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May 17 2010

  • Refreshed 13 Hummingbird feeders

Posted in 2010 Journal, Food

May 15 2010

  • Only .3 Inches of rain
  • Saw a fox at the feeding area
  • saw a male Painted Bunting
  • 3 dead mice found in cistern overflow (caretakers sealed all openings for mice on roof gutters)
  • Monarch caterpillars on Antelope Horn
  • Two Toads seen at dusk
  • cut and mulched Junipers directly under Cedar Elms (along driveway)

 

                        captured caterpillar grown into a Moth

 

another view of the Moth grown from a caterpillar (see story April 27, 2010)

Posted in 2010 Journal, Census

May 13 2010

  • refreshed all Hummingbird feeders and filled ant guard cups with water
  • Saw Golden-cheeked Warbler at watering pans behind Rain barn
  • Saw Monarch butterfly caterpillars on Antelope Horn

Caretakers note: Netting was secured around the Antelope Horn plant to protect the Monarch Butterfly chrysalis from wasps and to observe

Posted in 2010 Journal

May 10 2010

  • rescued a Lizard being eaten by a snake

                                         Central Texas Whip Snake

Posted in 2010 Journal, Census

May 08 2010

  • shot one adult female Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Saw two juvenile Raccoons in seed pile at house
  • Saw one young Possum
  • Saw two young Rock Squirrels
  • Saw a female Painted Bunting
  • Saw a male Painted Bunting

                                          Male Painted Bunting

Posted in 2010 Journal, Census, Predator

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