We are seeing lots of hawks here at Plimoth Plantation.  I  will show you some pictures of  hawks I took here at Plimoth Plantation .  We  have seen a lot hawks around especially since we have closed to the public this winter. 

One of the reasons for seeing  more Hawks is its winter and the tree’s are bare no leafs.   It is also so quite around here too the mice and other rodants are moving around our pathways and sites with out any people to scare them away.   Its easy for the hawks to see them run around on the white snow.

The other day I was talking to some of the CID Education staff  in the visitor center on the second floor of the building.  The second floor over looks the Wampanoag Home-site.   I just happen to look out the window and what did I see a white object in a tree in the Wampanoag home-site what was it?  it was the white chest of a Red Tailed hawk, I think  it was a big Male.  He was a foot or more tall.

When I looked closer out the window what did I see it  was another Red tail Hawk closer then the other hawk.  They were about 20 feet away from each other on the tops of evergreen tree’s.  They were Watching each other.   The second hawk was smaller and Is back was facing us and you could see that bright red tail very well. 

I thought they might be a matting pair hunting together and maybe they were.   I saw the big hawk fly down to the ground out of my view,  just then the smaller hawk followed after the big hawk maybe they had a meal together.  I really wish I could see them but the trees hide them.  If I had my camera I might of got a picture of them In the trees.

On 1/15/2010 I was going to meet one of the CID Artisons (Mike.F.) in their parking lot.   When I pulled in to the lot in my truck  Mike.F. and Brian.B. told me about a hawk that  flew down a few minutes ago and picked off a squirrel off some logs and had it back behind the logs and go take a look.  I quietly went around the logs and their he was still trying to kill his meal he look at me and pined his meal to the ground.  

I was told by Brian.B. the squirrel was giving the hawk a good fight when he saw it but when I got their hawk had the squirrel pined down.   It was so awesome!  I got some picture but I think they might be a little much to show you,  just in case young one are reading this.   Here are some pictures I can show you  hope you like them.

Heres a hawk on the roof of a Pilgrim house in the Village.

Here’s another hawk in a tree by one of our buildings .  This is a great photo look you can see his claw , he let me walk right under him to get this picture.  What a great Bird after I took this picture he flew away right over my head so cool.

Well hope you like the pictures of the hawks, If I get to take more photos of hawk this winter  I will post them on the blog.

See Ya!

Tim

In this blog,  I wanted to show you our collection’s room.  I will also show you some more picture’s of  bowl’s and spoon’s that I did not put in my last blog.  I would also would like to show you our Collection Manager.   I hope you will enjoy this blog.

Here’s our Collection’s Manager Kerri Helme,  she is Mashpee Wampanoag.   Kerri  has worked at Plimoth Plantation’s Wampanoag Homesite for more than 4 year’s now and has  been our collection’s Manager for more than a year .  In this picture she is working on a clay pot.   She is a great potter and has quickly becoming very well known for her pottery and her Pottery is very desirable.

Here’s a picture of the collection’s room, you can see most of our artifact’s are stored in the row’s of white bin’s you can see on the right side of this picture.  In the back of the room you can see a cedar wood door behind the door we have some of our feather work,  like hair piece’s.   We keep them in  here because the cedar will keep out bug’s that like to eat feathers this is very important.

Here is the left side of the room,  you can see bullrush mat’s just washed and rolled up and stored in those very deep shelves.   You can also see the bows hanging from the roof of the room.  Lets have some fun now.  What do you also see in this picture and were  is it in this picture?  send me a comment at the end of this blog and tell me what you see.

Here’s another wooden bowl.  This one is made out of  basswood this bowl is more than 15 years old.  Hey do you see the Effigy (Figure or image) on the end of the bowl?  What is it?   Take a guess at the end of the blog leave me a comment, lets see if your right.

Here’s the other end of the same bowl made out of basswood.  This end  has an effigy of a face carved into it .

This bowl is made out of maple burl and has an effigy of a fox face on it.  This bowl has something done to it,  can you guess what  that is?   please leave a comment at the end of the blog with your guess.

This wooden spoon has an effigy of a fish on the handle.  I think this spoon is made out of oak wood.

These spoon’s are not wood.  These’s spoon’s are made out of  brass and copper.   One of these spoon’s has a whale’s tale as an effigy.

Well everyone I hope you can see what I am trying to do,  get you all to comment on the blog .  I really do like writing the blog’s but I also like answering your comment’s so please take some time and leave me a comment.

Thank You!

Tim

I hope your Holiday’s are going well and you have a great new year. I want to thank you all for reading and watching my blog’s over this past year.  This year has been great for the blog,  thousands of visitor’s have come to the blog and lots of them have added the blog to their feeds and that’s great!  I am looking forward to this new year.

