Sharing The Land I

This is a start of a list which can never be complete of the beings we share these acres of land with. It is intended to be a foundation for meditation on:

Exchanging of self with others (each of these beings has an experience of living here with suffering and joy concurrent with our own)
Impermanence (the list changes continually with birth and death on the farm)
Non Possession (all of the beings have a desire for life here)
Attachment (we care deeply for some and not for others in an arbitrary way)
Our current ignorance (the exercise of enumerating and counting reveals how little we know - even the full extent of the kinds of beings is unknown let alone the number)
Responsibility (the health of the farm is entrusted to us as caretakers)
Beauty (all of the beings reflect in a different way the beauty of creation)

How many are there? How are they known? Which do we love and which to we revile? Who is named and who goes unnamed? Who is counted and who is uncounted?

1 Dog: Rosie
2 House Cats: Scout and Maude
A Feral cat in the back 40

35 Bovines:
Hippie
Bodo
Lisa
Heaven
Athena
Gracie
Beatrice
Loki
Heidi
Mr. Man
Liam
Angel
Fion
Nakey Man
Blodeuwedd
Rachel
Arwen
Nora
Samantha
Ellie
Llew LLaw
Wheezer
Alf
Newla
Sam
Enya
Hans
Hals
Basil
Brigita
Gretl
Elisa
Leo
Pebbles
Noisy

2 Pigs
7 Guineas
Aged Oaks
Aged White Pines
Aged Apple Trees
A Plum Tree
Ash Trees
Prickly Ash
Mutli Flora Rose
Wildflowers
Pigweed
Nightshade
Thistles
Burdocks
Grass!
10 Pigeons
A flock of Turkeys
A Pileated Woodpecker
7 Red Headed Woodpeckers
Visiting Hawks and Bald Eagles
A Barred Owl
A Whippoorwill
A Virgina Rail
3 Pair Brown Thrashers
No Hermit Thrush this year
Quail - where are they?
Dozens of swallows
A dozen pheasants
Deer
An itinerant Bear
Rabbits
Possums
Raccoons
Skunks
Squirrels
Flying squirrels
Brown Bats
Big Brown Bats
Scores of Bobolinks
Dozens of Meadowlarks
Crows
Jays
Several Bluebirds
A flock of Cedar Waxwings
Chickadees
Nuthatches
Swallows
Hundreds of finches and sparrows
Moles
Tree Frogs
Toads
Black Snakes
Garter Snakes
Thousands of mice and voles
Earthworms
Tapeworms
Box Elder Bugs
Crickets
Earwigs
Sowbugs
Wolf Spiders
Wooly Worms
Monarchs
Moths
Flies!
Wood ticks
Deer ticks
Asian Beetles