Tulalip wildlife watching
Mar. 29th, 2020 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladysnarkydame I saw a beaver in a ditch today.
It was alive, busily doing whatever a beaver has to do in a ditch behind a currently empty casino and also a very not empty Home Depot. Then, a little further along the same road, in the same ditch, there was a flock of about eight chickens, also busily doing things in that ditch. Presumably things unrelated to the beaver.
I haven't seen the neighbor's chickens lately, though I hear them occasionally. And also what I presume is a goat, because only a goat could possibly sound like that.
I have instead seen (at my bird feeders) lots and lots and OMG so many chickadees and junkos and sparrows and finches and hummingbirds, and a pair of morning doves, a chipmunk, and several squirrels.
I thought one of the squirrels was a red squirrel, instead of the normal grey ones around here - but turns out it was probably a Douglas squirrel instead. Neat!
I'm watching the birds and squirrels a lot, because I'm home a lot right now. Not as much as I think I should be, but while my store is closed to customers, we're still going in to pack online orders and answer phones, and accept shipments that were already on the train before all this came down. "We" being the store manager, the assistant manager, and me, mostly, pulling four hour shifts 4 days a week. everybody else on staff is taking paid administrative leave, or using up vacation time or sick time as they see fit.
So. I'm mostly home, watching birds, and playing the new Animal Crossing game, which is fabulous and comforting and super chill.
And I saw a beaver in a ditch today, which was awesome. :D
It was alive, busily doing whatever a beaver has to do in a ditch behind a currently empty casino and also a very not empty Home Depot. Then, a little further along the same road, in the same ditch, there was a flock of about eight chickens, also busily doing things in that ditch. Presumably things unrelated to the beaver.
I haven't seen the neighbor's chickens lately, though I hear them occasionally. And also what I presume is a goat, because only a goat could possibly sound like that.
I have instead seen (at my bird feeders) lots and lots and OMG so many chickadees and junkos and sparrows and finches and hummingbirds, and a pair of morning doves, a chipmunk, and several squirrels.
I thought one of the squirrels was a red squirrel, instead of the normal grey ones around here - but turns out it was probably a Douglas squirrel instead. Neat!
I'm watching the birds and squirrels a lot, because I'm home a lot right now. Not as much as I think I should be, but while my store is closed to customers, we're still going in to pack online orders and answer phones, and accept shipments that were already on the train before all this came down. "We" being the store manager, the assistant manager, and me, mostly, pulling four hour shifts 4 days a week. everybody else on staff is taking paid administrative leave, or using up vacation time or sick time as they see fit.
So. I'm mostly home, watching birds, and playing the new Animal Crossing game, which is fabulous and comforting and super chill.
And I saw a beaver in a ditch today, which was awesome. :D
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Date: 2020-03-30 10:16 am (UTC)Glad you're doing okay (I haven't played it but it seems like the new Animal Crossing was perfectly timed, it's just what everyone needs rn!)
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Date: 2020-03-31 08:52 pm (UTC)The new Animal Crossing hit at ~exactly~ the right time, sheesh. Couldn't have planned it better.
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Date: 2020-03-30 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-03-31 07:38 pm (UTC)Sounds like you're enjoying your bird feeders just as much as I'm enjoying mine. It's such a great way to get to know the local wildlife.
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Date: 2020-03-31 08:51 pm (UTC)