Crumbly Acres creatures

Thank goodness for the distraction of Wimbledon! And the forest.

 The porcupine went through the forest.

The frog pond hosts muskrats. They've been eating the native phragmites. 

One year a muskrat family moved in and we hosted them: Guess who had six babies!

The green frog sits in the green frogbit! (An invasive species.)

Frogbit, Latin for frog bite!

The forest canopy surrounds me. It hosts a bazillion bugs. I spotted a part of a poem on FB.

BREATHE

And she stopped...

and she heard what the trees said to her,

And she sat there for hours not wanting to leave,

For the forest said nothing,

it just let her breathe. –  Becky Hemsley

The Eastern Comma butterfly is around. She'll lay eggs in our hops vine. I'll look forward to that. The three black dots identify her.

We also have Eastern Question Mark butterflies, which are very similar. Both have amazing camouflage, and look like a dead leaf when they are folded up. The difference is the little white marks. I don't think I need to lay it out before you! 

As I passed the meadow, the momma turkey was there with her off spring. It surprised all of us!

 

We took a chick into the bird rehab in August, 2019. 

It's wonderful seeing new life. They were in the front yard one year. Aug., 2017.