The Joyce Road Neighborhood

A few years ago we remodeled our bathroom and then repurposed the old cast iron bathtub as a watering trough for wildlife at our West Hil...

Grandson Reed has a fascination with penguins... So his dad arranged a penguin encounter for him at The Wild Animal Park in Chitta...

Checking the game cameras at our West Hill property this weekend and got this nice photo of a Bobcat.

Another turtle found in the road. This time it was an Eastern Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta picta) in the road to our cabin, not far f...

While traveling between our barn and cabin I found this snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) in the middle of the township road. Snappin...

It's still a few months until the start of deer season but a good time to check out the local bucks.

I'm starting to see a lot of this year's young animals on my evening wildlife rides. While most of the adult wildlife are nocturn...

Black bear sightings are becoming more frequent in our neighborhood. This morning, while I was talking to one of the neighbors, this blac...

I found this yearling buck along the road to our cabin during my evening wildlife drive. Being a yearling, last year's fawn, this is ...

I enjoy taking a tour of our property as the local wildlife start to become active in the evening. Most of the time it's deer and ra...

Our neighbors have been rasing Guinea fowl for the past few years and now for the past couple of weeks a couple of Guinea hens have been...

Summer is a busy time of the year and one of the tasks is mowing fields with a brush-hog. This time I had a new friend follow me around ...

After seeing a bear with cubs earlier this week I checked my game cameras and found this bear checking out the "Bone Yard" for a m...

It was a day for young animals. I was brush hogging some overgrown fields this morning when I uncovered a nest of 4 young bunny rabbits. No ...

A few of the honey bees from the swarm are still in the area and grandson Reed got a chance to do some bee wrangling. The bees were feeding ...