Animal Calendar - June 2020
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Animal Calendar - June 2020
by Hobb Tue 26 May 2020 - 16:05
I'll post my Animal Calendar in the spoiler below and starting on Monday we can all update it with 2020 results
Week 1 - Turtles & Deer, Mayflies and Horseflies and Pine Sawyers, MegaFlocks still heading North, showers of pollen, Beware Midges!
[Full 'Strawberry' Moon Friday]
Week 2 - Devil paintbrushes & buttercups, snakes, spinning oak seeds, birds eat each other, bugs mate; Beware Ticks!
[Last Quarter Moon on Saturday. At last quarter, the moon always rises around midnight and remains visible in the southern sky during morning daylight]
Week 3 - Solstice Twilight in the Boreal jungle
[Solstice on Saturday; New Moon Sunday]
Week 4 - Grouses galore, sea of small orange butterflies
[First Quarter Moon on Sunday (these moons always rise around noon and set at midnight, so they are visible starting in the afternoon hours), Summer Triangle Arrives]
- June:
June 1st 2010
Fox mom & pups at end of road
Snapping Turtle
2 Geese flocks heading NW
Lots o' Horsefly
june 1-2
Hawthorn bloom & smell like fish/smelling salts
tent catapilla rs dot matrixing cocoon (at least a week now)
blue azure mating
Great crested flycatcher
deer down at lake
June 1-2 2014
-capterpillar fuzzy black&white body with yellow top
-'mayfly'ish inscet wihs with 2 long thin tails gathering on "Long Road" path
-many turtle roadkills
June 1-2 2016
Turtle laying egg @ Long Road
tent catapillars dot matrixing cocoon (at least a week now)
Herons flying overhead, swooping birds, raven carrying stuff
Horseflies appear, dragonflies mating
June 3rd
lone firefly
2015 - big yellow buterfly around, dragonflies mating on driveway, ROAD: moose and marten
june 4th
carrion beetle massed on hawthorn -mass mating with damage to tree(secretion?)
june 4th 2010
turtle at hilltop!
pine pollen gusts / no birds at feeder
*sound of rough grouse*2009
june 4 2014
First hawthorne blooms
Flower check: bunchberries, solomon seal by telephone post on path
pin cherry a week earlier
motes/pollen in the air
2015 - Removed Tick from Cricket's eyebrow, firefly outside, stalk deer in nighttime forest it starts grunting-forced breath through teeth - Road: porcupine, baby chipmunks
june 5th
ruff grouse wt/ chick -
!! june 3-5th
pine pollen shower / no birds at feeder
2 Pine Sawyers(?) after storm [2/same? pine sawyer? 4-6 June 2014]
inch worms % small caterpillars hanging from trees
BIG line of geese heading north (across highway)
!!6 - fireflies
!! 6-9 - slugs, pollen showers, dragonflies
June 06 2016 - Very Windy day after cool nights - Dragonflies galore, Yellow Swallowtails galore, Mayflies & Midges at night,
JUne 7th 2014 - ladyslipper at point's hill / slugs over last week/ many dragonflies feeding
cricket on driveway / a few geese at night/
BIG MOTH at window (4 silver dots)
2nd Week of June *2009*
Big Dragonflies
Little Toads
Pine Sawyer?
june 7
pollen shower (front yard)
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Wild Rose // Pin Cherry Bloom //Lupin
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!!9th - baby ducks & squirels out, wild roses, fireflies, big black bugs
June 10th weekend 2017 - Popular pollen-cotton shower, small grasshoppers, many dragonflies, overhot blue jay looks dead with tilted neck and spread wings
june 11 2014 - fireflies out back bedroom window
june 11th *2009*
railway crossing near ali baba's. 8:00 pm.
giant tuffs of feathers whirlygiging to the ground.
a rain of down & feathers as a hawk eats another bird on top of a telephone poll.
