Expedition Canada

Beer in the Sun to Finish   Fri May 28th It was disappointing to wake to grey overcast day, as the forecast looked more promising.  No more scats in the garden and no overnight visitors. The early walk was a repeat of yesterday afternoon, primarily to try and find my Nikon lens cap that went astray between the start and end of the walk.  No luck - order placed for two more.  Not the first time I've lost one! The male Rufous Hummingbird pitched up again this morning and spent a large part of the day topping up on the homemade nectar (to BC's nectar standards!).  He was great to watch, though he moved pretty quickly to catch a decent picture.  In the end I used a feature on my camera where, set up on a tripod outside, I could control it through my iPhone inside in the warm!  This meant the camera was close and not me!   [For fellow Nikon users I was able to se t the mode, (A,S,M,P), and then speed, aperture and ISO as appropriate...

Loads of it! Deer Poop Thu May 27th Aside from the much needed rain (today should see the back of it), it was a day of animal poop. (Poop = US for poo!). Checking around the garden after Jack's walk, there was a lot of fresh large animal droppings on the shallow bank down to the smaller pond.  We'd had a night-time visitor!   They were larger than the usual UK deer variety, though that it what we think they were.    I did break one apart and it appeared all vegetable! W e have Roosevelt Elk in the area and caught a brief glimpse of a large bull and cow on the other side of Myers Creek as we walked up the first trail this afternoon. There are also three species of deer, White-Tailed, Black-Tailed and Mule Deer.  We suspect it was one of the latter that came in to the garden.  Might even have been more than one as there was a lot of it!  More research needed, or an early start! Bear scats (Not a great name for a West of England - country store!...