A Bit Of This & That

 

Hello everyone .

Hope your week has been good to you as has the weather !

Not to much going on here at Our Country Cove just the same old same old … that’s a good thing in our books lol !

Our lawn tractor is in for repair .. a friend who is also our neighbour down the road is taking care of that for us .

Miggs and I have just been puttering and taking our daily walks as the mornings have been nice , cool and dewy .  Sunshine during the day with a bit of humidity and cool breezes . Nights have been cool to .

The gardens are doing well all though some flowers are done for the season whilst others are just full of blooms . These sunflowers are doing wonderfully considering we never planted any lol  We figure they were planted by birds or more then likely one of the critters !

So we decided to leave them and let them grow and maybe I can get some sunflower seed harvest from them ! Talking about gardens , Papa is slowly but surely preparing and building my raised veggie garden for next year !

                               Miggs has been enjoying the warm sun and cool breezes to !

A few little birdies have been playing on our fire pit amongst the tree branches that came down in one of the odd wind storms we have had !

            We put the branches there to dry out . I think the birdies are playing hide and seek lol ! Hope they can find each other as they seem to blend in pretty good here with the branches lol !

                                                        1,2,3 ready or not here we come !

                                                                       Found you !

                                 My Blue bells are full of buds and some are close to blooming !

                    It is a  holiday long weekend for us here in Canada and the weather looks to be just perfect !

                                        Until next time  …. hope you all have a good weekend  !

                                                            Country Gal

Wonder Why ?

 

                     You have hardly seen any Monarch butterfly’s !

                                                  A report from  WWF

Monarchs & Climate Change

Climate change threatens to disrupt the monarch butterfly’s annual migration pattern by affecting weather conditions in both wintering grounds and summer breeding grounds. Colder, wetter winters could be lethal to these creatures and hotter, drier summers could shift suitable habitats north. WWF’s 2013 report from Mexico showed that the number of monarch butterflies wintering there was at its lowest in 20 years. The number is measured by the amount of forest they occupy, and in 2013 the number of butterfly acres decreased from approximately seven to three. Abnormal patterns of drought and rainfall in the U.S. and Canada breeding sites may have caused adult butterfly deaths and less plant food for caterpillars. Fewer butterflies up north mean fewer then migrate south to Mexico for the winter.

Habitat Loss

Monarchs need mountain forests in Mexico for their winter habitat, however nearby human communities also rely on them and create pressure on forests through agriculture and tourism activities.

In the U.S., monarchs need places to reproduce and feed. However, herbicide use is decreasing the availability of their primary food source, the milkweed plant (Asclepias). 

I took these photos last year in September at Hawks cliff just up the road from us and this year I have seen one Monarch !

I do hope mother nature and humans can work together and save this beautiful butterfly !

Country Gal