June 11 2014
Lupins
Many sorts of dragon flies
june 12th *2009*
June Bugs
Many Fire Flies
Giant Toad (at night)
big snake shed skin (but little shed a month ago?)
june 12 2015
another batch of flying ants inside
eventful trip to 2-turtle pond - kingfisher wt/fish in mouth, four basking turtles and a pair of geese burst out of the bush right in front of Stef, later a gosling slides out into the water to catch-up with them. Devil paintbrushes & buttercups in bloom. red-belies under board
june 12 2017 - hissing turtle carried off road
second week of june 2016: much pollen spilt or floating down, mayflies arrive and moult, birds loud last few nights: gulls, geese, whippers, ravens,
june14
green smooth
Flowers:
Mustrard/Dill?
bunchberry
virginia Strawberry (side house/forest east - hydro)
June 14 2016
TwoPondSite: A garter startled into water, 2 leopard frogs lazily floating, 4-5 turtles floating up to stick their snouts out, water strangely transparent, Stef imagines draws turtle, Night: front and backyard skies are thick with mayflies til horizon, mating frenzy, pairs crashing to ground, one mating line has 3-4
Cricket barks at something in frontyard, ravens cackling at dusk,
June 14 2018
The rolling wave of wendigo caterpillar locusts has crested and subsided as they begin to coccoon. Populars, birch and hawthorns are stripped to the bare twigs, the maples were spared to use their leaves as coccon shelters. A second spring is occuring as the birch and populars resprout buds. This morning _dozens_of dragonflies in frontyard. Horrible news yesterday with a report that human terrorist chopped down the beloved centennial raven tree.
JUne 15-16 2014
Oak proppellers floating down
June 16 2019
Just above the treeline and passing clouds I can see the Moon & nearby a shining Jupiter with 4 little pinprick moons inbetween. The edges of the passing clouds rise like space mists on the Jovian moons. The night is loud with Whipperwill and Snipe. The buzzing of a fly explosion in the forest fills the day. BABY SQUIRRELS emerge. A dead baby snapping turtle earlier in the week....
MIDJUNE@2009 - Wild Rose // Pin Cherry Bloom //Lupin
june 16
the deepness of NIGHT NO LONGER occurs -- only a dark twilight
no - a twilight lit white by a full radiant moon and the willowisps of fireflies.cool as early septemeber, damp from a cycle of sun and rain,
arcturus beams down, saturn and mars escort Leo, Anatares bathes in the moonlight
!!MIDJUne (18th)
PIn Cherry, Blue-Eyed Grass, Devil Paintbrush, Daisy, Buttercups(?), lupin, peonies, mayflies (clouds of them bursting from the gras/bushes when walking by)
June 18th 2014
Bunchberries & Wild Rose & Yellow Cups & Devilbrushes
Wasp mating tail-to-tail awkard flying, caught on branches
Dragonflies of all sort - mating too, more dignified doggy-style
Small orange butterflies and bigger yellow
Black-headed, orange beaked tern flies by
Biting Midges at dusk and dawn, bigger mosquitoes hurt
Weird pale ruffly fuungus in shed with slugs galore
June 19 2018 - Racoon mother with 4 pups
JUNE 20 2014 - Two bears of Trillum PAth and two turtles resuced on the road there. Shadflies on screen. Deer and Horseflies.
june 21 &22 2016 -at 7:30 am both mornings had to stop car going up driveway for grouse on road -when out of car to scare it off -multiple small feathery chicks spread into forest while mother head to a higher tree spot on other side of driveway to watch and make chirping noises.
Late June -
front spruce tree covered with moths mating
beautiful orange and black 4 wing butterfly/moths in front field
many snakes (small red bellies, garters and tiny worm sized brown snakes)
rosy maple moth (beautiful pink legs and attenaes)
@2009@
23rd - Cnd Geese still heading north
June 23 2016 - A hawk spotting no birds at the feeder emerges from the foilagea and flies off (9am)
24th - porcupine in front yard dying pine tree
26- 2017 A hawk looking for birds at the feeder and flies off -previous week baby raccons and baby squirrels at feeder.
