the backyard

. Saturday, March 2, 2024 .

 Way back in the early part of the Wammyville year, in the fall, Adi found this beautiful creature.  We put it in our fancy bug keeper with food, sticks, and water.  Then we hoped for the best.

I got this pic from Google because I couldn't find the pic we took on the day of the find.

We waited and waited for something to happen. One day the caterpillar was gone.  We couldn't find any escape routes. When we dug deeper we found that it had made a cocoon securely attached to the bottom of the container.

O Wednesday morning I was checking on the tadpole and noticed we had a moth!!!


Those look like owl eyes.

This is what the underneath side looks like.

The moth even has camo that looks just like the leaves.

The cocoon was hard like we had poured Elmer's glue on it.

Look at the small hole where he/she emerged.  We didn't have time to figure that out.  We had to set it free and then protect it from Ollie.

. Monday, October 3, 2022 .

 Daily the kids and I are out looking for creatures. They can be worms, snakes, birds, bees, or anything you can name. Today we saw a very lazy carpenter bee. She was just sunning herself taking life easy, taking a break because there's not how much left for her to do.


Then we found these nasty squash beetles.

A little sparrow watching over me.

Along with his partner in crime.

I always did like that old hymn.
The Backyard

. Sunday, March 27, 2022 .

And he has a girlfriend.  And to add to the neighborhood there seems to be another nesting pair.  They have been feasting on little birds and chipmunks in the yard.

 

. Saturday, October 30, 2021 .

 

We love all the creatures big and small that are in the yard.  They yahoos get so excited when they find something.  They always want to take a pic and then if I can't answer their questions we see what Google Lens has to say.  We are stumped on this one.  A few think it is a squirrel.  Others say a chipmunk.  One says mole.  I think it is a groundhog.  The dirt is about 6 inches above the level of the ground in the rest of the garden.  I'd love to know.













Eagle Ridge Road

. Saturday, September 19, 2020 .

 

This little guy!

He scared me just a little bit.