I'm Back

I must confess that this blog has not been published as often as I would like. I still have my nature adventures and programs yet have not had the discipline to journal as I intended - so rather than write a list of excused I am going to sum up my naturing over the time since we came home from KY.

At MIDDLE CREEK this last week (during the Wild Fowl show and one visit since I have seen many great blue herons - several great egrets - lots of gold finches & bluebirds - our "pet" red tail and many turtles. Ducks are Mallard, Black, Woodies and Shovelers (early this season). Canadas are mostly year round residents so far. and no snow geese yet. A few butterflies are around yet - I got good pics of a beautiful snout yesterday - my first with the camera. The tour road closed for the season on Sep 15 as normal. School groups have started returning and the feeders are not yet up and filled but I am anticipating this soon.

In my mind I had planned a trip to Bombay of Wednesday but my wallet was not willing to go that far. One of the great things about nature as a hobby is that it can be and is found everywhere.

I promise myself that I will blog more regularly since I am the one who writes and the only one who reads this blog no one, save me, will know if I keep that promise.

GAS PRICES

Gas priced are keeping us much closer home - we have not been to the shore preserves since early spring. So middle Creek is only 25 miles away and when we get the urge to go naturing we end up there often. Wednesday Sept 4 was a good day we had a picnic lunch with two new "nature buddies" near sunfish pond. On Segloc road we saw a juvenile red tail who would not leave his perch for anything - I got within 30 feet and took several hundred pics. He is a beauty - I will try to get some more pics on the blogs soon. The ponds got several inches of much need rain so conditions are improving. Monarchs seem to be scares this year - we had two pupate and one did not make it. In looking over the net others in this area are saying the same but thankfully other areas are getting larger numbers.