June 29 2016 - Cicadas, small gophers, sea of small orange butterflies (+small yellow and black wt/ white stripe), dead beaver,
@lost highway: lots of small turtles and grouse mother charged cricket and led her off
late June- (June 31)- multiple grouse around camp and on trillium trail also on trail see (look up black and white attacking bird)- lots of discarde egg shells at trail- unknown whethere by natural means or predator means.
JUne 30 2015 - At Turtle/Wolf Pelt Pond: Blandings turtle laying eggs (amongst many turtle tracks - like large snake tracks), egg sheel sucked out up the path, sandpiper & baby, at least TWO Otters who grunted at us.
Mid-sized spider with white egg sack
What to Expect
Week 1 - Turtles & Deer, Mayflies and Horseflies and Pine Sawyers, MegaFlocks still heading North, showers of pollen, Beware Midges!
[Full 'Strawberry' Moon Friday]
Week 2 - Devil paintbrushes & buttercups, snakes, spinning oak seeds, birds eat each other, bugs mate; Beware Ticks!
[Last Quarter Moon on Saturday. At last quarter, the moon always rises around midnight and remains visible in the southern sky during morning daylight]
Week 3 - Solstice Twilight in the Boreal jungle
[Solstice on Saturday; New Moon Sunday]
Week 4 - Grouses galore, sea of small orange butterflies
[First Quarter Moon on Sunday (these moons always rise around noon and set at midnight, so they are visible starting in the afternoon hours), Summer Triangle Arrives]
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Re: Animal Calendar - June 2020
by Hobb Tue 2 Jun 2020 - 23:37
june 1-2 2020
Hawthorn in bloom, a light ammonia scent fills the walk up the hill. Dragonflies and blue azures flitter.
Hawthorn in bloom, a light ammonia scent fills the walk up the hill. Dragonflies and blue azures flitter.
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Re: Animal Calendar - June 2020
by Hobb Wed 3 Jun 2020 - 16:16
June 3rd - In the loft this morning, I see 3 mosquitoes waiting on a window to be let out. They don't seem plump yet but they want to hunt elsewhere. I open the window to the luxurious morning air and two fly off immediately but the third takes steps onto my prodding finger. I watch cautiously as it's proboscis is millimeters from my skin, the longer it stays the more focused my attention becomes as I stay ready to blow it off when it's head droops. Leisurely it lefts and stretchers each of it's four leg while I maintain focus on it's needle-sharp fifth appendage. It's head tilts upwards and she flies off. A small quiet moment with a species I'm often at war with.
Ferns unfurling and ubiquitous strawberry. A hidden patch of starflowers and forget-me-nots, and a single stately bunchberry.
Ferns unfurling and ubiquitous strawberry. A hidden patch of starflowers and forget-me-nots, and a single stately bunchberry.
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Re: Animal Calendar - June 2020
by Hobb Tue 9 Jun 2020 - 11:49
June 5th - A Duck trailed by goslings and a big snapper turtle look in on us as help John put in a dock (dragonfly moult shells on dock). Driving home at night = thick with bugs over bridge. Full Moon.
June 6th - Walk at Trillium path: purple wilted Trillums, Geese and gooslings, red-bellied snake, hummingbird moths, tons of tadpoles (leopard frog mother), nearly full moon dapples moonlight patterns through new leaves
June 7-8th: Another crop of baby squirrels. Starflowers all over (with 5-petal yellow too now). Devil's Paintbrush are sprouted but not bloomed.
June 9: A black squirrel stirring up branches and locals
June 6th - Walk at Trillium path: purple wilted Trillums, Geese and gooslings, red-bellied snake, hummingbird moths, tons of tadpoles (leopard frog mother), nearly full moon dapples moonlight patterns through new leaves
June 7-8th: Another crop of baby squirrels. Starflowers all over (with 5-petal yellow too now). Devil's Paintbrush are sprouted but not bloomed.
