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rain_gryphonI saw an Otter crossing the road! Exceptionally well-fed Otter too, or else pregnant. I don't know when their season for having babies is.
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Very aggressive Robin in what's left of the maple tree by the driveway. In about 30 minutes of sitting out front, I saw him chase off an Oriole (which you seldom see here), then a big Grackle cock. Robins are usually fairly mellow. I wondered at first if the Oriole's bright orange was upsetting to the Robin (cocks get twitchy in breeding season sometimes), but then he went after the Grackle too. I think he's just very touchy about his core territory right now. This is the tree that I lost part of last week, so I wonder if that has some bearing. There's bound to be a nest up there, but I don't see it.
If there was a nest in there that got wrecked, I didn't find any eggs or hatchlings, and I think I would have, since I raked pretty thoroughly. Robin's nests that fall in storms usually leave little blobs of muddy sticks, too.
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Very aggressive Robin in what's left of the maple tree by the driveway. In about 30 minutes of sitting out front, I saw him chase off an Oriole (which you seldom see here), then a big Grackle cock. Robins are usually fairly mellow. I wondered at first if the Oriole's bright orange was upsetting to the Robin (cocks get twitchy in breeding season sometimes), but then he went after the Grackle too. I think he's just very touchy about his core territory right now. This is the tree that I lost part of last week, so I wonder if that has some bearing. There's bound to be a nest up there, but I don't see it.
If there was a nest in there that got wrecked, I didn't find any eggs or hatchlings, and I think I would have, since I raked pretty thoroughly. Robin's nests that fall in storms usually leave little blobs of muddy sticks, too.
