Box Turtle

Today while moving the field, I saw this Eastern Box Turtle walking toward the stream.

Easter Fox

Today is Easter and a fox was hanging out in our yard.

 

And he caught a mouse and ate it.

Bunnies

Easter must be coming soon because I'm seeing the rabbits hopping along the fenceline in the morning.

Early Morning Deer

Pictures by Tim Taylor

Groundhog Day

Apparently Groundhog day is on January 29th in Virginia. The groundhogs have been hibernating since November, but today one came out, walked around a bit, looked for his shadow (which was there) and went back underground.

Bunny

Saw this bunny in our backyard in the morning and shortly after this I was chasing my beagle, Lucky, all over the neighborhood as he hunted for rabbits.

A wildlife kind of day

A lot of activity in our yard today. What I think is a barn swallow has built a nest near our front door, another bird has built a nest in our newspaper box, we saw our Groundhog with two little ones following behind her, then a fox strolled through the back yard. Right around dusk we saw 5 deer frolicking in the field beside the house.

Foxy

This fox (or others that look just like it) has been skulking around the edges of our property lately. We are worried about him coming after our dogs, but here it looks like he has flushed out a bird.

Baby Bunny

When I was bringing Lucky back in from his walk last night, he pulled over to the little garden in front of our house. He snooped around under a bush and came out with a mouth full of fur. Tim came out and checked into it. I thought he had caught an animal or something, but what was in his mouth was a big puff of fur from a bunny nest. There was a tiny baby bunny crawling near the nest back toward it's home. Tim gently put it back in the nest and covered it back up.

We were worried that the mommy might not come back or would abandon it since we had touched it. I looked up some information on line and found that rabbits commonly leave their nest alone all day and come back to feed the babies only at night. They do this so they don't call attention to the nest to predators. Two days later, the baby was gone. We like to think that the Mom moved it to a safer location.

Snow!

We got our first snow this week. Tim and I went for a walk and checked out all the animal tracks in the new fallen snow. It looks like there is a lot of activity out in our field.

 

Groundhog

Since we moved in we've had many groundhosg living at the edges of our yard. Hard to get a picture of though. I finally snapped a few that were'nt a complete blur.