Tag: wildlife

Talking To The Birds

A Girl In A Complex World

We have 2 bird houses on our property that have a family of barn swallows living in them. The babies have hatched in one house and the others will be any day now.

These are such interesting creatures. Both parents care for the young and are always within sight. I often sit on my patio and watch them coming and going, listening to their beautiful songs.

This evening I had the urge to talk to this one particular bird that was sitting on the wire above me and lo and behold, he/she responded! I continued making this noise with my lips and the next thing I knew, the bird from the other house joined in! You can see the second bird on the wire in the distance.

I took this video because no one would believe me if I told them I could talk to the birds! Here’s proof!

(Be sure to turn up your volume.)

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Coyotes Are On The Prowl

A Girl In A Complex World

We are now nearing the coyote mating season here in the province of Newfoundland.

February through March, coyotes are extemely agressive and active. They will be on the prowl looking for food and have been known to climb a 12ft fence with no trouble at all. Recently two hunters in the USA found a coyote den with over 50 dog and cat collars. There’s no telling how many they killed that didn’t have a collar on.

A coyote can literally wait in the shadows while you take your little dog out for a potty break, you turn your head and that’s how long it can take for you to lose your precious fur baby!

They have adapted to being the best skilled hunters. They go into peoples backyards and on back patios and even front porches.

The picture above is disturbing. Yes. The coyote had someone’s cat (not sure what specific area this was). But I post it for a reason. Not to scare people but to bring awareness to the reality of the kind of predators that are out there and to hopefully make fellow pet owners become more vigilant about the safety of our fur babies. Losing a pet to a hungry coyote is not something anyone wants to see or read about. Much better to see a warning than a true news report.

You don’t think it will happen in your yard … until it does. This time last year when letting my 2 dogs out to potty before going to bed I heard them barking and on going out to see what it was all about, there were 2 large coyotes standing on the beach, about 10 feet outside of our gate, just looking up at my dogs and I. I will never forget their eyes when I made eye contact with them. Thankfully no one got hurt that night. But it could have had a different ending.

So PLEASE protect your dogs and cats when outside! Don’t let what happened to the above pictured cat be the fate of YOUR precious pet!