It’s BEAUTIFUL out today. The perfect spring day. Sunny, mid-60’s, light breeze. FINALLY, feels like spring.
I got out and turned over my one bed for onions or scallions, haven’t decided yet. Got some turnips and a scallion patch started. And set up my carrot buckets and started two of them. The other two will wait a month or so I can stagger the crops. I planted a hybrid variety of carrot that’s supposed to mature in less than 60 days and the Nantes coreless that’s 60-70.
Carrot seeds are tough to save cause we have lots of Queen Anne’s Lace around here.
And just before I came in, I saw an eagle circling over our property! Then it dove down behind some trees not far away and never reappeared so I’m hoping there’s a nest nearby.
Do they eat woodchucks?
My daffodils are also showing. not blooming yet but leaves are up. My crocuses are up too, and as long as it doesn’t get too warm, they’ll last a while.
A woodchuck would make a fine meal, but I think it might be too big for them to scoop up and fly away with. That’s how they kill their prey - take it up into the air (after injuring it with their talons) and then they drop it from above! Bombs Away!
I have seen a nature film of an Eagle tackling a small goat on a mountainside - but same thing - it just harassed the thing until it fell, then ate it after it tumbled to the bottom.
Mother Nature is pretty ruthless! Eat or be eaten! ;)