Another “must visit” on this trip to Wellington was the Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre. They are very well known for their captive breeding efforts of rare and endangered birds, and my particular interest was the Campbell Island Teal – a small flightless duck that had become extinct on Campbell Island, but which survived on an…
Lisa noticed this on the outside of one of our UPSTAIRS!! windows this evening. The very cunning frog was hanging out (well was “sticking” out) on the window pane, ambushing bugs attracted to the light inside the window!!! Excuse the apparently dirty window. (click any thumbnail to open a slideshow) A photo gallery of some…
While watering the garden at the back of the house this morning something caught my eye… In case it’s not obvious in this picture what I saw, here it is again… And a much closer view reveals… A gallery is below.
Visitors seen around the yard today include the habitual doe and her 2 bambis, and some “bugs” on the milkweed plants beside the back porch.
I looked out the kitchen window this morning and “spotted” this scene. another “bambi” was off to the left. They left before I could get another photo.
A few weeks ago I posted a couple of photos of the wrens who were getting ready to move into the Wren House hanging in a tree beside our garage. Well they did move in, and while we were away, the produced at least 3 chicks. I took a few pictures of them being fed…
Our neighbour gave me a wren house for Christmas 2 years ago. I hung it in a cherry tree right by our garage last spring and a wren moved in and we got wren babies. Last Christmas the neighbours gave me another wren house which I hung on the porch, and this spring there is…
We live in farming country, with our property almost bordering a very large field/paddock. (See https://lisaandroger.com/2009/05/our-farming-neighbours/). Today as I went by I noticed a flock of large white birds circling over the corn field – turns out they were swans. shows a shot of the nearest pond, with Mallard ducks, Canada geese and the white…