Around The Farm

The little horses and big cows continue to eat hay and lazily wait for springtime to arrive:

The white fantail pigeons are all excited and starting to build nests:

One female had a nest on the floor last year and repeatedly laid eggs which never hatched. She either had no mate or had a mate who didn't help her with the nest. This year she's built a new nest and I've seen a male with her a few times. Alas, they both leave the nest so often that there's probably not much hope for any eggs hatching:

The hens would love to go outside when the snow melts, and I might even let them have a few excursions out into the big world when the weather improves:

But they're safe from foxes inside right now and once I have new plants in the ground, the plants will need to be safe from the chickens. The hens will be indoors again once I've planted:

Two little hens are laying eggs every other day now and I can't even keep up with eating them. I'll soon be hard boiling them for the dogs again:

This is another item on my wall, antlers from a Black-tailed deer, a gift from my Oregon relatives when I was a boy:

The chainsaw bear was a gift from my sister, and sits atop an old milk can which came with the farm:

The welded steel bird was another gift from my sister. The painting is on boards and represents an old style:

The painting is an imitation of a painting from the 1800s and this explanation is glued to the back of it. Even the imitation is getting old now, and the explanation is becoming difficult to read. This painting was a gift from a woman I knew when I first moved to the northeast many decades ago:

I was coming home from the feed store and almost to my driveway (that's my north field up on the hill behind the trees), when a big flock of turkeys was trying to cross the road. I stopped to watch and take a photo, but then they stopped also, and began to retreat:

But they are big and bold, so changed their minds and soared above my car in a display of real flying power. These birds were at home in the air and not at all like domestic turkeys: