This little beauty is called a Red-Breasted Sapsucker. He drills neat little rows of holes in trees looking for bugs and coming back later to enjoy the sap… He's about 9 inches long (so in between the large Pileated and small Downy Woodpeckers).
Category: Daily Life
Day 223 – December 20th 2008
I think we finally have a name!! For our house/the cottage/property that is. We keep seeing the gorgeous (and enormous) Pileated Woodpecker (16+ inches long) on our feeder and flying around the property making it's chattering, laughing sound. See right! We also regularly see the cute little downy woodpecker (about 6 inches long with little…
Day 219 – December 16th 2008
First the deer, now rabbits!!! OK, so we held off on planting too much food and doing any landscaping because the deer just eat everything – bulbs, plant shoots, stripping bark off trees (and killing them sometimes). But we had this little ramshackle vegetable patch which we diligently cleared and planted up. Now, Duncan hates…
Day 212 – December 9th 2008
Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr OK, so deer-fencing will be happening soon – hurrah on two fronts – we will be able to 1) plant bulbs and plants without them being chomped by deer and 2) let Dexter off to roam free in the two fenced acres. And prior to the deer fencing we had 2 cedars removed. I have…
Day 200 – November 27th 2008
Dexter Destroys!!! Do you need any excavation done? If so, Dexter could be your man… We found this blocking our regular walking trail this morning and Dexter seemed to think it looked fun… Sadly it also looked like they had dug out the beaver dam at the bottom of the hill… Have to wait and…