With the rains and the warmth our spring frogs have emerged! iNaturalist app identifies this one as a cricket frog. Last year was a light year for froglets. The year before you had to watch your step. We’ll see how this year plays out.
Update on Sunrise: some time in isolation with no nesting areas seems to have done the trick to break Sunrise from her broodiness. I did not have to resort to a wire bottomed cage. Whew!
Our outdoor/indoor cat Sophie came prancing into the house with a field mouse! A live one. Very live. Amazingly, after praising her for being a good hunter, she let me take the mouse from her. I took the little guy out to the meadow to let him go. Then washed my hands!!
The trail cam caught a fox sneaking in for a drink at the trickle that is our stream in the back woods. We think it is neat to see foxes on the trail cam, especially when the chickens are safely tucked away in their Fort Knox.
I found this little guy hiding under my frost blanket. Not sure what he will emerge as, but looks a little like a butterfly, or maybe a skipper? Or a pink dementor. We decided not to disturb him.
I am keeping an eye (with the trail cam) on the deer that visit our back yard. After all, we’ve seen does and bucks and spring is coming up, so maybe there will be a fawn?
