Tag: Wildlife

Sunday (01-March-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

Blue Jay eating sunflower seeds at the bird feeder. Unlike the cardinals and finches, the Blue Jays need to work harder to open the sunflower seeds.




Individual images in the above slideshows can be accessed in my PhotoShelter gallery here.

Daily Electric Energy Used (73.7 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (58.8 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Sunny with some clouds. A deficit of 14.9 kWh.

Weekly Electric Energy Used (492 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (250 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. A deficit of 242 kWh. It was relatively cold at the end of the week requiring the Geothermal HVAC system to run most of the time.

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Wednesday (26-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

Day and nighttime deer near the house. At night they are outside the electric fence. During the day inside the electric fence.

Daily Electric Energy Used (63.1 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (9.9 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Lots of sun, still cold outside. A deficit of 17.1 kWh.


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Saturday (22-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

Daytime deer near the house.

Daily Electric Energy Used (70.8 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (53.7 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Lots of sun, still cold outside. A deficit of 17.1 kWh.


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Tuesday (18-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Nighttime Winter Nature in New Jersey.

Opossum showed up on the patio.

Daily Electric Energy Used (66.8 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (19.2 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Mostly cloudy all day. A deficit of 47.6 kWh.


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Saturday (15-February-2020) — New Jersey

Backyard Wintertime Nature in New Jersey.

Winter birds (Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse, and Mourning Dove) at and around the feeder on a cold morning. They all left when a couple of Turkey Vultures landed in a nearby tree to warm in the morning sun.




Daily Electric Energy Used (96.1 kWh) from Sense Home Energy Monitor and Daily Solar Electric Energy Produced (51.0 kWh) from SolSystems and Locus Energy. Sunny most of the day. Another high for the most solar energy produced this winter. Still not enough to completely power everything in the house especially since was really cold out and the Geothermal HVAC system was running almost continuously. A deficit of 45.1 kWh.

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