This morning I happened to glance out the bedroom window and noticed a squirrel checking out the nesting box we have there. We had a squirrel nesting in this box last summer so I kept watching. Sure enough she started collecting grass and bits from the ground stuffing them in the box. She was doing this for quite some time – basically until we put the usual bird food out and her nesting was disrupted by the promise of food.
These are a couple of pics of her collecting stuff and nesting. Now we have to keep an eye on the box to track her progress. Once they have the young they stay in the nest for 4-5 weeks before being weened.
On Sunday we decided to go out on our first geocaching trip. As we had never done this before we chose some local caches and downloaded them to our GPS, printed off the details and off we went. We chose four caches in the County (Prince Edward County) and basically followed the GPS.
The first cache was along a country road running along side the lake which meant we had great views as we travelled. It got very exciting as we neared the spot and then pulled over to the side of the road to investigate. Because of geocaching etiquette I can not give anything away which would disclose the position of the cache. The only thing I will say is the exact co-ordinates were slightly off and hubby went off to the left to get closer to the coordinates and whilst he did I found it pretty much where we had parked. Very easy. Here is a close up pic of me with the cache. I have cropped it a lot in order to avoid giving away the position.
This is therefore our first ever geocache find.
Next we followed our way to another cache which was in a graveyard. Clues led us to a certain spot then we had to find the cache. Once again I was the one to spot it – again I cannot reveal where – I like all this cloak and dagger stuff! Two caches down.
Next we went to another graveyard for the third cache of the day. This one however was not so easy. We had to find a certain point in the graveyard from which to find the cache. We could not find the actual point and when we used the exact coordinates given it led us outside into the road. We assumed that whoever set the coordinates did so from their car outside and not from the actual cache point. After a long time searching we gave up and put it down to our inexperience – we can try it again another time.
Next we went off to our fourth geocache of the day – another graveyard. This took a bit of searching but once we realized where it would be I found it quite easily – yes me again. OH always says that I am not very observant and could pass him in the street and not notice. This is probably true, however I do seem to have a knack of finding small camouflaged 35mm film canisters hidden in strange places!
After all this treasure hunting we went to Montanas for dinner and then home. Hubby registered our finds on the geocaching website once home.
I definitely now have the geocaching bug and immediately went to the website to download even more caches – trouble is it has rained pretty much constantly since our first trip, so we are having to wait for the next one.
Geocaching, Life in Canada, Wildlife | admin May 29, 2009 | 
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