Even More Wildlife in Our Yard

Since moving to Missouri back in March we continue to be amazed at how much wildlife there is here.  Moving from Western Washington this was a huge supprise to us.  We’ve blogged about it at our old blog location at http://thexblog.spaces.live.com when we showed you pictures of the bird’s nest we had very close to the ground in our backyard.  We also have Cardinals, Bluejays and rabbits in our yard, plus deer very nearby.  As a matter of fact rarely a day goes by when we don’t drive by deer very close to us and our home.  Two months ago a fawn deer “hung out” in my in-laws backyard up the street from us for many hours before being scared off by another animal.  This has all been a huge blessing to us and to our boys.

Our latest yard discovery was found by our friend Joel who is down from Seattle to paint our home.  He found this Missouri Box Turtle near one of the gutter down spouts in our front yard.  Here is some video of our little shelled friend.