I just read an article in the online version of the Cape Cod Times: Great white’s capture big surprise | CapeCodOnline.com. (no longer available at this time) about a shark found dead/ What was it doing here in the winter? I had written about this shark earlier this month. At the time some were of […]
Archive for January, 2011
Dead, or alive after all? – The big surprise surrounding the great white’s capture.
Posted in Fauna, Interesting on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Vulture Culture
Posted in Fauna, Guest blogger, Interesting on January 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was watching the Weather Channel at a local bar last night and saw an unusual sight, 3 black vultures videoptaped in New Jersey holding their wings out as if they were frozen; the caption on the screen read “Frozen Vultures in New Jerseyâ€. Alarmed by the thought that they had not migrated where they […]
Many hands make light work
Posted in Interesting on January 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I want to quickly introduce a new contributor to the Cape Cod Woodland Garden blog. Leah will be adding viewpoints on ecology, animals & plants in the news, and maybe even her favorites, namely spiders and owls. Like me, she has a wide variety of interests, and she may discuss things that happen off-Cape, over […]
Recycling the winter and the sea
Posted in Interesting, Tips on January 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a long winter already, and if you are pondering the upcoming spring by the fireplace, you may want to consider the possibilities of what that fire can contribute to your garden. Yes – I am referring to the ash, left over from burning all that wood in the fireplace. Wood ash is a […]
Welcoming a new visitor
Posted in Fauna, Interesting on January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Certhia americana – the brown creeper – may be a familiar visitor to your garden or your feeder, but I’ve never observed one until today. We get the usual crowd any given day feasting on the suet I provide in the winter: woodpeckers – downies, hairies and red-breasted (females), white-breasted nuthatch, northern flicker (mostly females), […]
Oh come on…
Posted in Rants & Raves on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sir – no worries, your vehicle will be available Tuesday, and you are all set. Now it is Thursday, and I am not set. The finance guy goes missing (granted, some folks did get considerable amounts of snow). They can’t find the documentation (really? What happened to all those photocopies that were made last week?). […]
More white stuff?
Posted in Interesting, Rants & Raves on January 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Weatherwise, it hasn’t been all that quiet since the last December snow storm that dumped a foot of the white powder. We’ve had a couple of inches here and there, and just three days ago on Saturday we received a persistent blanket of six inches or so. Persistent because it is still covering the grass […]
Pioneers
Posted in Flora, Interesting on January 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Most people don’t realize that a tree covered Cape Cod, as we know it now, is a fairly new phenomenon that has roots in the early part of the last century. Of course, there were dense woods before the European settlers arrrived, but once those folks decided to make a home in the New World, it meant […]
Acquiring plants for your garden
Posted in Interesting, Tips on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Where do my plants come from? Although I found some native plants present in my yard already, I’ve added well over a hundred different species by purchasing plants and seed. I’ve done both with good results. The following places (some are just in my neck of the woods) are worth checking out: Project Native (Housatonic, MA): http://www.projectnative.org […]
Oh deer
Posted in Fauna, Interesting, Rants & Raves on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Deer have come up a few times recently. Everyone is complaining about how there are too many deer on Cape Cod. I’ve only seen them sporadically around 6A. Saw a buck once in Nickerson state park a few years back. I never felt like we’re being overrun by them – I tend to think there […]