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NellieBelle Posted - May 11 2016 : 09:54:25 AM
Living in the country has it's own pleasures, and then there is the occasional added reward. Not exactly a chimney swift, but a wood duck is welcome too. ;)Not to clear as I had to take it through the screened window. When I opened the door to get a clearer view, he flew off. His mate next to him in flight.
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CloversMum Posted - May 12 2016 : 8:53:25 PM
How fun!
txbikergirl Posted - May 12 2016 : 05:27:34 AM
well, it is a beautiful thing despite the havoc it will wreak with nature's ways at janets farmstead!
NellieBelle Posted - May 12 2016 : 04:57:24 AM
Well, I evidently have a momma wood duck nesting on my place because the drake (papa) has taken up watch on top of the chimney swift tower. Two concerns: the chimney swifts won't use the tower if the drake is on sentry duty and if the momma hatches her nest of eggs, the cats will surely kill the ducklings. :(
NellieBelle Posted - May 11 2016 : 7:12:12 PM
Yes, it helps that I live on a dead end road and county maintenance is minimal. I have "no spray" signs up also.
txbikergirl Posted - May 11 2016 : 6:40:24 PM
lovely rose and rose story maryjane. we have both hares and rabbits on the farm. we have two hares that have lived down by the barn (only one is around right now that we can see), thats the west side of the house... but on the north and east of the house we have little rabbits. go figure why they choose different sides. i enjoyed reading the details of the article you posted, and then was able to tell lover boy he was right about everything he had already told me about hares and rabbits ;>

janet your roses will be blooming before you know it. and we WILL be able to smell them in texas as you have so many of them !

does that sign keep your government from mowing where you are janet? or perhaps you don't have that service where you are? with all the rain in east texas the counties actually mow the sides of the road 2-4 times every year... and don't know that they would see or respect a sign.
NellieBelle Posted - May 11 2016 : 5:55:34 PM
There use to be hares years ago in the mid-west. Once in a great while you will see one, but they have mostly left with the prairie. Your yellow rose is gorgeous. I've always had a love for roses. I'm hoping I can always care for them because things wouldn't be the same without them. I have my grandmother's indigo bush that they had on the farm. I have taken seed and started others. pretty special. My cats love baby bunnies too. I have way too many and so don't feel so bad. Keeps things in check.
maryjane Posted - May 11 2016 : 5:43:16 PM
When you said you didn't have hares, Carol and I wondered so we looked up the difference. I thought the piece was well-written and clever. So now I know the difference. Thanks! (Jasper thinks baby bunnies are tasty, even so, we have too many of them.)

The yellow rose is a very old rose, super thorny and fragrant. Nick's mother had a hedge of them so I started my own from hers many years ago. It's taller than me now. Soon there will be hundreds of them in bloom. The chickens love eating the petals that fall. I also have a white rose hedge that is the result of starts I dug up at Ruth's. She planted trees and flowers everywhere. We can only hope that someday someone will say that about us. In the meantime, I'm scouting the highways for road-kill bedding I can sell:)
NellieBelle Posted - May 11 2016 : 5:10:28 PM
Love the roses you and Cindy are sharing. I have many in bud but nothing in bloom yet. I can smell the fragrant aroma from here. And for the link of bunnies and hare.
maryjane Posted - May 11 2016 : 4:59:58 PM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141219-rabbits-hares-animals-science-mating-courtship/
NellieBelle Posted - May 11 2016 : 3:49:25 PM
How did you know MaryJane. ;) I have plenty of rabbits but no hare. A little Beatrix Potter at everyone's farms.
txbikergirl Posted - May 11 2016 : 12:42:48 PM
GREAT janet! just love that. it isn't quite as special, but we have a large hare that lives down by t he barn. i just call him peter, but we see him a couple of times a week and it always makes me smile, hold my breath for a bit, and just enjoy him.

they are such great gifts from nature.

at least once a week i see a heron on our lake, i see it often enough that i believe he has now taken up residence. but i am always down there talking loud to the cows or chickens so think that i would see him more often if i kept my mouth shut. but can any of you? seriously, does everyone find themselves chatting away out loud to the cows and pets the moment they come into view? it just seems the most natural thing to do.
maryjane Posted - May 11 2016 : 10:02:49 AM
Do you think it has to do that nature sign you have out that says, All are welcome here?