I live near the Connecticut and Farmington rivers, I see bald eagles several times a year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Saw this the other week some kind of fly. Thought it was a hornet. Nothing fancy like some of you guys but saw it while splitting.
Hoverfly/Good news bee. Curious little things, they are always hanging out with me when I'm outside. Sent from my LML212VL using Tapatalk
The deer run. I rarely see anything more than a white triangle disappearing between distant trees. They're not curious at all. They'll come eat oak tops when I'm done and long gone and leave presents in appreciation. Hawks, woodpeckers and other birds. Maybe some bugs. I've found low IQ clueless two-legged trespassers every now and then.
Back in August I was cutting up an old felled oak and was about to take down a unhealthy looking red maple for use as firewood in the maple arch. Out of the red maple jumped this northern flying squirrel onto a hemlock right above me. She watched me for a while. I watched her. Having owned a wildlife control business for seven years now I turned the saw off and listened intently for the sound of little ones. Sure enough, with my ear to the trunk of the red maple I could hear the faint sounds of juvenile flyers. Left that tree standing as a snag in the woods until Mother Nature decides its time for it to come down. I’m sure she was able to finish raising those young ones and they’re off jumping around at night now. Or they’ve long since become food for the pair of barred owls that live in the hemlocks behind the house.
I wasn't cutting farwood, but I was building my house in 2012. These characters walked past me every morning and in the afternoon they all trooped by going the other way. This went on for weeks. They paid me no attention at all until one day I said, "Hey! Turkey!". The old man turkey stopped in his tracks and took a long look at me before they walked off. But they never again walked past my building site, and I never saw them again.
