The song birds were in full voice but the crows, owls, & geese were pretty much quiet.
The woodpeckers seem to have on sabbatical the last 2 mornings with nary a rat-a-tat-tat
from them.
At 06:32, I heard 2 gobbles from the NW. I called a little & he double gobbled back but
that was it. Nothing more was heard from him all morning.
At 09:25, I looked to my left & saw something in the shadows at the edge of the woods,
about 200 yards away, that didn’t look right. I wondered if it was a fan but, when I put
the binos on it, it turned out to be a doe standing at an angle. She walked along the edge
followed by another & another & another until there were at least 8 deer walking along
the edge. At least 3 were bucks &, based on the size of their bases, they should have
some pretty good headgear this fall.
At 09:30, a hen snuck in from the west. She fed around until 09:43 when she fed east.
She never came in to socialize with the dekes & pretty much ignored them.
The wind had been gusting all morning & was getting pretty strong as well as clouding up.
It was starting to sprinkle when I decided to call it a day. When I pulled the last peg, a
gust of wind caught it & the blind & I almost made our maiden voyage together as we
tried to imitate Mary freaking Poppins!! It was 78 when I left at11:45.
Sadly, another season is in the books. I’m not sure what is going on but in the past 1 ½ years,
I have only killed 1 bird while, in the previous 10, I have averaged 4 per year. Where I used to
hear between 4-10 birds a day, I am lucky to hear 2 & even luckier to see them. Things have
to change.
These are the pics of the moon this morning. I have never been able to get good pics of the
moon for whatever reason.
