I live no where near water and there is a muskrat living under my shed. It’s been there for three years now and is perfectly fine. Should I relocate it or not?
If you burned in the spring, most likely the beech will resprout. A summer or fall burn might be more effective if you have dry enough conditions to get the litter to burn. Basically you need to hit the beech before it has put resources back into the ground.
Loved the article. Rules on meat processing changed drastically for me when I moved out here to Colorado 4 years ago. Deer/elk seasons generally much warmer and you need to skin out and get your animal to a processor pronto. They’ll hang it in cooler for awhile before cutting. Shot my first elk in 2014 and that was an education! Quartered and took straps, tenderloin and flank and neck meat in the field, wrapped in game bags and hiked out 175 lbs. of meat. Never had to gut the animal.
The sap run is predicated on a freeze/thaw cycle. So, it needs to freeze at night and then get warm during the day. You’ll get maybe four weeks out of your tapholes if you’re lucky—after that the tree will stop running. So look for a window in early spring where you’ll have a block of that weather. When you see the weather forecast saying a week of highs in the 40s or 50s and lows in the 20s, tap then.
You often see flocks of loons at the beaches in winter here in southern New England.
I’ve seen anywhere from a pair up to about 20.
The strange thing to me is that they’re silent, they don’t make any kind of call.
We are one of the winter destinations for both the Common Loon and a lesser number of Red-Throated Loons. Most of Long Island Sound and the waters off Rhode Island and Massachusetts are winter homes to the Loons.
Such an informative article. The loons are such magnificent creatures and their call is well known. If you listen in movies, whenever there is a quiet, peaceful moment there is always the call of the loon you hear. The photography is exceptional, capturing such rare moments.
I lived in Minnesota 23 yrs..We used to go to Mission Beach in Northern Minnesota in the summer to camp..The Loons were plentiful..Came right over to the boat with their babies. Love the sound of their crooning..Miss that…
I have several large red maples on my property and thought about trying to do syrup next year. I am in North Carolina, is it possible to tap this far south? I’m sure that the season is earlier than up north, how do you know when to tap?
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