My yard does not get mowed, mainly because I have no lawn. My front yard is the Atlantic Ocean and my backyard is a forest.
Recently, I kept hearing this dinosaur-like squawking in the trees and pictured a pterodactyl sitting in a treetop in my backyard. It turned out to be a raven. I say "turned out" because it took some investigation. For me its hard to tell the difference in a crow and raven and unless they are side by side I don't know if I'm looking at a BIG crow or a LITTLE raven. Come to find out, the trick is their tails. Crows have a shell shaped looking fan tail and a Raven has a triangle shaped tail. So. . .This screeching black bird in my back yard had the triangle tail. . .plus it was MASSIVE. I saw it when I went out to jog and it was setting on this tree (the dead one in the center).
It appeared to be waiting for me to die so it could pluck out my eyeballs. Ravens do that, I think.
The fog has been pretty much a constant the last week (it actually broke today) and here are some photos taken along my foggy jogging trail (which is also my driveway):
It may not look like it, but part of my backyard is VERY boggy. I'm not sure how the trees grow in it, here is a blurry photo of some of the standing water:
This bog is protected by a very powerful nature spirit who employs millions of mosquitoes who patrol in squadrons after squadrons on search and destroy missions. I'm fairly certain that if you look at one under a microscope you would see not only their individual squadron markings but kill marks and nose art (actually, probably "Proboscis Art") with kill marks like WWII airplanes did.
