Although work and life has kept me busy and away more than I like from my time spent in the yard and in nature, there have been some nice surprise “firsts” this year:
- My first bald eagle sighting (on my commute home)
- My first praying mantis find (at the Natural History Museum in Brewster)
- My first extremely juvenile snapper turtle (barely 2 inches long, on Thacher Shore Road, Yarmouth – an exact miniature likeness of the mature turtle)
- My first woodchuck experience (exciting and frustrating all at once)
- My first dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) bloom (the plant grew from rootstock less than an inch long)
- My first screech owl home invasion
- My first time being hit by a white-tailed deer (correct, not the other way around)
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