The main part of this plan was the pasture and irrigation work. However we have a couple of additional projects. One was accomplished last week. Personnel from the Solano RCD brought two owl boxes and installed them. How about that for service!

This one is on the south fence and the other is on the west. In this photo this box is being held in place with additional wood boards while the concrete in the hole hardens.

I walked out there today just after the support boards were removed. There are wood chips inside and this hole faces east. The extra panels on the top and the west side are to help with temperature control in the summer. Part of me wants to write an Owlish Address of some kind on the box.

This is the view from the road when I walked to the owl box. It is far too wet to walk through the pasture or Across the Road. So I used this as a reason to get Ginny out for a short walk.

It rained a lot last night and today and I was interested to see the pasture from different views. This is the east side looking south. The photo above this one is the east side looking northwest.

This is the same side of the pasture, but from the opposite end. There is water in the deep ruts made by the trucks when they installed those moisture sensors described in the previous post, but, other than the ruts, the lower end of the field doesn’t have the standing water that there is in the upper end. Interesting.

This is the southwest corner of the property. The standing water is in the ruts where the truck maneuvered. The soil moisture sensor is on that pole at the right. You can just see the other owl box along the fence line near one of the trees.

I walked around the west property line to the northwest corner where the concrete box is. There is standing water in the area where the trucks drove but not in the rest of the field. I think that the last work to be done is to fill in with all that extra dirt around the box. I assume that they will cover this open box, but I’m not sure. If they don’t we’ll put a wire cover on it.