status report
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-30-0088.html
Because the population of the Peninsula needs drinking water, we have a swamp & will keep having a swamp.
Good deal for us.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Watch List - crossing
Sunday trip: Richmond to New Kent, late, dark
white/grey possum crossed slowly Marshall Street just east of Lombardy
kitten dashed panicked across Interstate 64 east of Nine Mile Road
Monday trip: Richmond to New Kent, before dusk
5 bunnies, one after another, loping road side on Landing Road
white/grey possum crossed slowly Marshall Street just east of Lombardy
kitten dashed panicked across Interstate 64 east of Nine Mile Road
Monday trip: Richmond to New Kent, before dusk
5 bunnies, one after another, loping road side on Landing Road
bunnies
The bunnies must start work about 7am.
6:45am no bunnies.
7am two hunched over their workstations.
6:45am no bunnies.
7am two hunched over their workstations.
Friday, June 27, 2008
wood duck house hunting
March 1, 2008 wood ducks appeared then moved on.
First the female, then the male.
Checked out the duck house. Didn't meet their expectations.
Pam on the next street reports she has two pairs with young sailing down into the swamp.
Not us.
water
Late afternoon kayaking in Mathews VA in early June.
Tide low. Light golden. Water gentle.
Tide low. Light golden. Water gentle.
Ah, kayaking.
Watch List week ending June 27, 2008
prothonotary warblers
owl feathers two mornings - one wing, one tail
thrashers
kingfisher
bluebirds
chickadees
mockingbirds
wrens
sparrows
bluejays
cardinals
bald eagles - two roosting in front of nest
bunnies, bunnies, bunnies - all sizes
litter of three small racoons tiptoeing, scrurrying, huddling, frolicking
skunk smell
2 inch praying mantis eating bugs off the window
skink in studio
skink on dock
eastern kingbirds
woodpeckers - multiple varieties including redheaded at Jamestown
swallows
bats
beaver swimming along dock at dusk
same beaver along base of cypress trunk
bull frogs leaping into water
red winged blackbird parents & fledgling fussing & flying
sliders walking up from & down to the river
sliders digging nests & laying eggs - 4 on Sunday
raided slider nests
turtles swimming
turtles sliding from trunks into the river
murder of crows watching a slider lay
blood red banded moth
flying beetles
dragonflies - blue, green, yellow, red - some as big as birds
hummingbirds - not too many (what could be too many?)
owl feathers two mornings - one wing, one tail
thrashers
kingfisher
bluebirds
chickadees
mockingbirds
wrens
sparrows
bluejays
cardinals
bald eagles - two roosting in front of nest
bunnies, bunnies, bunnies - all sizes
litter of three small racoons tiptoeing, scrurrying, huddling, frolicking
skunk smell
2 inch praying mantis eating bugs off the window
skink in studio
skink on dock
eastern kingbirds
woodpeckers - multiple varieties including redheaded at Jamestown
swallows
bats
beaver swimming along dock at dusk
same beaver along base of cypress trunk
bull frogs leaping into water
red winged blackbird parents & fledgling fussing & flying
sliders walking up from & down to the river
sliders digging nests & laying eggs - 4 on Sunday
raided slider nests
turtles swimming
turtles sliding from trunks into the river
murder of crows watching a slider lay
blood red banded moth
flying beetles
dragonflies - blue, green, yellow, red - some as big as birds
hummingbirds - not too many (what could be too many?)
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