We were originally greeted by a few wild turkeys when we were moving in a few things before the big move.  They come through the yard anytime of day.  Some mornings they are so loud they have even woken us up!!!

Then there was the whole in the yard we couldn’t figure out.  After many attempts to discover what lived in the hole my husband covered it with a piece of slate.  In the morning when he picked up the slate to his surprise was a just as surprised chipmunk.  I wished I had a camera to catch how high Bob jumped, never mind how fast that little chipmunk took off.  Well, we’ve named him Chip and that mystery hole is solved.

Our daughter ran into a turtle crossing the driveway one morning when she was leaving to go to school.  One lone turtle along way from the pond across the street.

We also have a whole maze of mole hills.  They are in all their glory here, basically going anywhere they like except in my sunflower garden.  I heard somewhere along time ago that if you stick a pinwheel in the ground it will send out vibrations that the moles don’t like so they will stay away from that area.  I have done this since then and I have to say I don’t have any moles in my little garden area.  I will post some pictures of this years sunflowers as soon as the battery charges on the camera.

I do have a couple pictures of our latest discovery of wildlife in the backyard.  We have a barn in the back and we just discovered the black vulture and her two babies living in the loft.  I saw the mother yesterday on the roof and my husband bravely took a few pictures yesterday afternoon after mom had returned.  She was hissing so we didn’t get to close but there are definitely two babies in there!!!

Black Vulture and her two babiesMom and babies

We really love this place and the peaceful setting.  The dog really gets more exercise here too.  She has really done well healing after her  ACL surgery at Thanksgiving.  We’re so very grateful for this.  She gives us so much joy.  Our little Princess does have personality.  She turned 8 years old in May.  We got her from the Ct Humane Society when she was about a year and half old.  She had little to no confidence and was very timid.  She is far from that now!  She is very attached to me, (can’t be I spoil her rotten) and absolutely loves her Dad.  She thinks we never should go anywhere and always be with her.  She certainly takes up to much of the bed at night sometimes……

I’m going to sign off for today.  I just had to share our discovery in the barn.  My husband looked it up online and found that black vultures have only been nesting in Ct since 2003.  It’s pretty cool and I will enjoy watching them grow and fly away.

Have a great day!!!

P.S. Check out this video it will make you smile for sure..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcVllWpwGs