Crumbly Acres has signs of spring

 First, the front window provides entertainment. I am slowly finishing up the last of the bird seed. I was hoping to see the rose-breasted grosbeaks before the bears were roaming. We've a gray squirrel hanging around. I think I can see teats. It is the one I caught on video📹 flinging itself from the bird bath to the feeder. She is persistent. 

I found the Flicker nest! I went back and saw it at work.

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Cinnamon and I went out the back 40. First we visited Fred in the shed.

I went back later in the day and saw Fred looking back at me. Can you see him?

On we went. Cinnamon flung himself up the trees.

The wetland is wet, with lots of invasive European Frog Bit growing on it.

Our frog pond used to be covered in it before the muskrats nested here several years ago. 

We carried on...

Here is a better photo of my garden. 

Labbit Cottontail in the dark under the feeder.

The pair of them are fueling up! 

Apr 26 cottontails from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Docktails by the frog pond

I love my new dock. As I sat, I heard a doe walking behind me. She came out across the pond. The cats love the dock, as well. They watch the bugs, check out frogs hopping (the frogs get away), and then they come back and sit with me. The water is now about knee-deep somewhat deeper in the middle. The lovely little pond plants, European Frog-Bit Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, are invasive, apparently. They protect the pond, however, and give sanctuary to the frogs.



Annabelle and I built a turtle basking platform! Buster came and sat on my lap. See the fallen maple leaves? August is coming to a close, it's cooler at night. Still, perfect days with few bugs and warm temperatures.