Quicksand Farm Wildlife Preserve
A Photographic Diary....

We are a 40 acre blackland farmland area located 15 miles east of Austin, Texas....

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Feb 2007

Jul 2007

August 07

Greek proverb.....A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit.....I believe in that.

August 3, 2007 Keiffer pears ready to pick....
 From April to August....is that magic or what?

#816 Eggbed
An example of art following life....apparently the chicken snake has just dropped by. This piece of metal art I created to recognize the value of our chicken, guineas, peacocks and ducks, an occasional turkey and many birds of the wilder sort but always excluding geese who are a little more opinionated than we allow.

 

August 6, 2007..... More chicken snakes

.....I caught the 5th chicken snake in the chicken house in the last two weeks. I caught two at once one evening this week.. Years ago my wife had invited coworkers for dinner, that night I was closing the door to the yard chickens and found a chicken snake eating eggs, I grabbed it while holding the flashlight in the other hand. Then I saw another so I put the flashlight in my mouth and grabbed the second one. The guests were quite shocked when I walked in the kitchen with the flashlight beaming and two reptiles draping down on each side of me.

Usually I drive the snakes down the road to a corn field nearby with no residents in the area and release them. I hold my hand out the window with the snake hanging like a kite tail to it's new domicile. Snakes do an important job helping keep other mice, rats and small rabbits controlled not to mention just hatched baby chicks.