Monthly Archives: June 2018
Nodding trillium
Oak and Poplar fusion
From the other side:
High bush cranberry
Columbine
Baby woodchucks
A few months ago I saw a rare melanistic, or black, woodchuck. He was probably scouting out female woodchucks, as the males come out of hibernation earlier to do just that, and I saw him a quarter mile away another day.
In the first location I spotted him that time, there now lives a mother and at least five babies.
They scattered when I approached with my camera. The mother gave a loud whistle, which wound down to a quavering whistling chirp. Over and over again. Most of the babies had dived into a tunnel on one side of the mound. One little guy jumped into a different tunnel entrance, but then came out and stood at the entrance looking back at the mother, not very obedient at all!
The mother woodchuck glared at me.
More butterflies
Small white butterfly
I caught sight of something white. Was it a fallen flower petal?, was my first thought.
Then I looked at it from the other side.