Saturday's Critters

 The bird feeders are up! In a rare moment of interspecies cooperation, I noticed two morning doves and one blue jay all eating from the cracked corn tray feeder. The jay took off by the time I managed a photo, you'll have to believe me! 

I had an interesting trailcam capture! A Barred owl...

   

 We've a doe who is hanging about. Not much time left for nibbling leaves! They are falling...

 Butch favours the driveway... 

   

 Barry is still chopping trees down! 

   

 Oct. 17th I spotted a beautiful garter snake! Soon they will be in their hibernaculum and sleeping the winter away. 

 

Cinnamon likes Barry's fallen logs.

 

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Toadstools and Barry!

 Another frost last night. Things are shutting down outside. I needed mittens to put the garbage out the other day.

Little baby toadstools, three of them!

 

I've been wearing my little red winter boots! They are cozy, as I amble through the beautiful forest.

Speaking of ambling through the forest... a coyote.

 

Barry Beaver on the move

 

 He chopped this Aspen sapling down, but didn't remove it. (Lower left corner↙ of the photo.) I thought I'd move it closer to the wetland. Maybe he forgot about it! Or maybe he was chopping up the rest of it for a winter cache. 

Helping Barry!

 

Being helpful, I put the fallen sapling on the hill, near where he is working on the oak tree. It is gone! Maybe it was in the way of his oak tree work! Ain't nature grand?!

Barry, in the summer

Off for a drive! Part 2

We went for a drive last week. Here is Part 1.

 These cottages are on a peninsula. 

This is a really interresting cottage.

We saw Mallards, geese, crows, and heron, but I have to rely on archival photos!

Shallow lakes attracts the birds.

Joe likes the tree canopy. 

Forest, trees, wetland

 The Aspen Grove, pretty much pruned by Barry Beaver and the July 1st windstorm!

With enough windfall, I can see across the wetland.

He is making progress on the oak tree...

Barry's new lodge, covered in mud for insulation:

This morning it is -2℃ and there is frost. Winter, bring it on...

Off for a drive! Part 1

 Joe came home from doing groceries on Thursday, Oct. 15th,  and suggested we go for an Autumn drive. It could be the last of the colours. We were headed to the Old Kingston Road. You know the type, formerly an ambling path through a forest to get from Kingston to Perth. 

It was a wonderful drive, escaping the news, just having a quiet time on back roads.

Cottage country prices are shocking...

Above our price point!
5 BR, 1 bath

Stay tuned for part 2!