I've just finished marking every object in every corner of the yard.
Sorry I haven't been able to blog, but it's a big yard. Except for eating and sleeping, I had to make it clear to Orange Cat who's who and what's what! Do you get my meaning?
The campaign, you will be relieved to know, has been successful: there have been no recent sightings.
But as is often true, you get one thing done and something else comes along! We had a whole new kind of intruder the other day...a herd of turkeys! Unfortunately, I was sleeping pretty sound the night before, so I didn't see them. I found these tracks as I walked down to the brook.
All I had to do is get up on Oom's shoulders and I could see this wasn't just a turkey or two strolling through the yard but a turkey-thon.
They came up from the brook...those are all turkey tracks!
Even a turkey can slip on ice!
And several fanned out every which way into every part of the yard.
They're bigger than me...but they are birds. I wonder what it would be like to meet a turkey?
As you can see the snow is almost gone, the brook is running almost free of ice. We've seen a Rough-legged Hawk looking pensive in the wind, a striped skunk looking for a mate, I'm beginning to shed a bit, and the Chickadees are definitely territorial.
Everyone is thinking spring but I'm wondering if we'll get another blast?
