Showing posts with label woodland jumping mouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodland jumping mouse. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 April 2021

🐸Happy critters🐇

  We just went into lockdown again last week. We managed to get all our healthcare needs attended to. One of us had a footcare appointment, a blood test, physiotherapy,  an X-ray (for his sore neck), and a vision checkup. All went well. 

I managed to go to the dentist, while JB picked up his regular homeopathic meds from the gym. The gym was closed, but they have essential services, like massage therapy, housed in the building. Our naturopathic doctor has an office there, as well. She leaves him his meds at the front desk.

Our healthcare professionals have had their first vaccine dose. My massage therapist, our dental office staff, as well.


Restaurants are surviving doing Take Out only.

We tootled on home for lunch. JB had picked up Subway sandwiches for us. 

I visited the trailcams and found lots of critters. They are all happy with the green grass. The critters are much more active these days. It's wonderful to see. That fresh hope of spring.🐰

Food fight: this is why it is illegal here, and in many other countries, to take in wild animals. They are wild. Butch food fight   


Talk about 'quick like a bunny!'
 

Quick like a Bunny part 2.


It made it to the backyard, if it is the same one!
 

backyard bunny from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

April 4th, Porcupine  still has a leaf stuck to his butt! Here is a daytime photo.


He hauled out the skin of the pumpkin that has sat here since the fall. There were a few seeds left. 

 

He came back again, and this time was marking the bushes. Porcupine marking     


The skunk has been around, as well. Again, archive photo! They are so fascinating. It wandered by one summer day, oblivious to me and my camera.



 

The woodland jumping mouse is back! It's like a deermouse, but with long tails. And, of course, they jump!


 

We knew it was coming. The 🐸frogpond  is awake, with mosquito larvae dancing in the warming water.

 


Zola is still alive and doing as well as she can. She's putting a bit more weight on it.
 


I've been watching for the wood ducks on the pond. 

They nest in the three boxes I have put up. They are flighty things. If I come around the pond from the far end, I can spot them, but they take off, being frequent flyers. I videotaped them, as I wasn't sure if they weren't just regular mallards. Nope, once I looked at the video, I realized they had taken off, came back, then crawled up on the land. When I went down to the pond the next day, they were in the wetland, on the other side of the path. wood ducks 

 

Visit more critters! Saturday's Critters #382

Saturday, 26 May 2018

Flowers!

Maggie Magnolia is nearly ready! You'll note the chicken wire to protect her from the deer!


So is this one, nearly ready, and I don't know what it is. I moved it two years ago, and it's finally going to bloom.


Candy tuft or Iberis sempervirens


Periwinkle

violets

Then there are mice friends...



Leopard frog: they can be brownish or a brighter green.


lilacs


Bob V with bleeding heart

Monday, 26 September 2016

Mice Friends

Awhile back, somebody found a Woodland Jumping Mouse. It did not make it. I found it on the driveway.



They found another! It got away, though. Two cats, me with the net. It is very fast!


I found a mouse skeleton the other day.


Woodland mouse from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.