June 9: A black squirrel stirring up branches and locals
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Re: Animal Calendar - June 2020
by Hobb Sat 13 Jun 2020 - 3:39
June 10th - warm high wind gusts force evacuation of plastic greenhouse...a Gulf low that came on land in New Orelans only two days earlier
June 12th - unseasonable cold after setting record a week earlier, a fall day as arctic air comes in the wake of a Gulf low. FROST - The whip of winter air rarely leaves us for long. piantbrushes had bloomed but closed in the dusk, no frogs now for two nights, only a distant whippoorwill. only jays and grackles, occasionally hummer. a traumatized chipmunk cub is given comfort and released (good luck on such a chill night).
June 12th - unseasonable cold after setting record a week earlier, a fall day as arctic air comes in the wake of a Gulf low. FROST - The whip of winter air rarely leaves us for long. piantbrushes had bloomed but closed in the dusk, no frogs now for two nights, only a distant whippoorwill. only jays and grackles, occasionally hummer. a traumatized chipmunk cub is given comfort and released (good luck on such a chill night).
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Re: Animal Calendar - June 2020
by Hobb Sat 13 Jun 2020 - 19:38
June 13th - A squad of dark dragonflies claim the front-yard as their hunting ground, pursuing anything smaller than the big yellow butterflies that pass through them like a blue whale among a pack of sharks hassling and consuming schools of fish. The smaller bugs get a sudden reprieve as a southern gust brings in a sky of white fluff confusing the dragonflies as I join them in staring dazzled by the shining clumps and pappi that seems to be descending form the the zenith sun...
...
Past midnight, woken from sleep by the sounds squealing and wooden planks knocking over but it is the non-stop snarling and whimpering that get me out of bed. The deck is empty so with flash-light and walking-stick I head into the front-yard and locate the sounds just inside the southern treeline. A little stick-banging and sweeping the light over that area causes them to them to immediately quiet and retreat. I can hear them semi-stealthy heading back down into the valley as I make a full perimeter check of the yard and wood sheds.
I turn off the flashlight. The stars are beautiful, the dipper twirling over top as the summer triangle appears over the east. The night had been noisy with a loud motorcycle racing back and forth and some generator running next door but it was quiet now. Heading back in, I'm just at the door when I hear a single clear growl from the dark tree-line. I turn and stare back but neither of us makes any more motions or sounds. Back to bed.
The sounds must have been raccoons. But that's not the impression left on my mind. They feel the racoon-dogs of PomPoko or even a pack of goblins. They came as a raucous yet unseen midnight pack and even managed to get the last snarl in... all I know is that where near the ground, snarling, whimpering and squeaking, and operated as a group.
We want to classify everything: what's that bird? what's that flower? Yet it is when nature defies the easy label that we get the richer experience of it. The creatures that visited last night had some of that blurry glory.
...
Past midnight, woken from sleep by the sounds squealing and wooden planks knocking over but it is the non-stop snarling and whimpering that get me out of bed. The deck is empty so with flash-light and walking-stick I head into the front-yard and locate the sounds just inside the southern treeline. A little stick-banging and sweeping the light over that area causes them to them to immediately quiet and retreat. I can hear them semi-stealthy heading back down into the valley as I make a full perimeter check of the yard and wood sheds.
I turn off the flashlight. The stars are beautiful, the dipper twirling over top as the summer triangle appears over the east. The night had been noisy with a loud motorcycle racing back and forth and some generator running next door but it was quiet now. Heading back in, I'm just at the door when I hear a single clear growl from the dark tree-line. I turn and stare back but neither of us makes any more motions or sounds. Back to bed.
The sounds must have been raccoons. But that's not the impression left on my mind. They feel the racoon-dogs of PomPoko or even a pack of goblins. They came as a raucous yet unseen midnight pack and even managed to get the last snarl in... all I know is that where near the ground, snarling, whimpering and squeaking, and operated as a group.
We want to classify everything: what's that bird? what's that flower? Yet it is when nature defies the easy label that we get the richer experience of it. The creatures that visited last night had some of that blurry glory.
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