Looking green!
Greener and greener! The garden is beginning to produce! I started most everything from seed, so it lags behind other gardens a bit, but the wait has been worth it! […]
Birds
Rehumaning
Yup. After about a week of being eaten alive by bugs; shredded and impaled by raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, Devil’s walking stick, locusts, and greenbriar; endured thousands of demands from hungry […]
A busy busy spring
I took on too much. I foster baby wild birds and release them back into the wild each spring. This is the fourth year. The first year, I had 6 […]
Eastern Phoebes and a Black Cat
I have a pair of Eastern Phoebes nesting in the eave of the shed. I will take this as a sign that parts of the compound are being integrated fully […]
My Wren Friend
This Winter has been all about Juncos and Nuthatches. It’s a huge flock. There are a handful of chickadees and three doves that regularly partake in the peanuts and sunflower […]
Chickadee
We did actually get a good bit of snow over the past 48 hours, hard to say how much total because it is fluffy and considerable drifting has piled it […]
Snow Day Prep, and Latin with the Starlings
There was much to do this past Fall. I was getting the main structure ready for occupancy inspection and had to shore up the 250′ fence, in addition to the […]
Wildlife List Winter 2020-21
Wildlife spotted at Mons Domus this season. Mammals Whitetail Deer Groundhog Gray Squirrel Opossum Unidentified rodent living in my car. Chipmunk! First noticed returning on March 11 Birds Junco- daily […]
Loneliness Prevention Plan, kind of.
Solitude can be peaceful, productive, and empowering, but there’s little to gain from loneliness, and much to lose. Loneliness erodes confidence, self worth and can lead one to compromise in […]
Wildlife List Fall 2020
Wildlife seen at Mons Domus this season Mammals Whitetail Deer Groundhog Red squirrel Gray squirrel Eastern Chipmunk Birds Junco House Sparrow Catbird (released) Purple Finch House Finch (released) Gold Finch […]