generally don’t stay too long. I was delighted though to see that the latest family to take up residence had 6 goslings in tow.
They were such cute fluffy yellow babies. As I was […]
Filed under: Wildlife on May 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
