Late Summer and Early Fall

This evening a friend of ours told us about a trip north to Fairbanks, and how he saw flocks and flocks of sandhill cranes wending their way southward, he estimated about 2000-3000 cranes.

Late this afternoon we were visited by a female hairy woodpecker. It rained most of the day, and the bird activity was minimal. We did see a red-backed vole on top of one of the feeder stations, and that is encouraging because a healthy vole population often results in owls in the early winter.