Turtles

Summer’s here! It’s been mostly sunny, and I’ve been catching up on some outside chores in the garden and around the house—things like repotting the geraniums that overwintered in the daylight basement, harvesting a few blueberries, and picking Japanese beetles off the scuppernong grapevines.

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I’ve been walking earlier to avoid the heat, and I think some of the critters are doing the same. I’ve seen several box turtles on my rambles; last week I saw three in one day!

Turtle below mailbox 6-28-19 – Version 2

I sometimes see deer in the woods as I walk, and they often wait in the meadow when they see me pass by. At least one of the mama does brings her fawn almost daily, but it still runs off when it sees me. One day I saw a mama and her tiny fawn crossing the road as I walked. You can see how shaky the fawn was (and also how shaky my video is) here.

We’ve had a lot of traffic from trucks with materials and workers for the new construction. If you know me well, you won’t be surprised to know that I often stop to chat about their work and to ask them to watch out for the critters.

The turkey poults have hatched. I sometimes hear and/or see them, but they’re still not much taller than the grass. One of the hens often brings her four surviving poults by the house and to the meadow, but they melt back into the woods before I can get a good photo. This is the closest I’ve managed to get.

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Summer blossoms and butterflies will have to wait for another day. And who knows what else will happen in the Hollow before the next post? (I hope no bears!)