Things have been mostly quiet on the predator front. I finally gave up and cleaned out the accumulation of guinea eggs after the willow complained about the odor the other day. I dumped them on the compost pile, which I had been avoiding because I didn't want to draw any egg loving critters.
Later that night we heard some screaming before midnight, and I think it might have been coons fighting over eggs or maybe a skunk and a coon having a disagreement over them. But the predatory mammals seem to have learned there is a hot line here after dark and have left the live ones alone.
Not so our friend the barred owl. The Firebird takes care of the geese, and he likes to wait until near dark to lock them in at night. Deepening dusk night before last, I heard a god awful goose yell followed by a loud "HOO!" and bolted out the back door.
A very large owl took flight from the edge of the goose fence, over the pen into the woods. I sent the Firebird right out to lock up the geese. I directed the Willow to look up barred owls in the Audobon Field Guide, and it seemed they preferred smaller prey than full grown ganders. So I assume that the owl was waiting for the mice and whatnot that come out at night to clean up the spilled goose grain...(geese are sloppy feeders)
I have seen small sparrows in the goose pen pecking at the spilled grain, with the geese a few feet away, and it is a funny sight to see a bird a few inches long feeding almost at the feet of a large gander,.
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We rented Noah a week or so ago. Right as the movie started, the heavens opened up and it rained buckets. The sun stayed out. I ran from one window to the next expecting to see a rainbow, but one never appeared. The rainbow is supposed to be God's promise that he will not destroy life with flood again and the origins are from Noah and the Flood.
So I was very taken aback but the torrential rain and sun and no rainbow just as the movie Noah was starting! (I didn't think much of the movie, btw.)
Here is a pic that doesn't really capture what I was seeing out the window:
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The Willow and I were able to catch one of the Firebird's soccer games yesterday. The team played very well, Firebird as stopper all but 10 minutes of the game. We saw the JV game for a few minutes, and it emphasized how far the varsity has come along, almost looking like a pro team in comparison to the JV.
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The Willow doesn't start school until next week, so we have been trying to make the most of the last few days . Tonight we fired up the old wood cookstove out back, the Willow loading and lighting and maintaining it on her own. I made the burgers yum!
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Later that night we heard some screaming before midnight, and I think it might have been coons fighting over eggs or maybe a skunk and a coon having a disagreement over them. But the predatory mammals seem to have learned there is a hot line here after dark and have left the live ones alone.
Not so our friend the barred owl. The Firebird takes care of the geese, and he likes to wait until near dark to lock them in at night. Deepening dusk night before last, I heard a god awful goose yell followed by a loud "HOO!" and bolted out the back door.
A very large owl took flight from the edge of the goose fence, over the pen into the woods. I sent the Firebird right out to lock up the geese. I directed the Willow to look up barred owls in the Audobon Field Guide, and it seemed they preferred smaller prey than full grown ganders. So I assume that the owl was waiting for the mice and whatnot that come out at night to clean up the spilled goose grain...(geese are sloppy feeders)
I have seen small sparrows in the goose pen pecking at the spilled grain, with the geese a few feet away, and it is a funny sight to see a bird a few inches long feeding almost at the feet of a large gander,.
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We rented Noah a week or so ago. Right as the movie started, the heavens opened up and it rained buckets. The sun stayed out. I ran from one window to the next expecting to see a rainbow, but one never appeared. The rainbow is supposed to be God's promise that he will not destroy life with flood again and the origins are from Noah and the Flood.
So I was very taken aback but the torrential rain and sun and no rainbow just as the movie Noah was starting! (I didn't think much of the movie, btw.)
Here is a pic that doesn't really capture what I was seeing out the window:
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The Willow and I were able to catch one of the Firebird's soccer games yesterday. The team played very well, Firebird as stopper all but 10 minutes of the game. We saw the JV game for a few minutes, and it emphasized how far the varsity has come along, almost looking like a pro team in comparison to the JV.
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The Willow doesn't start school until next week, so we have been trying to make the most of the last few days . Tonight we fired up the old wood cookstove out back, the Willow loading and lighting and maintaining it on her own. I made the burgers yum!
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