By Riva Hawkes
Phone: 463-2483
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sharpnack and daughter, Amy, arrived recently from their home state of Maryland to visit with relatives, Riva Hawkes and Anne Townsend, for several days. The blackflies have disappeared and the mosquitoes have not been too bad so, hopefully, all will enjoy their visit here in northern Maine.
Ed and Jo Wood have returned to their home in Wilton, N.H., after spending a week at their cottage on upper Mattawamkeag Lake and doing a bit of riding around to enjoy the views of Mt. Katahdin and surrounding area. They plan to return later and do it all over again soon.
I had quite a surprise the other day when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something moving in my backyard near the flagpole I have there, and there was a big wild turkey and trailing behind her were 10 baby chicks, all struggling to keep up with her. They were really small and hard to see because of the grass, but I counted carefully. They kept on going and disappeared into the woods. I haven’t seen them since but am keeping an eye out, just in case.
I have had a grand time switching the bird feeders from one location to the other and therefore have frustrated those big gray squirrels and also the small red ones. Nevertheless, they got used to it all and are back to their usual routine of eating all the sunflower seeds they can.
I still keep seeing the yellow finch and chickadees, who fly in after the squirrels leave, or even before they get there, so am happy to see they are still around. Cardinals are hard to spot, as a rule, but I keep looking in the early morning and around 7 p.m. Hopefully they are still around.
There are still no deer seen grazing down back — usually all I see down there are several big black crows, who arrive every evening to eat whatever they can find in the grass.
