Maybe you thought we reached the limit of unusual wildlife sightings in Mountain City? I sure wondered, until James Polk tidbitted on Resurrection Sunday evening. “While enjoying a late Easter afternoon snack on our back porch, we were blessed by the appearance of a pair of Black-bellied Whistling Tree Ducks. First time we had ever [...]
by PAULINE TOM “Yes, this was seen in Mountain City” appears most every week in “Montage”. Walking across lawns on Hemlock last week: seven wild turkeys. The resident who reported the spectacle was not drinking Wild Turkey. See page 3C. I saw a daytime Armadillo running across Lynn Cobb’s yard, still without her baby. She [...]
“What’s that? a cat?”, Ron wondered as BoD and KissMe called our attention to something running across The Polley’s yard, as we sat down to lunch in early March. I rushed outside with my phone to take a photograph when I realized it was an … armadillo! Ron joined me and headed off the little tubby tank as it ran across The Burich’s lawn. Blind as an armadillo, it almost ran across my feet as I snapped, snapped, snapped.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh-garita. It’s that time of year again, when yellow blossoms burst forth with honey fragrance. In late January, a few early blossoms appeared this year.
If there’s not one way for an aging house to have water problems, there’s another. Many of the houses in Mountain City were built about the same time. The Mountain City Oaks subdivision was developed in stages, so your neighbors’ houses are about the same age as yours, unless yours was built on a vacant lot after the development stage.
Black vultures drew Salli Wilson’s attention to her neighbor’s yard on Maple Drive. Coyotes had killed a baby Axis deer. Coyotes often come into the Wilson’s backyard.
Time again for a “beware of venomous snakes” warning. “Wow! Look at this!,” I heard RonTom exclaim from outside the office window, as a yellow-stripe-on-top Texas Garter Snake slithered into an opening in the French drain in our planter box. The snake certainly appeared longer than the average max of 30-inches. That was on a warm day before it warmed up several weeks ago.
Have you noticed fewer Northern Cardinals (“redbirds”)? At a Bunco Christmas gathering in December, Laura Craig mentioned an immense reduction over the past several years.
