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)

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
  
• 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