i feel that. Seems the ladies and kiddos come out during daylight hours most rather than night time. I’m considering leaving the gates open during the day for them when we do make a fence
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Word has definitely gotten out to the locals about how there’s a lady that shares her food and water and doesn’t try to chase them off. This one came real close to me to check me out, got some water, and left.
The Ravens have been flying closer to me too and i think that’s pretty cool.
Everyone may think differently but to me, if I have more than I need, i don’t mind sharing.
I’ve asked the birds to take the whole berry instead of pieces of them and i swear some of them listen because some started doing just that instead of pecking. But now the wasps and hornets cleanup the berries for us along with the bunnies and whatever decides to wait in the forest line for us to go back instead in the evenings.
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Butterflies love these tilthonia. These are just variegated frittilaries but they also attract monarchs and tiger swallowtails.
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Hummingbird falls salvia I have growing in a hanging basket near my porch has been a magnet for these guys (guess the name fits). First year growing it but for sure not my last.
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I have no idea what this is. Some kind of wasp? It was in my green house and caught a very big hobo spider from a dark corner. Then, it drug said spider (brute force as the spider fought) up the side of one of my greenhouse aquariums to soak the spider in the water. To soften it? By the time the spider was up in the water it stopped fighting and seemed to go limp. Maybe it was hit with some venom? Never seen such a thing.
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Careful pear pickers my pears have off the charts high sugar content this year. My pollinators take care of me and i take care of them.
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I could not have better news than this. A swarm of honey bees took up residence in an old barrel in my pear orchard.
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I had some bees in my shed behind a pack of roof shingles. They were NOT very happy when I mopved them outside my shed. I got stung by a few of them.
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These are some type bumbles it looks like. In zone 6, they may struggle a little bit if moved outside for the winter if it’s already really cold where you are
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It wasn’t cold when I moved them out. It was actually really the hottest part of this summer when I moved them out. They were buzzing me as I was getting my mower in and out of the shed. I was afraid if I left them in the shed they would end up stinging my family when they would go in the shed. So I decided to get their nest out of the shed. I transplanted it outdoors to an area that they could start their nest elsewhere. I got stung getting it out as fast as I could. Better me getting strung rather than my family.
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Last year the slugs were so bad in spring that I gave up trying to grow vegetables and instead made a little pond-garden with native plants. It has more than one happy resident:
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Sorry, another picture form me, this one from a few months ago (the frog was last weekend). It’s a common darter on our rooftop garden, featuring our not-so-wild cat.
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This hawk or a couple different hawks have been hanging around my backyard a lot closer than I’ve ever seen before. I’ve also noticed my backyard bird feeders are not being used the last couple weeks at all. Maybe has something to do with it. I think it’s a copper’s hawk.
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I call those feeders “hawk feeders”. People soon learn why.
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Could also be a sharp-shin
Because it’s fall you may be seeing
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Hawks that are descending from Canada, many hawks aren’t strictly migratory (some are) but will often drift south of the boreal forests in the winter. This is especially noticable with species that are rarer or aren’t typically at the temperate latitudes like northern Goshawks
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Maybe a juvenile or several, birds of prey have high first year starvation rates as they try to figure out how to hunt, as they get hungrier they start to do more and more atypical things
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