In 2011 we were lucky enough to have a family of foxes living under our shed. There were two parents, another adult, probably a female, who helped watch the cubs, and six little roly poly cubs. Darn, they were cute! I got a few shots of them.
Meet Yolanda, our backyard raccoon. She lives in a strip of woods behind our house that is owned by the county, so her actual home tree is not in our backyard, but we like to think she is ours, partly because of her many foraging trips to our yard. Her tree is a larger tree…
Imagine my shock when I saw a fire-engine red lizard face sticking out of my rock wall in the garden. I yelled for my husband: “There’s a giant salamander out here!” Because of course I know we don’t have lizards in Delaware. Salamanders, however, are a different matter. I see them all the time in…
One creature I haven’t seen in my backyard is the box turtle. Turtles are in decline in my mid-Atlantic region, mostly due to suburban sprawl. The box turtle’s home range is usually about 12 to 14 acres. Box turtles are slow crawlers, extremely long lived, slow to mature, and have relatively few offspring per year….
We are lucky enough to be in a small pocket of an area that is completely free of deer in an area that is completely infested with deer. At least that’s what I used to think. Then this little cutie came ambling up the street, took a right into our yard and grazed her way…
This little guy has been hopping through and browsing from the garden these past few weeks.
We found this little guy wrapped up in a fold of the blue tarp that we use to cover the grill during the winter. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a tree frog, so cute! I had to find out more about them. They have round sticky toe pads that help them travel…
