Windows on Wildlife: Our Wild Neighbors and Extended WoW Deadline

Welcome to the 24th edition of  Windows on Wildlife!  My apologies for being a day behind… I find it’s so hard to get back to regular time at the computer when I’ve had the luxury of being away for several days on end. Since I’m a day behind, I’ll extend the Windows on Wildlife deadline to Thursday at noon this week (instead of Wednesday).

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Although I haven’t even begun the process of formally recording my observations in the woods behind our house (I need to come up with a better name for this area…), I’m the kind of compulsive list-maker that can’t help cataloging things in her head, if I’m not getting  them down on paper (or computer).   I’m pretty list-obsessed; is anyone else like this?  Making lists, maintaining & updating lists, cataloging things, finding out about other people’s lists so I can improve my own… I love it.

So I’ve got a mental list going of  the wildlife I’ve either seen (or heard) directly, or seen evidence of in our little wild spaces:

White-tailed deer (seen)
Barred owl (seen, heard)
Red fox (scat & tracks)
Coywolf (scat & tracks)
Red-tailed hawk (seen, heard)
Raccoon (scat & tracks)
Bunches of songbirds: Chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, juncos, sparrows, warblers, robins, towhees
Large, unidentified weasel (scat) – most likely fisher

Nothing spectacularly exciting (although the two deer I keep running into do get my heart racing, as they always take me by surprise), but I’m quite interested in seeing how this list grows once I start really focusing on tracking and identifying signs.

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Gary and Boomer had some beautiful photos in the fog, and a great close-up of a Redpoll – a species I wish I saw more of around here.  Jenny had some great pictures of Gray Herons, which look very similar to the Great Blue Herons we have here in the northeastern US, but I’m assuming are not quite the same species.  Georgie from the Bees Hive shared a great list on ways to help with bee conservation.

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