Today marks the first new day of this old experiment… my blog. Originally, this blog was intended for my artwork, like a website, for exposure. But that became too much pressure. Now I have a new and improved website that works just fine. (See the new URL at the bottom of this post.)
Yay! I can use the blog for other random things, being the amateur naturalist that I am. And I will post when I feel like it instead of feeling like I have to. A warning to anyone reading this: there will be errors! Typos, incorrect spelling, bad grammar, weird punctuation, you name it. But that is okay. This is just journaling for me and the pressure for perfection is off. I’ll do my best but I like a relaxed way of writing out loud. It’s good for me and it’s fun!
So… the other night (I think it was Friday night) we were visited by a very scary sounding, barking critter. Which has been happening very frequently for the past month, sometimes right next to the house, like it was the other night, and at all hours. I think it was around 8:30pm. The sound really sets the dogs off and even though I turned on the outside light, the scary bark didn’t stop. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see anything. It barked repeatedly in a pattern of three barks with a long pause (sort of a loud, eerie , screaming bark) for about 10 min. and then eventually moved on. I wondered if it was a fisher? A bobcat? An owl? In the morning I looked for tracks or anything that would give me a clue but between all of our dog’s tracks and the frozen snow pack, nothing was revealed. After a bit of searching the internet through many samples of wild animal sounds, I’m pretty sure what we have is a fox claiming our yard as territory. No surprise. The birdseed and suet feeders attract a lot of mice, voles, shrews and flying squirrels. (see photo) To a fox it must be an all night buffet! Grey or red fox, I’m not sure. We see them both here. And in all the sound bytes, they sound the same to me. But now, NOT so scary after all, now that I know what it is! < http://www.susanparmenter.com >
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Such a strange tradition on February 2nd BUT I’m so happy that the “official” groundhog did not see their shadow. So we are in for an early spring! Always good news at this time of year, especially if you live in New Hampshire.
