Into August

I only posted once in July. We had some very hot days in July after much rain then the temperatures began to moderate as did some of the rains. The beaver tries to stuff up the new culvert every evening, but so far no overflows. We did have  a sink hole that developed in the wetlands crossing and Lindley fixed that up and I finished it up.
August is now being August with black and blueberries ripening, black eyed Susans dotting the landscape...sounds merging into cricket sounds from the trilling of the tree frogs. Fish are getting bigger and animals that like to feed on the fish are coming more frequently to the ponds.
Lindley found bear scat in the back. They are also feeding up while their is plenty.
Lots of Japanese beetles this year.
Other wild life sightings recently:
scarlet tanagers
cedar waxwings
Northern strike
pine warblers
kingfishers
swallows
chipping sparrows
pickerel frog
worm snake (front garden)
lots of dragonflies