November 04 2002
Continued to arrange hay bales on contour in well pasture - approximately 1556 feet total
Posted in 2002 Journal, Erosion
November 02 2002
- Treated fire ants with Logic in the spring
- Treated individual mounds in the fall
Posted in 2002 Journal, Predator
October 30 2002
- Planting plan, around house and in cages throughout
- Desert willow
- Lantana
- Carolina Jessamine
- Agave
- Yaupon
- Mexican feather grass
- Lemon mint
- Flame acanthus
- Cenzio
- Evergreen sumac
- Seeds: seed balls to be used throughout
- Continue to remove box elders and KR bluestem (by hand)
Posted in 2002 Journal, Habitat
September 27 2002
- Kingfisher
- Cardinal, baby at feeder
- Turkeys, approximately 2 dozen roosting at river
- Red tailed hawk, 2 at river
- Hummingbird
- Wren
- Mourning doves, one dozen at barn
- Chickadee, at feeder
- Titmouse, at feeder
- Scrub Jay
- Coral snake, red, yellow, black stripes, 1 1/2 feet long, moving deliberately across trail to river behind barn towards river, disappeared under leaf little and log
- Turtle in river, may be the same one released there last year
- Owl dropping found in house under construction
- Leopard frog, 2 at well
- Frog egg mass in river
- Lizards
- Deer
- Cat, black, near bard (plan trap)
- Raccoon tracks and scat
- Rabbit
- Squirrel
- Yellow jacket nest destroyed in walls of house
- Garden spiders
- Bass, one foot long
- Mushroom, unidentified, near yucca at driveway
Posted in 2002 Journal, Census
September 25 2002
- Removed 20 box elders along river trail, approximately 2000 sq. ft.
- Revegitation plan:
- Protect volunteer walnut and bois d'arc
- add yaupon holly
- elderberry
- sycamore
- Brush: secure tree brush tied onto stakes with wire, on contours at river bottom, to prevent downstream damage (will wait until winter when flowering plants have finished)
Posted in 2002 Journal, Habitat