Wednesday, 4th June 2025

Look who I found in the kitchen!

There were aurora alerts this week, but I didn't have any luck seeing one. It was still nice to go out and have some fresh air.

Saturday, 14th June 2025

It's that time of year! The ravens are getting together in big groups and cawing, looking for someone special to spend the winter with. When they're quiet again the cold weather will come. Then, in springtime, little ravens will be squawking to be fed. They don't even stop squawking when they're being fed, and it makes a funny sound.
In German, raven-mother (Rabenmutter) is a term for an uncaring mother, which does seem like a slander against ravens. They seem to be well parented on both sides. I would probably go crazy if I had a little raven yelling at me all day.

I have some grape tomatoes still growing, and a lot of them split after we got some rain, so I picked those ones and left them out by the fence for the birds. I don't feed them often, best they stay distrustful of humans for their own safety. But I thought there's no sense letting the tomatoes go to waste.

Last weekend I went for a walk and found a tree with bees living in it, and I saw a pelican.