Yesterday after my psychiatrist appointment I went to one of the little local free zoos with nonreleasable native wildlife and watched all the birds eat breakfast.

Well, I say all the birds. All the birds had breakfast available, but the owls were mostly blinking slowly and wondering why the hour of half past ten in the morning existed and, if it ( Read more... )

I heard the sandhill cranes again today!

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More sandhill cranes!

Omigosh!

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Some of the sandhill crane migration passed by today! They were moving pretty low - I got a good look at their flight posture as they flew over and on. But of course, I didn't really need that: there's no mistaking that call!

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I found a leopard frog in Mom's water garden today!

It did not like me looking at it. I feel that's probably fair.

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Earlier I had to move a really big spider. The spider really did not want to move.

And that was pretty much my budget of conflict for the evening.

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Yesterday I saw a soft shelled spiny turtle in a local river. I was on an observation deck maybe fifteen feet up the limestone bank, and I looked down and saw it swirl upwards out of the deep brown water. It stuck its distinctive, pointy snout out of the water, took a deep breath, and dove down again. Because its shell was broad and round the ( Read more... )

So. I just hand caught and released a starling that had somehow gotten inside the house. (How? I honestly do not know. It must have come in one of the doors but I don't know when or how.) Its heart was beating so fast against my fingers, but once I had it it didn't fight me at all. It didn't even try to bite me. It just looked around while I held ( Read more... )

Holy cats I just saw the sandhill crane migration!

Well. At first I heard the sandhill crane migration. But then I went out and watched them.

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