Petey thinks pocket gophers are very cute. A huh.
Pocket gophers are amazing rodents, spending almost all of their life underground in the tunnels they build. How deep are the tunnels and how far do they go? I’ve observed water in an irrigated field disappear down a gopher hole and never fill up. Whoa! Talk about getting water and air into the earth. These rascal are environmental engineers. And even though they can be pesky around your homestead, they are very cute.
I was mistaken about Arivaca’s vulture celebration. It is not early March, but later in the month. Apologies to them, but hey, the good...
I’ll let you know how this all goes. I have many acorns to plant, but I like growing little oaks and we’ve done this...
The miller moths that showed up at our little homestead are the adult of the army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) and they migrate from lower...
