Spring is the time when things get moving around. We’ve had mouse visitors at the ranch house, but the dogs took care of that.
The Hermit Haus office also got a visitor yesterday. Our neice, Kathleen, was there working when, to her surprise a little wriggly fellow crossed the floor. Luckily she’s a farm gal (she lives on our farm in Yorktown where Lee’s dad used to live).
According to her, it took a while, but she got the little fellow to exit the building, and he or she quickly beat a retreat down the drain outside the door. We’ve been checking for our neighbor since then, but there have been no further signs.
And those ducks
I continue to get a lot of joy from the whistling ducks. This morning, three of them were sitting on top of our house across the street. It just seems weird to see ducks up high like that.
Of course, I scared them off before I could get a closer picture. But they made that hilarious whistlig duck noise, so it’s okay!
Weather?
Hope your Friday is or was a good one. At least it’s no longer cold here. Monday started off in the 30s, and on Thursday it was well over 90! Texas weather is something else!
whistling ducks? do you mean Muskovy ducks? They are perching ducks originally from South America. They make a kind of hissing sound. Lord I miss my Muskovy ducks!
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I’m very familiar with Muscovy ducks! We had them all along the street where I lived as a teen in Plantation, Florida. However, these are black-bellied whistling ducks (once called tree ducks). The males have bright orange beaks and pink. Here’s more on them; https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/bbwduc/introduction
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Cool thanks! I was unaware of them. Hope I didn’t sound like Gwenny Know-It-All!
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Heck no. It was a good guess.
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