Pine Siskins!

 

Canadian artist!

 

The Peak of Mount Mansfield

American Cardinal, male

 

It's Town Meeting Day in Vermont!

 

listener will be helping to count the vote.

Another accolade for Shiloh...

Shiloh was to be awarded this at the end of 2025.

It wll hang at the homestead throughout the year.

The award was renamed to honour him.

 

Welcome, March!

Spinnaker is so excited that the rodents are waking up from Winter's sleep!

Fun Fact: Red squirrels frequently tunnel through snow, often creating elaborate networks to navigate between food caches, trees and feeding areas.  These subnivean (under-snow) tunnels help them conserve energy, stay warm (around 32ºF), and escape predators, as they can travel under a foot or more of snow.

See ya, February!

Carolina Wren (We had a pair of them!)

 

Clay Leaf

Lovely photo by my dear friend Ginger showing me that she kept the Clay Leaf pin I gave her

many years ago.  It was made my another dear friend of mine, Shirin, decades ago. 

My goodness, I'm feeling rather old.  ~ listener

Four Starlings (Flock of 60!)

 

Sky Blue

Hathaway on Rodent Patrol

       

This gorgeous Barred Owl is, we believe, a female, as she's huge and the females are larger than the males. She returned as sentinel on our fence after a storm. So, I checked in with one of Shiloh's colleagues, who confirmed that Barred Owls hunt rodents and aren't much interested in birds.  This was further confirmed when a pair of White-breasted Nuthatches braved the scene to eat at our feeder.

Nap Time for Mizzen

 

Nap Time for Spinnaker

🥳 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛❤️❤️ 🎉

Second Puzzle of the Week

 

First Puzzle of the Week

At the Weekend Protest

 

    

 

Democracy Day! 🇺🇸

Surely, this is what Washington and Lincoln would want for us today.