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We have plovers with their flying suits on in our yard. They leave for Alaska during the Easter season and return in August. We also have plenty of egrets, mountain doves, American Cardinals, Java finches, monarch butterflies and black witch moths that have been visiting our yard. Karen
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My Mark called me outside this afternoon, yelling, "bring your camers!"
Up in the sky, he had spotted a circumzenithal arc.
You can spot Mark in the bottom left corner of the photo.
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joann10 wrote:
My Mark called me outside this afternoon, yelling, "bring your camers!"
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Now that is very cool! Thanks for sharing.
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Patty asked me to post these pics of the new residents of her front door wreath!
Any advice as to how she should use her front door, now? LOL!
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Look at that, we're expecting quadruplets!
I finally got a wreath on the door this year, and look what happened.
Are those robin's eggs, do you think? Off to google.n Yes, it's a robin. My husband saw her watching over the nest and turning the eggs every so often while he was mulching the planting beds out front today. We'll have to watch the momma from a distance.
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We hadgolf ball sized hailin our backyard this evening!
It looked like winter for a little while!
Off to monitor the weather...we're still under a tornado watch tonight... 
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We saw our first western tanagers since we've moved here two years ago.
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We saw a trumpeter swan yesterday at my dad's cottage. I'm hoping my dd took a picture.
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My 12-year-old daughter *thinks* she saw a green-tailed towhee in our yard, but I didn't see it and therefore can't verify. She drew a picture of a bird with a red head and a green back. Besides ducks and hummers, which she knows very well, there's one green-backed bird that shines around these parts, a violet-green swallow, but it's head is not red. By process of elimination, we believe it's the green-tailed towhee that she saw. The birds we've been seeing come through our yard this year are incredible. We've put food out for the birds since we moved here. Why did they wait two years to visit us?
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That is one strange-looking bird, Tina! How cool!
As for the two year lag...birds are creatures of habit. They probably had a nearby source of food and water, and don't think to look elsewhere. I bet you (and the birds!) are glad you didn't give up! 
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I must need a nap. I read this as "Western Teenagers". 
Not all that exciting, but as I was harvesting some lettuce - wearing my new wide brimmed hat so I couldn't really see much around me with my head down- a fox runs out of the bush right next to me and across our lawn. I'm kind of glad I didn't notice until he was off and running!
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We found a Green Salmander under our dining table! . It is located right by the backdoor. We found out that these are very rare and only native to a few areas in the SE. My son pleaded to keep it for 12 hours so we let him. The little guy, Jaws, ate many of the beetles my son collected for him. We did let him go and really enjoyed learning so much about this specie if salmander.
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WE just found a juvenile water moccasin in our backyard pond--a little meditation pond, no big fish pond or anything. It was scary...the kids stick their hands in there all the time and are always hunting up creatures around there. It would have been so easy for one of them to come in contact with it! But of course, we put it in an ice chest and looked at it closely before dh did away with it...I felt bad for it and couldn't watch, but venomous snakes in the backyard don't get any mercy around here!
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missionfamily wrote:
| WE just found a juvenile water moccasin in our backyard pond-- |
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When we lived in Alabama, swim lessons were cancelled one day because a water moccasin was lurking around the outdoor pool!
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MacBeth wrote:
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Which one? I linked to three. Yes, we're *very* happy. I wondered why a friend of mine who lives in a valley between mountains and in a higher elevation than we do, had so many colorful birds at her feeder. She doesn't even notice them!  Well, she lived in that house for 8 years now. Despite not noticing the birds, she *does* keep the feeder stocked.
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Oooh, a snake! And a water moccasin, no less!!!!
This reminded me, as a warning, if you are buying plants in containers for your gardens, be cautious! My poor mum encountered a pygmy rattler as she removed a plant from a pot. It was in the pot, don't know how on earth it got there. My mum probably jumped 20 feet! Dad saved the day, much as your dh did, Colleen!
BTW, how did you transfer the snake to the ice chest? I love science, but I am ...petrified?..when it comes to venomous creatures!   (I was going for a frantically screaming emoticom, but had to go with these.  )
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Tina P. wrote:
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I thought I quoted you, but I must have deleted it by accident. I thought the green-tailed towhee was pretty neat. I have never seen one. 
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[QUOTE=stacykay]
BTW, how did you transfer the snake to the ice chest? I love science, but I am ...petrified?..when it comes to venomous creatures! QUOTE]
My dh used his trash-picker uppy thingy (I'm sure you know just what I mean )...you squeeze the handle and it grabs things...and caught it in the pond while I corraled the kids far out of the way. Then he dropped it in the ice chest and let the kids come one at a time to look it. I don't mind snakes really and tend to err on the side of being laid back so I kept rallying for the snake...what if we're wrong and he's harmless, let's not kill him yet, until my dh finally banished me inside while he dismissed of the thing...I googled to make sure and I believe him now...it was not a nice snake!
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missionfamily wrote:
| WE just found a juvenile water moccasin in our backyard pond--a little meditation pond, no big fish pond or anything. |
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Ummm...some meditation! Yikes!
For those of you living in areas with venomous snakes (we have none on Long Island), have you checked with local hospitals about what anti-venom they stock? I am curious, since a pet snake bit someone a few miles from here, and they had to airlift the guy to the hospital closest to the Bronx Zoo to get the right anti-venom...not a flight
I'd like to have to take when time is of the essence.
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That's sooo cool!! When we head down south the boys always love looking for reptiles, but to find a rare one! Lucky!!!
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