We had a solid frost last night, and the deer are on the move through white tipped grass this morning.
I'm a city boy pretending to be a woodsman here, but there must be a lot of mice out there. I'm watching a good sized red tailed hawk out on the light pole, and it's been around for a solid week. There's also a bald eagle that's been floating around bothering the smaller birds. And a new one that's interesting when you have cemeteries behind and in front of your house - a group of large turkey vultures are coming through regularly. That's a first for me.
When the vultures are circling overhead, I slow down on all the yard work. They see a white haired guy moving slowly and they stick around so I can get a good look.
It's coming together. When I was cleaning the shed/greenhouse, I spotted a few black widow spiders. They aren't common in Canada, but are somehow established in a small area here. As climate changes, so do the creatures that watch out for us. They were semi-mythical creatures in books when I was a kid, and now they're my neighbours. I'm sure when the shed was decaying, there were lots of them, and stripping it to the frame and putting plastic up to make a greenhouse exposes them. I see way way more of them this Spring than I saw in the first year.
Today, I have a small set of water changes, as I gradually get things set up for me to be away for a week or so. I don't feed any extra before I go anywhere, but I do make sure the fish have had quality fare, and I make sure the water is really good. When I get back, the tank keeping season will be kicking in. The sunlight will warm the room up a bit, and I'll get to breeding a lot (I hope) of fish. I breed the warmer water fish in summer, when I don't need heaters for young rainbows. The killies usually get busy in early, cooler summer, then shut down when it gets hot. The tetras have to wait til their breeding season in November. It gives me a steady supply of puzzles to solve.
I love LM fishing too. It's just a different kind of fishing.
