The Joyce Road Neighborhood

When the bottom 3 to 4 leaves on the garlic turn brown it's time to harvest. This year's crop was very nice and as an added bonus I ...

This morning I drove up to check on my newly seeded wildlife food plots and found a woodchuck grazing in a clover field. The woodchuck unfo...

I'm not sure if it was caused by this year's wet spring, but I haven't seen too many butterflies this Summer. As I prepared to m...

I was on my tractor heading to a food plot at our cabin property when I noticed a hen turkey in the driveway acting strange. The turkey ran ...

In the past couple of weeks I have noticed several foxes in the neighborhood and wondered where they were living. I now know, their den is a...

I was mowing down some goldenrod and brush with my tractor when I had a couple of fledgling birds attempt to fly out of the way of the mower...

This has been a very wet spring in the neighborhood and I have recorded almost 8.4 inches of rain within the last month. One recent storm du...

With the continuing wet, rainy weather it was too wet to work in my garden or mow the lawn so I decided to go on a spring deer hunt. Instead...

I was driving around our cabin property and saw a doe standing in some dry grass and then I saw a little fawn pop up. The doe ran for the wo...

I was doing some mowing around our fields with the tractor and finish mower when I noticed this blood sucking deer tick attached to my arm. ...

I was doing some work on our West Hill property last evening when I noticed a couple foxes in the area. Today I saw some foxes in a nearby f...

The new fawns are starting to appear in the neighborhood and I found this one at the edge of the road near our cabin. When I first found...

The neighborhood deer are starting to shed their warmer brown colored winter coats for the cooler reddish summer coats. This year's new ...

I was driving on the road to our cabin when this snapping turtle walked into the road and stopped. Of course this is a photo op and time to ...

We had a heavy downpour of rain today and I headed to our cabin pond to check on the water level. I found several geese, including 4 gosling...