Just got home from working on the house and decided to check the minnow trap I had set in the creek (pronounced crick here in PA) about 2 weeks ago, and to my surprise there were about 2 dozen in it. So I put them in a bucket of water and went up [...]
The first 3 pictures shown here are from last evening. These 3 jakes were out picking through the freshly plowed cornfield. For those who may not know, a jake is a young male wild turkey. I have been seeing turkey out just about every evening the past couple of weeks. Sometimes [...]
Spring is upon us. It was actually hot enough yesterday to get a sunburn.
As you can see from this picture, the heat just means its time to get out and get the work done. That grass will need weedwacked every couple of weeks beginning probably next week.
These wild onions have actually been growing [...]
As I write this I am sitting outside enjoying the nice weather. It’s a little breezy, but otherwise its a beautiful spring day. I took a short hike and heard a turkey gobble rounding up his hens while I was in the woods. Here is a picture of the leaves all torn [...]
I’m not sure what was with this goose today. I was in the house doing some cleaning and I heard it honking. Thinking it was a gaggle flying over, I looked out the window and there it was. The goose was alone and stayed around for close to an hour honking [...]
Man I can’t wait for Spring to completely arrive! I’m sick of everything being so dull and gray. At least there are still sights to see that aren’t so bad. These turkey were in the corn field behind the house when we pulled in.
They had already started to head out of the [...]
