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found a dead woodpecker in my front yard today.
i adore woodpeckers and can pick their calls and āchop chopā chirp over the jays, chickens and other birds. i watch them tap-tap-tapping on the electric poles on the street. i watch them fuss at the bluejays at the feeders.
i love our woodpeckers and am terribly saddened by this macabre discovery.
i politely moved the poor dear into a tiny box and interred him in a special spot, near the garden where they often dropped the peanuts we feed them.
i have always felt woodpeckers to be symbolically important. just finding a feather was a special āgiftā.
i do not know what to make of this occurrence, but it troubles me.
om mani padme hum
may they experience fortunate rebirth.
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Do you just call a tiny collosal squid, a squid?
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But this one is a baby and will grow up to be colossalā¦
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A collosmol squid.
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I bet it eats jumbo shrimp
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Probably! Tasty!
Do shrimps go that deep? 
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Look at 'em!!!
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From 5 eggs to 1, and I think the nest is abandoned because thereās no poo around the rim of the nest. 
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And, of course, the occasional affectionate nibble.
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Iām thinking of getting a trail cam for a few things;
-what the hell is burrowing under the back of my house? (Bigger than a rat, and could be a skunk);
-what the hell is burrowing under the front steps at the cottage? (Rat sized burrow, but we donāt get rats that far north, as far as I know),
-and what animals stroll past my cottage when Iām not there?
The cheapest one I can find that is readily available is this one, and I can get 100 pics a month for free. The batteries last about 2 weeks.
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The bunny I evicted from my garden has chosen to make a nest under the cover for my fire pit. And Iām okay with that.
Bunny will have plenty to eat until the 1st of June. Anyone need dandelions?
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No Mow May?
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Dandelion snack edition!
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Started as laziness and a general disdain for grass, but then I got on board with no-mow-may. Letting the dandelions frow benefits me in that birds and bunnies prefer dandelions to whatever I have in my garden.
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Went out to the kitchen not long after I got up, and after a minute, there was a V loud buzzing. Sounded like a bee or wasp was in the room. I stopped and looked around, saw nothing. Then I saw a bumblebee of some kind in the back doorās smol window! She was trapped between the back and screen doors!
I briefly asked The Universe to make it easy to save the bee, then waited for the buzzing to stop. I slowly opened the door, and she was on the screen door near the top. I quickly opened the screen door, and after a coupla bumps against it, she flew off.
Phew!
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Yay!
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Oh, I was - and am - so happy and relieved!
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