Mother? - Sit Spot #1415 - July 7, 2024

Mother? or Predator?

Sunday, July 7, 2024  10:50 a.m.

Sit 1415   :     Brush Pile W   :   Sunny

+24° (+28°)   w 2-4 kph          65% humidity

Towhee,

Crows, 

Blue Jay, 

(Traffic Noises), 

(Jet -  Porter Airlines flight 2387...)

   (Toronto / Chicago),

Red Squirrel, 

Song Sparrow,

Extras:

(11:50 p.m.) -

(Fireflies),

(Stars),

(Quiet),

3:40 a.m. -

Stars,

Quiet,

 

 5:20 a.m. -

Bats flying,

5:49 a.m. Sunrise Chorus -

Carolina Wren,

House Wren,

Robin,

Morning Activities -

2.8 km trail walk with Marigold,

   American Woodcock?,

   Blue Jay,

   Carolina Wren,

   Crows

   Grackle 

   Mourning Dove 

   Red-winged Blackbirds,

   Towhee

   Warbling Vireo,

 

   Green Frogs

   Dragonfly

 

Blooming Flowers:

   Agrimony 

   Alfalfa

   Alsike Clover 

   Birdsfoot Trefoil,

   Bittersweet Nightshade 

   Black-eyed  Susan 

   Black Medic,

   Blue Vervain (gdn),

   Butterfly weed (gdn)

   Canada Anemone

   Celandine,

   Comfrey (gdn),

   Common Fleabane,

   Common Milkweed,

   Common Mullein,,

   Cow Vetch,

   Creeping Bell Flower 

   Daisy Fleabane,

   Day Lily

   Enchanters Nightshade 

   English Plantain 

   Evening Primrose,

   Everbearing Strawberry (gdn),

   Fringed Loostrife,

   Hairy Vetch,

   Harebell (gdn) 

   Heal-all,

   Hemp Dogbane,

   Herb Robert,

   Kiss me over the garden gate (gdn)

   Lanceleaf Tickseed (gdn),

   Lavender (gdn)

   Lopseed,

   Marigolds (gdn),

   Meadow Goatsbeard,

   Mock Strawberry (gdn),

   Monkshood (gdn),

   Motherwort 

   Nodding Onion (gdn),

   Oswego Tea (gdn),

   Oxeye Daisy,

   Petunias (gdn),

   Purple- Flowering Raspberries 

   Queen Anne's Lace 

   Ragged Fringed Orchid ,

   Red Clover,

   Rose Campion (gdn),

   Rough-fruited Cinquefoil,

   Saint Johnswort 

   Salvia 'Gigantio' (gdn)

   Shrubby Cinquefoil 

   1st Slender Mountain Mint

   Spiderwort (gdn),

   Spreading Dogbane,

   Tall Buttercup,

   Tall Meadow-rue 

   Thimbleweed,

   Timothy 

   Trumpet Vine 

   Two-row Stonecrop (Dragon’s Blood),

   1st Upright Hedge Parsley 

   1st Virgin's Bower

   1st Virginia Mountain Mint

   White Avens,

   White Clover,

   White Sweet clover 

   White Vervain 

   Wild Basil,

   Yarrow,

   Yellow Wood Sorrel,

Afternoon Activities -

Worked on computer

   Trying to figure out masking on Fresco

Mowed part of East paddock

   To knock down Goldenrods so more grass

      Could grow for animals,

Picked up grass piles that our neighbour

   Nancy raked up for us,

Did more tree trimming to help with mowing,

Short Trail walk with Marigold and Fleur-Ange,

Seen or Heard from Kitchen -

Red-Winged Blackbirds,

Blue Jay,

Cardinal,

Grackle,

Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 

White-Breasted Nuthatch,

Robin,

Downy Woodpecker,

Carolina Wren,

House Wren,

Chipmunk,

Black Squirrel,

Grey Squirrel,

Red Squirrel.

Fringed Loosetrife

has fringes on flower stems