My climbing black snake must be getting bigger...I found this!
I was so excited to see mama woodpecker feeding her baby on my plumeria, right outside the window my computer is in front of. I slowly made my way to the open side door, and hid my body from sight, just putting the camera around the jam to get these shots..it was quite awkward!
For those of you who don't already know...squirrels & blue jays do not like safflower seed, so that's all I put in my feeders! It's pretty cheap at the local feed store, and I get all sorts of birds on it without having to lose it to the jays & squirrels!
That is one long snake skin!!
You know, we have the same type of Woodpecker hammering at the neighbor's rain gutter and last week he woke us up with a very loud ratatatat hitting our metal rain gutter.
This Turtle was marching through the meadow yesterday (at our Pennsy place) and disappeared into the pond. Hopefully he/she will be visible this Summer. I love it when they walk on the bottom of the pond and you can see the track on the water surface by the pattern of the dislodged bubbles.
The size of the pond? Perhaps roughly half of an acre.
Here are some older pictures without the Gazebo, which we had built last year.
And this is what Turtle tracks look like. You can see by the distance of the two bubble lines how big the Turtle is, how wide the legs walk apart on the bottom of the pond.
Oh Ursula, that is a gorgeous place!! All those real trees and real woods! The whole thing reminds me of when I lived in New York.
I love the misty first picture the best. Do you ever swim in the pond? When we lived in NY the people across the street (who had the bat in the non-movable window I previously mentioned) had a pond we kids would swim in...and when we got out we had to check eachother for leeches, only ever had one on us though.
Never realized that's what turtle tracks look like...very cool!
Yes, we do swim in this Pond, it is quite deep!
