Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
Fabulous Hiking on Vancouver Island in the snow!! With all our visitors gone and the dangerous slippy roads improving – which have both been very exciting – Dexter needs a good solid walk… So, Duncan and I decided to do a new hike on the 'Big Island' (Vancouver Island) and take advantage of the reduced ferry fares! And…
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).
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…
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…
Poisonous Newts!!! Well, we found a rough-skinned newt on our walk today. Very cute (it's the second one we've found in the road and moved so it doesn't get run over). I had no idea – but it's apparently RIDICULOUSLY POISONOUS!! Which has its advantages – no-one wants to eat it – and that's why it…