Carol's Pond

  February 22, 2025 Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond It has been a cold miserable month here at Carol’s Pond. Below 80 is cold. But despite the cold I have had several visitors. One of the local Roadrunners has visited twice. Even coming up and looking in the sunroom door. They are a pretty bird. Mostly gray and white to blend in with the brush where they hunt. The other visitors were also from the avian world. I am not sure if they were crows or ravens. Either one is welcome. On a side note, the Boise Idaho Zoo had a raven that was a character. It would come to the front of the cage, put its wing down like it was injured, ruffle up its feathers trying to look sick and it would then beg for peanuts. I would toss it a peanut and it would gulp it down, shell and all and keep begging. I would toss another one in and it would pick it up, pull up its wing, smooth out the feathers and run to the back of the cage. There it would p...