sightings

I admit that some of these photos aren't the greatest...but who wants to read a blog with no photos?!?!
Here is our resident heron. Can you see him in the sunny spot, through the tress? I think he likes to eat the frogs in our yard.
Here's a National Geographic reject. ...it's hard to take photos with Colin wiggling in my arms. Anyway, these are some deer we saw, I think there were 6 of them.
These are the last of a mass migration. I actually don't know if they are ducks or geese, or maybe something else. But I do know they are very loud. I was up early, and for about 5 minutes all I could hear was these birds making a loud racket as they passed over head. Our windows were all closed and I am completely astounded that Tim and Nadia slept through the noise.

Tim has also sighted a golden eagle and a vulture! No pictures of those ones...you'll just have to take his word for it.

The swathers are finally on our field. Harvest is late this year because we've had so much rain. These machines look so small when you see them in the middle of a field. But they are actually quite big.

Tim using the electric chainsaw. I bugged him endlessly about the electric part. I mean, think about it. The farm we are on is large...how long of a cord would we have to have in order to reach to the edge of the farm? And there's no outlet on the exterior of the house! Good thing we're just house sitting.