July unfolds as it should

I took a deermouse, a small one, away from Cinnamon. Putting it back in the garden, I thought it safe. 

I found it, again, and it startled me! It was on top of the plant stand. There is no food there. It scampered down.

Two days in a row I've been gazing skyward and spotted the merlin fly over with a chipmunk or something. Tuesday, I heard a commotion,. The baby crows are still quite vocal.  Just as I put down the the video camera, the merlin popped out of the forest canopy, chased by a crow.

I thought that once the snow left us, Oregano, our feral friend, wouldn't be here. There are potential meals all over the place.  Lo, and behold! He was eating a part of a bagel I'd thrown out. oregano 1  

  

Not only that, but he must have followed the wetland shoreline, and was down in the meadow. Oregano  

  

You'll recall I found Blond Butch with two kits a few weeks ago. Here she was with three kits. They had a brief fight over the bagel pieces. Blond Butch & kits 

  

Deeper in the wetland, Momma deer and fawn. Apparently, the fawn needed a bit of a clean up! Fawn doe buck  

  

The other day, sometime in June, I spotted the male rose-breasted grosbeak on the railing. I didn't have a camera handy. This time, it was the female! My feeders are gone, of course. There are too many critters about, including Butch and the bears. female grosbeak  

 

We're in for some rain, a strange long weather system going east. You can tell from the built up ant hill!

I cleaned and drained our kiddie pool yesterday. Today's high is 16 C. Not particularly conducive to swimming! 

Inuk leader Mary Simon named Canada's 1st Indigenous governor general

The big news in Canadian politics is that PM Trudeau has named an Innu to be our new Governor General (GG). (The previous one, a former astronaut) resigned for being a bully to her staff!) The GG is the Queen's representative in Canada. Debating the need for that would be moot, as it is a ceremonial role. She sounds like an amazing person, speaking English and Inuktitut.