neighbourhood watch

A small hawk is living along the lower cove road. I think it is a sharp-shinned hawk. Its feathered breast was luminous gold in the late afternoon sunlight. I was happy to see it, but the feeling wasn't mutual. It was determined to defend its territory from the likes of me.
I was an intruder who needed to be watched like a hawk.It flew in patterns above my head and uttered its screek! screek! so that I would go away. It's possible that its babies are still fledging, since it takes them ten weeks from birth to be able to fly. Later I saw it chase a crow or a raven away from somewhere in the forest. I'm not the only one this hawk has to watch out for.

this week's featured blog on infomonkey

Ted Sutcliffe at Infomonkey asked if Nova Scotia Island Journal would like to be the week's featured blog there. That was so sweet of him! I like Infomonkey because it keeps you up to date with all that's going on in Halifax. Not that I ever go to Halifax. But it's still fun to read about all the exciting things you could do if you did. The latest movies! Plays! Concerts!Restaurants! Et cetera!

And then, Infomonkey is a great way to find some other Nova Scotia bloggers you might enjoy adding to your reading list.

biking the island

A few intrepid adventurers have been exploring the island this summer. Brown Eyed Girl drops them off at the government wharf, then they walk to the light, or sometimes stop by our house to get their lunch and hitch a ride to the lighthouse in the McNutt's Island Express.

Today Sheldon and Laurel Scott and Ella McLeod and Brian Nickerson brought their mountain bikes with them on Brown Eyed Girl.

I think they had a lot of fun riding to the light and exploring the guns and the ghost barracks. After they stopped by here again they were going to ride down the lower road to the sheep pens at the head of the cove, and maybe go around to see the old cellar remains. You can cover lots of this big island when you're on a bike.