Last week a lizard, this week an Eastern Box Turtle appeared at my house. This fellow was cutting through my yard when it encountered the fence line. After a couple of attempts to fit through the space between the fence boards, it decided a better course of action was to bury itself under a pile of pine needles and get out of the mid-day sun. It’s best to leave turtles alone and not move them, unless they are on a road. Then you should move them directly across the road in the same direction they were traveling.

It’s nice to see a lot more Black-capped Chickadees at my feeders this year.  Over the last several years, the population had apparently decreased quite a bit and seeing a chickadee was fairly rare, but this year I see them on a daily basis.