Spontaneous dandelion offering left by Charlotte for the Spirits of the Land For those who have not been to a recent work day, I would like to share what they are like and how they have been evolving, using our most recent one as an example. To begin, we take a moment to thank the Spirits of the Land for their abundance. We then spend awhile taking a walk around to see what is happening on ...
Yesterday while we were walking in the woods, we came across three American Woodcocks sitting quietly in the leaf litter. They were so quiet in fact, that they almost got trampled. It looked like they were perhaps a mama and her two young chicks. In the photos, you best can see the length of the Woodcock bill on the young bird. In the last photo you can try your luck seeing if you can spot the two ...
In this photo, the white banty hen is trying to shelter all her grown chicks under her wings. A banty hen is a type which is smaller than regular hens. The chicks in the picture are not bantys, but the banty mama sat on the eggs from other hens and raised the chicks as her own.Happy Mother's Day to all the Mamas of the world!