We all have to eat

That’s a pigeon it’s got for dinner, best I can tell. With all the raptors we have here, and all the easy targets, like pigeons, I’ve always expected to see an attack, but never have.

DTOTB

Dead Things on the Beach. A penguin. Near the dunes. I don’t have even the beginning of an explanation.

The sign

The sign at Tienda Inglesa (Street View pic from better days) had become very faded, so they brought in a huge crane and took it down.

That thing is big! And i can promise you this is a job I would not want to have anything to do with, ever. I hope I get to see them reinstalling it.

Puppeeeee!

And Syd.

Tracks

Frosty!

Thermometer’s in our back yard, with lemon and orange trees, where it never freezes, but was 2°C this morning…pretty close, and same as two days in June. First frost in a month. Strange thing is the sky is not perfectly clear, as it always seems to be on mornings with frost. Some light, wispy clouds.

A funny little car

The owner said it sold here with Chinese plates. Why she didn’t have Uruguayan plates, but a printed certificate with the license number in the windshield…eh, enough mysteries for one day.

Old seeds

Those white envelopes contained save seeds from before the plandemic, for a cancelled seed exchange. Last spring I got a germination rate of about zero. So into a big glass they went, down to the corner lot, and scattered there. Bird food, I guess.

Forgot to turn off the flash

But I like it 😉

Snake and toad

We ran across this on the trail yesterday

A small snake trying to eat a toad?

Apparently it concluded this wasn’t going to work.

Then it showed the underside of its tail, which allows a 100% identification: a young lystrophis_dorbignyi, or Falsa Crucera de Hocico Respingado. I’ll let you try to figure out what that means in English on your own….

Meanwhile, worth noting that we have never seen a toad before on a dog walk.