Many, many years ago. when Reagan was president, i had no degree of any kind, and Jon was unemployed, we were of course as poor as church mice and couldn’t afford a honeymoon at a fancy hotel. We packed up the champagne and the leftovers from the simple gathering and drove to my parents land in the sierras which at the time had only a tiny 1950-‘s trailer to sleep in. That night we sat outside by the fire pit until the snow drove us in, drinking champagne from the bottle and picking bits of rigatoni and cold chicken out of foil wrapped paper plates.
It was a smorgasboard of special leftovers. And that’s what you get this morning. Tasty leftover treats from our friends and family.
The first is from our friends at the Sierra Wildlife Coalition, which has been taking full advantage of their trail cams in this late ending winter season.
It’s it nice to see family members working side by side and getting about their business? Which at the moment includes getting ready for more mouths to feed. I can’t help it. After spending 10 years eagerly waiting for our first glimpse of kits I still get excited as we get closer to summer.
The second is from A new England facebook page made up of footage from different wildlife cams. This of a beaver making a scent mount.
Scent marking remains the single beaver behavior we haven’t filmed in Martinez, which means they must be plenty careful about when and where they do it. We’ve filmed mating twice, but never scent marking OR chewing trees. I guess it has to do with the on land versus in the water thing.
The third appeared in yesterday’s Contra Costa Times and was sent by several beaver friends.
Heh, heh, heh.
This of course seems as good a time as any to report the highlight of my favorite Cinco de Mayo ever. Salud!
