Swans are back/gone/back at the Boxley Millpond!

Happy, Happy. After 40 some years, the Trumpeter swans are returning to Arkansas.

These swans are gone. However, Arkansas Game and Fish and Buffalo National River biologists will be stocking some young ones this week. We'll see how that goes.

No work on the Tiny Cabin. Too dang cold, dark and windy.

They're back. Stocked this time by Buffalo National River, Arkansas Game and Fish and Iowa Dept. Natural Resources.

Young of the year road-killed fawn

Young of the year road kill fawn, originally uploaded by bouteloua.

Deer season doesn't open for several more weeks. However, vehicular smashing of deer happens all the time. We didn't see the crash, but this one was fresh - its mother was still hanging around waiting for the dead fawn to recover.

It was not going to recover - the good doctor determined that it had multiple broken bones and an exploded liver. And was already dead.

So he tossed the fawn in the bathtub he was hauling in the back of his pickup. Fortunately he had a state wildlife biologist along if an explanation to game wardens was called for.

He recovered what meat there was.