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September 22 2001

  • Jack rabbit
  • Saw lizard
  • Chickadee inside barn was caught in a thick spider web. It was rescued, web removed and set free near tipi

Posted in 2001 Journal, Census

September 04 2001

1 week or more of good, long, flooding rain

  • Home construction carpenters reported seeing a fox crossing the road towards the water well pasture and a stray mangy dog in the early AM
  • Everyone working heard a rabbit scream towards bobcat draw (heard over construction noise)
  • Workers saw a squirrel take down birdseed block (bypassed squirrel guard)
  • Saw hummingbirds
  • Looking for monarch migration
  • Tiger swallowtail butterflies
  • Raccoon and deer tracks at river
  • Scrub jays
  • Large butterfly
  • Striped lizard (10 inches long)
  • Large leopard frog at river
  • 18 inch hog nosed snake behind barn that had eaten something large (likely a little field mouse that are quite abundant under the pallets with hay for house construction)
hognose snake after a meal

Posted in 2001 Journal, Census

August 28 2001

  • Heard a different pretty bird song at 8PM
  • Heard owl
  • Saw cardinal and doves
  • Fire ants patiently harvesting sunflower seeds thrown down on ground for critters

Posted in 2001 Journal, Census

July 12 2001

  • Saw striped lizard, dead baby lizard at barn
  • Fish in water well pond doing good

Posted in 2001 Journal, Census

June 17 2001

Animals seen and heard in the last month:

  • 3 jack rabbits, long ears near water well at gate
  • Bat
  • Crickets
  • Frogs in river, lots of little ones and lots of egg sacs
  • Butterflies - monarchs, yellows, black
  • Dragonflies
  • Good ants! Large black ants at tipi around kitchen area
  • Crazy ants found around old fire ant mounds
  • Large red wasp nests in tipi
  • Heard coughing noise (fox)
  • Deer
  • Something scared the dog on the river trail
  • Snake at river edge, large, black
  • Armadillo
  • Raccoon
  • Squirrel (in Pecan trees at river)
  • Cat fish
  • Chuck wills widow
  • Great blue heron
    great blue heron
  • Chickadee
  • Cardinal
  • Titmice
  • Wren
  • Mystery little brown birds (LBBs)
  • Hawk
  • Crow
  • Turkey vulture
  • Nighthawk
  • Kingfisher
  • Duck
  • Hawk at river (red-tailed)
  • Ladder-back woodpecker
  • Great crested flycatcher
  • Swallows and martins
  • Many different bird songs

Posted in 2001 Journal, Census

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