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April 03 2013

  • Beefed up berms to preapre for expected rain.
  • 1.9 inches of rain!
  • Observed erosion control efforts and made adjustments where needed
  • Spread Black oil Sunflower seeds along the roads for Turkeys
  • Saw Hummingbirds in courtship dance, swooping high into the air in large arcs.
  • Saw very small baby Gecko eating moths on the screen door
  • Planted Buffalo Grass and Blue Grama seeds
  • Caged Antelope Horn milkweed to protect from foot taffic at barn
  • Installed home made bird house

Home made bird house installed

Posted in Census, Habitat, Erosion, Shelter, Food, 2013 Journal

March 30 2013

  • Added old rotting boards to berm in cactus field for erosion control
  • Extended berm into the woods from the speed bump on the road
  • Removed invasive pond plant
  • Saw 30 Pine Siskins

Pine Siskin in blooming Mexican Buckeye tree

Posted in Census, Habitat, Erosion, 2013 Journal

March 20 2013

  • Removed small Box Elder tree overgrowth along river bottom land, arranged limbs on the ground on contour
  • Refreshed Hummingbird feeders and added three more

Posted in Habitat, Food, 2013 Journal

March 09 2013

  • Removed numerous small Box Elder trees along river bottom
  • Saw flock of 12 geese at the river
  • Heard Hummingbird

Posted in Census, Habitat, 2013 Journal

February 18 2013

  • Saw Fox
  • Removed invasive pond plant from man-made pond with tranfer water pump, sprayed the muck from the bottom of the pond onto high ground around the land.
  • Saw Wild Turkeys roosting at dusk
  • Fed Deer Milo
  • Contibuted to "Great backyard Bird Count", a project of Cornell Lab of Ornithology,

www.birdcount.org

  • 30 Wild Turkeys
  • 20 Lesser Goldfinch
  • 2 Carolina Wren
  • 50 White Winged Dove
  • 12 Mourning Dove
  • 12 Northern Cardinal
  • 4 Black-crested Titmouse
  • 4 Carolina Chickadee
  • 2 Chipping Sparrows
  • 2 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  • 2 Eastern Phoebe
  • 1 Red Tailed Hawk
  • 12 Black Vultures
  • 8 Turkey Vultures
  • 20 Pine Siskin
  • 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch

Juniper Hairstreak Butterfly

Posted in Census, Habitat, Water, 2013 Journal

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