With the temperatures across the nation dipping into the negative digits, and wind chills making things even worse, we humans are not the only ones having a hard time dealing. In the past week, I’ve received several emails and other notes about people finding wild birds in trouble. The most recent came this morning, with a note about a friend of a friend, who rescued a little bird from the side of the road.
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I’ve mentioned Stars and Stripes, our European Starlings, many times in my blog posts. I’ve also mentioned that they talk … and yet, my readers have had nothing but my word to go on as to the truth of that. All that has changed! I’ve finally, after quite a few months of trying to figure out [Click title to read post ...] I’m sure visitors remember our adventures with the vole. Mister Vole was caught, finally, by a makeshift live trap that the hubby thought up. However, he certainly wasn’t the only rodent house guest, by far. Fast forward to today…. It was relatively early morning, around seven-thirty-ish or so. I started on my normal routine: let the [Click title to read post ...] Photo by Laurie Smith, USDA Anyone who lives in the country probably knows what a vole is. For the benefit of my city-dwelling friends, however, a vole, or meadow vole, is a rodent. It’s larger than a mouse and not quite as cute, and smaller than a rat and not quite as … shiver-inducing. (Not [Click title to read post ...] “Gayle, Gayle, you made a typo in the title of this post! It should be Rockin’ Robins!” Neewwwwp. I spelled, or initialed, anyway, it right. RAOKA. It stands for: Random Acts of Kick-Arse Sami, a super blogger over at Life, Laughs and Lemmings (I kid you not), came up with this great idea, you see. She’s setting up [Click title to read post ...] Yesterday, me and my hubby (and my camera) tagged along with my dear friend Wes and his kids to the season’s skunk and raccoon release. Wes, the director of NY Wildlife Rescue Center (see the link in the right sidebar for more info or to visit the Center’s site and leave a donation) has blogged [Click title to read post ...] Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small by Ted Andrews “There was a time when humanity recognized itself as part of nature, and nature as part of itself. Dreaming and waking were inseparable realities; the natural and the supernatural merged and blended. People used images of nature to express [Click title to read post ...] NY Wildlife Rescue Center Open House July 18th, 2009 — NY Wildlife Rescue Center held our open house, and the dedication of our new Raptor Center. We had about two-hundred visitors, and a wonderful time! 29 Photos
On July 18th, 2009, New York Wildlife Rescue Center held an Open House. It was a [Click title to read post ...] The past two days have seen some lovely blooms, including a few first flowers of the season. Today, you’ll find “FFO” pictures of Hemerocallis ‘Custard Candy’ and H. ‘Barbary Corsair’, as well as some shots of blooms you’ve already met this season. My favorite of the batch is the shot of H. ‘Lady Inara’, with [Click title to read post ...] “Leave Them Alone”. My friend Wes mentions, often, in his blogs, that touching or handling wildlife is never a good idea. Everyone knows about rabies, of course, but many people don’t realize how very serious a deal rabies can be. They think if they see a baby animal, the little one can’t possibly be infected. However, [Click title to read post ...] |
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