Frogs, fish, deer

It's hard to believe how warm it's been. This morning, I heard a loon call on the lake, about a km away. It's such a lovely sound. The geese have been flying, although there are still some about. Our cardinal brightens up the bird feeder.

Cold nights, below 0 C. with a bit of ice on the goldfish pond, but the frogs warm up, sort of. I loved these two snuggling! I'm ready for it to just get cold.
We're up to 190 ticks this week. I want a cold, cold December, to kill some of them off!



In the meantime, I brought some lake weed into the aquarium. They eat it clean. Caitlin, on her way from the city, stopped at the pet store. She brought me some anchors for the weeds. Little metal bits you wrap around the roots. The silly fish rip the weeds it right out of the little plant pot. I tried again. I buried them deeper, and fetched some more lake weed from the goldfish pond. We'll try again!

nicely eaten!

I've been scooping out the pumpkin seeds for me, and putting the pumpkins back out for the deer. These seem to be the twins, one male, one female. She figured out how to put her hoof on it, rather than sliding across the yard!


I've been experimenting with the placement of the trailcam. This buck, with a broken antler, likes his selfies! Not on the trailcam, but just in font, coyote poo!




Buck antler from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.