Fall is creeping up ever so slowly in the fields around us .. |
It has been a very quiet week, nothing much has happened and I've only been able to scramble just a few pictures together.
Here's one of some of our yearly visitors around this time .. Canadian geese, getting out of dodge and on their way south!
Their honking calls when flying over and landing in the fields remind me of a Swedish childhood TV-series I used to watch called 'Nils Holgersson", an animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a
naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf together with his pet hamster Carrot but granted the ability to talk with animals. He goes through
many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.
The water level in the little collection pond in the fields behind us is now low enough (because of the drought) that I can walk around it.
It's a little muddy and I have to be careful not to get stuck in the muck but it adds a fun new walk to my repertoire.
I often encounter this little Ringed Plover at the lake's edge all by him/herself. They usually come at least in pairs .. I wonder if it's lost it's partner somehow?
The swallows are still around but are congregating more and more and in larger groups on the electric wires of the utility poles .. I think it won't be long before they take off to their warmer wintering areas in Central and South America.
Many of them will come back right here next year. I've read that about 44 percent of all barn swallows will return to nest in the same area they nested the previous year.
Fall also means the return of .. spiders!
Although they're actually around throughout the year, autumn is a time when most spiders begin to mate and the chances of seeing one sprint around the house heighten in the fall, because it's likely the spiders are looking for partners.
Yikes! I'm so not into spiders!
Their webs I grudgingly admire, like the dense funnel-ones above made by Grass spiders, but the creepy, crawly things themself ... brrrr!
And that was all for this week. Like I said, it ain't much but that's life, sometimes it just isn't very exciting .. next time!
Let's have dinner outside shall we?
That was a delicious rib-eye steak by the way! |