Training Log Archive: Charlie

A lot more in the garden, weeding, planting more basil and about 200 sunflower seeds. The yellow-bellied sapsucker has been relentless, banging away all day on the fence posts, the sound amplified by the vibrating of the wire fence strands. I was thinking that working so hard on cedar posts was an inferior strategy, but then I got close enough to realize that the clever fellow was actually banging on the plastic insulators that the fence wires go through. The sides of each one are concerned with rough spots composed of thousands of tiny holes. He certainly is persistent.

With Rhonda, Tullio and Elaine at the lake, first outing with Tullio in months. He claims not to have been walking at all, and the pace was definitely slower than when we were walking before. Saw a nice ribbon snake, who skedaddled much too fast to get his picture, and then another species of wildlife: a young man jogging purposefully with a weight vest, looked to be about 20 lbs.