Category: Birds
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The importance of PERSERVERANCE, Lines giving way, and culprits eating plants.
At first glance, you think the moral of the video below is “don’t bite off more than you can chew’. However, if you stick with it, you realize that this video is about perserverance. Don’t know the origin, but it truly says “If at first you don’t succeed, TRY, TRY AGAIN”! The fishermen filming this…
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Where are the hummingbirds?
Fourteen days ago, we were seeing 60 hummingbirds at the same time on the feeders. Today, we are seeing a total of five. Two species (Ruby-throated and Rufous) are native breeding hummingbirds in Mississippi, although other species also visit Mississippi. The annual migration time is adjusted slightly every year depending on the weather and storms.…
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Preparing the fields, pumpkins, beans, watermelon, deer, bear, turkeys, coyote, camping, turtles, family pictures.
It is time to disc the fields for planting. The fields are disced to break up the plants and solid ground. When there is a forecast of rain, we will till, then spread seeds. The seed mix that we choose contains a mixture of plants that will grow at different time of the year to…
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Beautiful Weeds, Visitors (wanted and unwanted), Deer, Turkey, Family Pictures!
The white flowers below are known as Late boneset, a species of Bonesets (Eupatorium). Other names are Lateflowering thoroughwort, Fall Boneset, and Late eupatorium. This plant is classified as a weed. The plant type is HERB (although I am yet to find a use for it, other than it may help our bees since it…
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Shocking the pond, Watermelon, and Fishing
In managing a bass pond, it is necessary to know what type of fish are present, as well as the size and weight of these fish. This process does not count the actual fish, but rather a sample of the fish are measured and weighed. The sampling information is used to estimate the numbers, species,…
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Dahlia, Hummingbirds, and Melons
The Dahlias have started blooming again now that the cooler weather is here. By cooler weather, we mean high 80’s and low 90’s during the day. Bruce took some slow motion and real-time videos of the hummingbirds at the farm. The hummingbirds are going through 32 cups of nectar a day- that is 8 cups…
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Trail Camera Pictures with turkeys, deer, white heron, hogs, and fawn. Also wasp, goats, and family.
Trail Camera Pictures- Turkeys, hogs, deer, and a fawn. Video Below: Buck, coyote, fox, and fawn. Slides Below: A Metric Paper Wasp is on the basil. This wasp will share its nest with similar species and will reuse its own nest. This wasp prefers to feed it larvae soft bodied insects like caterpillars. The other…
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Trail Cameras reveal our visitors: Bear, Bobcat, deer, hogs, turkeys, and egret
We collected the trail cameras cards to review the recent pictures. We think this is PAPA Bear (below) roaming the trails at 7:47 in the morning. We would prefer not to cross his path. Mr. Bobcat is consistently seen on the same trail camera. It looks like the trail camera on Wagon Wheel took his…
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Pumpkins, Watermelons, flowers, grapevines, and goats.
This is the large pumpkin in the garden by the fire pit. As promised, we starting using a tape measure on the pumpkins and watermelons. This is one of the newer pumpkins and measures 28.5 inches from stem to bottom. Pictures 1-3 in slideshow below are of the same pumpkin as above. Picture 4 is…
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Bobcats, Bears, Deer, Pumpkin Harvest, Corn, Watermelon, Beans, Fruit Trees, Flower seeds, and a few Antiques
We picked up the trail cameras. Our bobcat is getting bigger and roaming at dusk. Flip though the slideshow pictures below from the trail cameras. We also found dancing deer, a black bear cub, female deer, and some hogs roaming at night. This video of the bobcat (below) is also from the trail cameras. How…