More critters

Bob, nature, photography, wildlife

A second day of having our critter cam out along our farm lane meant more wildlife.

The tom turkey didn’t return to strut his stuff. Instead, two sandhill cranes walked across the field. Two days before we scared one from the overgrown ditch–maybe she was nesting there. We can’t be sure if she is one of this pair. No matter. It’s always nice seeing them on our farm.

The critter cam shows two of the sandhill cranes on Sunnybook Farm

Again, the night photos didn’t show much, only a few distant glowing eyes. Earlier a different kind of wildlife showed up in the afternoon.

Susan and Bob looked at the camera. Sunny had his eyes on a hopping robin.

We reset the camera today, thinking we missed last night’s thunderstorm. Little did we know a half hour later another storm would pop up in our area. Good thing we made it back to the house in time.

Picture Picture

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Our critter cam was in position, ready for something to walk into its frame.

We got a few shots that didn’t show anything, then a blurred deer passed in the distance in the dark of night. It wasn’t until 7:51 am that we got our best photo.

Meet Tom

Mr. Tom Turkey came into view strutting for his lady friends. I guess the lady turkeys were shy because they never stepped in front of the camera.

This beautiful Tom is just the beginning of our 2019 nature snapshots. Hope we capture many more wild animals as we go through the year.

Looking around

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Bob and I still haven’t been able to drive our cart all the way down our farm lane. We are keeping a watch for the day when all the water and mud have disappeared enough for us to drive safely down to our woods.

In the meantime, we took our critter cam down our lane as far as we could. There we attached it to a tree to see if any animals come for a visit.

Say, ‘cheese’

We set the camera up near the lane, on the edge of an open field. Hopefully, when we bring the camera home again, we’ll have photos of local wildlife and not just Bob, Sunny, and me in the cart after affixing the camera to the tree.

Tom Sawyer revisited

Farming, Friends, gardening

If you are a gardener you might be thinking of taking a trip over to Sunnybook Farm for some free chicken fertilizer–be prepared to shovel your own.

Bridget with two buckets of fertilizer gold, well gray.


There’s more to share. Chicken manure has a lot of nitrogen so it brings out the green of plants–not the blooms–bring containers if you have them otherwise I have a few more buckets to share, too.

I heard from another gardener who wants to give me a hand cleaning out the chicken house and taking some of this treasure home. Maybe they will drop by later today.

You can’t beat this deal–free fertilizer. It’s definitely a win-win opportunity. For me, it’s a big win.

Scampering squirrel

Friends, wildlife

We don’t get many squirrels up by our house. I know many people have to fight squirrels off to keep them from raiding their bird feeders. We don’t.

I was going through some digital images and came across this one of a squirrel on our critter cam.

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I thought I’d share it today.

We haven’t gotten all the way down our farm lane because of rain. Our cart is 2-wheel drive and won’t go through the mud.

Since Bob and I have to take care not to get stuck we’re thinking of hanging the critter cam closer to home.

When the farm dries up a bit (over an inch of rain last night) we’ll set it up and see if any other wildlife visits.

Today it’s just this scampering squirrel.