 I  just wanted to give you a look at some of our collection’s here at Wampanoag Homesite.  All of our collection’s are reproduction’s and not originals.  I will in this blog show you some bowl’s and spoon’s but we have so much more in our collection’s and I will show you them soon.  We make these bowl’s and spoon’s out of  Burl’s (these are those knot’s you see on trees) .   We make the bowl’s and spoon’s  here at Plimoth Plantation most time’s right in front of the public.   We burn them out with hot coal’s from the fire’s.  

Here’s a bowl made out of a cherry burl it has a effigy of a bear on it.  This bowl is more than 15 year’s old .  This is a serving bowl.

Here is another serving bowl made out of cherry burl.  This has an effigy of a face on it.

This bowl is made out of oak wood.   I would like you guy’s to take a  guess what this bowl has for an effigy on it,  it’s a water animal that’s all I am telling you.   So Please  leave a comment with your guess at the end of this blog.

This is a spoon made out of moose antler and the handle was carved to look like a effigy of a duck head.

This spoon was also made out of moose antler and has a effigy of a turtle on the end of it.

This spoon was made out of maple wood and has an effigy of a hawk on the end handle.

Well everyone these is just a few artifact’s we use in the  Wampanoag Homesite.  I will in upcoming blog’s show you more of our artifact’s in our collection’s.

I hope you like this blog let me know,  look at the end of the blog you will see a comment area please let me know what you think.

Thanks

Tim

 It’ s Timothy Turner the Manager of the Wampanoag Homesite again.  I wanted to show you picture’s of  the Wampanaog  Homesite with snow on it.   We did not get a snow storm, we got a blizzard.  We got more than 15 inches here in plymouth.  Here’s some picture’s to give you an idea how much snow we got enjoy! 

Neewetu  (two fire house) in the snow after the blizzard 12/19/09 take a look at the new house.  It look’s good with snow on it!

It look’s awesome with snow on it!

Here’s the Nushwetu, snow all over it.  I cant even see the top of the front of the house.

The canoe ’s on the homesite full of snow, what do you think?

The new house with snow on it, it looks great with snow in it!

This is the side of the nushwetu can you see the way the snow was coming?

This a frame of a house in our game area in the back of the homesite.

Well I hope all of you liked all of the pictures of the homesite with snow on it, leave me a message let me know what you think of this blog, did you like it? what did you like or dislike plese let me know.  I  need your feed back ok see ya!

Tim

I know I showed  you what the guy’s are doing so far this winter, now I wanted to show you what the women are doing this winter.  They are working on the edge’s of the cattail mat’s for our cattail mat covered summer house. We Have to make 14 new mat’s every winter for this house.   If it was not for the women jumping right in and working hard on the edge’s of these cattail mat’s the guy’s would not of got as much done on the House’s in the homesite,  so thank you girls your doing a great job.  It is so important that we work as a team and the women have done that so far this winter.   I want to show some picture now take a look enjoy.

Here’s a mat edge,  you can see how long they are.  We do them on these table’s to help them from breaking the reeds off keeping them nice and long.

Here’s the edge of a cattail mat, you can see this mat edge look’s great!

This is a edge of the mat rolled up,  we roll them so we have room on the table to keep weaving the mat’s edge,  this mat will be 13 foot long.  This is the longest mat we make.

This is those cattail mat’s going on the house, you can see what the look like when they are done.

This is what the house looks like when we are all done putting all 28 mats on.  I hope you like this blog I will have to show you how we sew the mat’s but maybe I will video tape that we will see.  Thanks everyone please leave me a comment I want to here from you ok.

It’s Timothy Turner the Manager of the Wampanoag Homesite again.  I just wanted to show you all what we have been up to since we closed about two week now.  I will show you in before and after photos of the Neeswetu here go’s.

This is the front of the Neeswetu at the end of the year, we just did not have the time to get the roof done in season so we will have to finish it this winter.   I think you can see large gaps where air and water could get in and just dose not look finished.

Here’s the guys working on the almost finished front of the Neeswetu.  What different in this picture? those gap’s are all sealed up, we did this with bark shingles we made.   The guys now are working on the front porch of the house as you can see in the picture here.  The house is now looking good and all of the cracks are sealed up, we did this with other peaces of bark shoved under the bark to seal the crack up and is now air and water tight.  Nice job Phillip, James, Brain and Darius it’s looking great.  This week coming the  guys are going to work on the beds making the frames and putting down the flat boards we chopped out of logs.  This will finally finish the house off,  it has been a long project and nice to see it come to the end.  I invite you all to come see the house next year when we open.  I will post some more pictures of the house at the end of the blog .

Here’s Brian in the back of the house fixing the gaps in the back of the house.

Here’s me, I was working on the front of the house, but you can also see how big the gap was in the back of the house.

This is the Back of the Neeswetu all sealed up no more big gaps in the back.

Front of the Neeeswetu almost done, look at the smoke come out the house.  This is the last Photo hope you like this blog.  I hope to show you more photos soon.