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The salamanders are still at it on their crossing the road trek. This is the most common type we see although there are a few others. I haven't had the camera along when they are out.

Osprey headed south along the river

It is great to look up and see the birds headed to their winter grounds. I've seen a few high flocks but not the usual traffic so I think that we'll be seeing more in the next few weeks. These two photos I took of two out of three osprey that were headed south along the river. They were way up and circling lazily on the generally southward drift of air. I couldn't get all of them in the same shot but did manage these and a few more blurry photos.

The pigs are already getting bigger and have really taken to their pen as you can see in the photos at 'On The Farm' they've pretty much excavated this spot and next week I'll be moving them to the next stage.

The cows are going through their early fall rotation and are cleaning up the pasture like they are starving.

Charles & Queen mother practicing coordinated scratching

Here is the latest photo of Charles Earl of Stroganoff who is One year old this month. He hasn't missed any meals you can be sure. I'm impressed with his size and expect that he will prove an outstanding herd bull. They are waiting for their ration of pears and loud about it as well.

In other on farm animal new news, yesterday was the first visit from a black squirrel. What a beautiful animal that is! I have read that the settlers predominantly hunted the black squirrels because they were much larger than the greys. Over time of course, from this selecting the black squirrels were almost hunted to extinction and the grey squirrels became predominant. We are now seeing more and more of the black squirrels although they are generally much smaller than the greys. Time will show if there are those who still have somewhere hidden the traits for size that I've read about.

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