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[Alaskan]

A few shots of my place... the last days of summer.

Fall has started.

Hen with her half grown chicks.

Ducks walking back from the pond to the coop to sleep.

 

[bobbi-j]

A few shots of my place... the last days of summer.

Fall has started.

Hen with her half grown chicks.
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Ducks walking back from the pond to the coop to sleep.View attachment 1524017

Fall is here, too. It's what I call "Yellow Season". The yellow wildflowers are blooming, the trees are turning yellow (not many pretty red or orange ones here), and the crops are ripening - the soybeans' leaves are all yellow, and the corn is turning brown.

 

[ronott1]

No trouble to be had. We did a hike that was advertised as a 3.2 mile loop but was actually a 6 mile death march. We rock scrambled up some waterfalls to take some pictures. We canoed and kayaked. We laughed. We ate a lot. We slept poorly.
We saw a baby black bear.

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Nice Hike!

I have had hikes turn out longer than they were supposed to by...when I took the wrong turn...

 

[ronott1]

A few shots of my place... the last days of summer.

Fall has started.

Hen with her half grown chicks.
View attachment 1524016

Ducks walking back from the pond to the coop to sleep.View attachment 1524017

It is very pretty there without snow!

 

[microchick]

We have tropical storm Gordon taking aim at Missouri by the weekend. We need the rain badly as we are in an extreme drought. Just don't want to get 20 inches in 24 hours.

@Alaskan, I read where y'all had your first winter storm warning up there last week. How far away from you was that? Doesn't look like you got any snow, which is good.

@bobbi-j You can just start to feel the change in the air here. The black walnut trees are dropping their leaves but there are some late blooming wild flowers that are still putting on a show. Due to the drought, the corn is shutting down. Farmers are reported to be harvesting it for fodder at this point.

The big thing is the hummingbirds. We have 18 to 24 swarming two feeders all day. We are refilling at least twice a day. Yesterday we took turns seeing how close we could get to the feeders without disturbing their nectar orgy. At one point I had one little girl hovering about 4 inches from my nose just starting at me while I tried to play statue. They didn't mind us standing next to the feeders watching them.

They are just amazing little birds. Them gorging to put on weight is just a sign that fall is coming. Usually they migrate by the middle of Sept.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are seeing fall come in here temps down to 70's scg you saw baby bear Mom was not far off you where lucky that way .... quite feeding the wild birds in front the cats where using them to trap birds to eat

 

[bobbi-j]

We have tropical storm Gordon taking aim at Missouri by the weekend. We need the rain badly as we are in an extreme drought. Just don't want to get 20 inches in 24 hours.

@Alaskan, I read where y'all had your first winter storm warning up there last week. How far away from you was that? Doesn't look like you got any snow, which is good.

@bobbi-j You can just start to feel the change in the air here. The black walnut trees are dropping their leaves but there are some late blooming wild flowers that are still putting on a show. Due to the drought, the corn is shutting down. Farmers are reported to be harvesting it for fodder at this point.

The big thing is the hummingbirds. We have 18 to 24 swarming two feeders all day. We are refilling at least twice a day. Yesterday we took turns seeing how close we could get to the feeders without disturbing their nectar orgy. At one point I had one little girl hovering about 4 inches from my nose just starting at me while I tried to play statue. They didn't mind us standing next to the feeders watching them.

They are just amazing little birds. Them gorging to put on weight is just a sign that fall is coming. Usually they migrate by the middle of Sept.

Our hummingbirds are usually gone by mid-September, also. For some reason, I only have two of them this year, and they're so busy fighting over the feeder, they don't have time to eat! I think part of the reason we're not seeing them at the feeder so much this year is, we have an 84-acre field right by the house that is filled with pollinator friendly plants. They may be busy out there. I have actually put my finger under the feeding port of the feeder and had them sit on it to eat. I love those little birds, and look forward to their return every May.

 

[Alaskan]

Fall is here, too. It's what I call "Yellow Season". The yellow wildflowers are blooming, the trees are turning yellow (not many pretty red or orange ones here), and the crops are ripening - the soybeans' leaves are all yellow, and the corn is turning brown.

Here all trees turn yellow... all bushes and weeds turn red. Kinda cool

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan, I read where y'all had your first winter storm warning up there last week. How far away from you was that? Doesn't look like you got any snow, which is good.

Huh? Never heard that. Must have been some place else... Alaska is huge.

We don't even have termination dust.

 

[microchick]

I just looked it up. It was way up by Barrow like, no big surprise there.

Our hummers usually come in the first of May and are all gone by the third week in Sept. Usually start thinning out the middle of the month.

Haven't seen any migratory geese yet though which is fine with me!