Hello There! Once again preparing another update for you. More technical issues appeared, but I think this is it, and we are on a roll with the spring apple blossoms and Swallowtail butterflies. We may even celebrate with a “Shuswap Spring Bird Series” or an “Owlet Special” a bit later on or “Duck” its Fathers Day!
Dads Duck
There has been much activity in the marsh. The bird songs ring through air and nest building has become top priority. And yes, Mrs. Squirrel has been up to something too. Everyone seems to have a pretty different idea about Home and how and where to build it.
“Home Sweet Home”
And then there are those who just take it with them while they are out and about. With the temperatures warming up, the female Western Painted Turtles are just starting to leaving the safety of the marsh and moving to higher ground to lay their eggs for next seasons hatch. And any day now we should be finding tiny little turtles that have spent their first year underground and now leave the safety of their buried nests to head to the shallow water. The first time for them to feel the cool, mountain lake water between their tiny clawed front toes and webbed hind feet. We have found them a half kilometre away from the water in some places. Many predators for such little hatchlings. Yet the older and bigger ones will be the predator themselves in Tadpole season especially! Feasting in the swirls of the thick blackened schools of unsuspecting young free swimming tadpoles.
Western Painted Turtle
High water in the Shuswap right now. I will get to work and get a recent photo for you. Haven’t been down the mountain lately to the big lake. Lots of excitement here in the area. Another Shuswap Birthday at the neighbours house! Wow, here in my sidebar is a fancy dance from a nesting Common Snipe to celebrate the occassion.
To the East
Once again, we have reached the end of the line for this update. Time to get other chores done inside today. As soon as I saw the mosquito flying by with extra long cobwebs attached to him, I figured it would be a good dusting day. And no need to dust off our blog stats though,as they have grown to the amazing amount of 1335. When you calculate we have a population here of 2, that is some pretty high counting! Who would of known, that there was that many of you out there and that you actually all had the electronical equipment to read this homemade blog! I have recently been thinking that it would be so extraordinary to have an “electric door bell” so we didn’t have to run to the door every time we hear knocking as it is usually that old woodpecker banging on the side of the house! May it is Morse Code for “Happy Fathers Day”.
End of the Line
Until next time!
xoxoxox
