Last night we were watching TV when something caught my eye outside in the garden. It was a deer. This is slightly unusual as we don’t get many deer around during the summer and even less during daylight. It turned out to be a young stag which is more unusual still. We have only ever had one stag in the garden, usually we get does with young. This one is obviously very young and just starting to get his antlers.
Lets hope we see him again.
It has been very hot this week with temps in the high 20′sC. Today is going to be 28C with humidex putting it up to the low 30′s – toasty! Hopefully we can get some more geocaching done soon. We haven’t been able to recently because of all the rain.
So far the June weather has been all over the place. One day it is hot and sunny, the next cool and raining. In fact rain has been a major factor so far. Lets hope with the onset of official summer soon we can look forward to more warmth and sun.
We did manage to get out geocaching on Saturday. This was our third trip and this time we managed to get seven caches which more than doubles our existing total. We even managed to go back to one we could not find on our first trip and this time found it straight away – it’s amazing how much easier things are when you know how to use the equipment properly. We are still learning the ins and outs of the GPS gadget, but we are getting there. So now we have found 13 geocaches in total – need to find more to get away from that number!
The birds and animals in the garden are all in the process of reproducing. We have seen baby grackles and starlings about. The killdeer have still not presented their young yet, but they cannot be far off now. We also have the many female squirrels who are either very pregnant or seem to have given birth. The babies won’t be around for a few weeks yet, but there seems to be a lot of nursing mothers about.
The cardinals are also out and about, so hopefully they will have young again as we had last year. Here is the male in our front garden. I always feel these birds should be in some tropical rainforest, not up here in Canada, but I am not complaining.
Next week I am going to be taking part in the Relay for Life to raise money for cancer research. This is an all night event and I hope that it doesn’t rain. Anyone who would like to sponsor me for the event please do so. I attach the link below to make a pledge. This can be used to pledge from anywhere in the world.
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