Date: 09/06/2001

Number: 1

A female hummingbird stopped by to refuel at 9 a.m. The huge male Northern Harrier Hawk, pewter gray, dove into our weeping willow in hot pursuit of a blue jay. This jay imitates a redtail hawk's call, does wonders in clearing off the bird feeder!Backfired this time, feathers flew!
The big brown bats can trip the motion detector on our shop yard light now- keeping it on all night like the one it replaced! As they whirl vacuuming up bugs, a big American toad waits patiently below it for fallout. Teamwork!
Cooler weather has our 3 resident tree toads - Eves (always in the eavestrough), Crabby (claims the crabapple in the garden), & Petrol (owns the shop gas tank)- holding dialogues much earlier now as they bug hunt. Eves leaps from hanging flowerpots to travel across the deck. Moving them to catch the rain, causes us hear a painful "Splat!" landing!

Marne, MI

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -85.8

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