creatures with legs (except the snakes)
I really like New Hampshire (it case you hadn’t figured it out yet).
Today we (including six houseguests) donned our overalls and moseyed over to the neighbors’ pond for a great frog hunt. We weren’t disappointed and found lots of great frogs. And fish and tadpoles and salamanders.
The animals that I’ve seen so far (and are common):
Barred owl
Moose
Herons
Loon
Mother duck and eight ducklings
Frogs (bullfrogs and green frogs and tadpoles and all other states of frogginess)
Toads
Chipmunks
Turkeys
Bear
Deer
Squirrels
Fox
Porcupine
Yorkies
Geese
Spiders (big black ones live in the basement with me)
Small children
Hummingbirds
Woodpeckers
Robins and other assorted Normal Birds
Skunk
Rabbits
Woodchuck
Garter snakes
I’ve missed seeing the fisher cat and raccoon.
All of these have been seen close to home if not in our own yard. Oh yeah!
I can imagine: a herd of wild Yorkies running down a moose and adhering to its ankles with their pointy little fangs, then gnawing it to the ground, an inch at a time, until nothing is left but antlers and bloated Yorkies. Finally the bloodcurdling cry resounding through the mountains, The Yap of the Baskervilles.
How about flocks of garter snakes, grazing on verdant frogs by the sylvan shore?
oh, brother – you’re as bad as kirk. i love you anyway.