Some quick stats about the place:

1.2 acres, 3 miles from the edge of town, only 15 minutes from most places in two towns. But still considered "country".
Squilchuck Creek cuts through the yard.
House is 2800 square feet, with 5 bedrooms, two bath, two living rooms, and two kitchens, a daylight basement and a cellar.
200 foot long zipline from our tree house in the maple, running across the creek.
Garage/Barn and corral.

Plants on the property when we moved in (either wild or planted by previous owners):


2 Maples
English Walnut
Lilac hedge
Weeping Cherry
Wild Cherry
Pussywillows
Cottonwoods
Willows
Elders
Chokecherries
Weeping Willows
Alders
Red twig Dogwoods
Mock oranges
Wild Roses
Service Berries
Blackberries
Hawthorn
Peonies
Roses

Birds and animals we've seen on our property (off the top of my head, I may add some more in later posts):


Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagle
Mallards
Evening Grosbeak
Pine Grosbeak
White Crowned Sparrow
Hawks
Owls
Kingfisher
Quail
Ring-necked Pheasant
Rufus Sided Towhee
Northern Flicker
Downey Woodpecker
Housefinch
Goldfinch
Chickadee
Stellar Jay
Hummingbirds
Starlings
Mourning Dove
Eastern Kingbird
Swallows
Magpie
Robin
Varied Thrush
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Western Tanager
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Brewer's Blackbird
Bullock's Oriole

Squirrel
Rattlesnake
Bull snake
Garter snake
Deer
Coyote
Raccoon
Pocket voles
Moles
Mice
Lizards


Numerous butterflies/moths...mostly Tiger Swallowtails and Cabbage Whites and Blue Sulphers.
A couple mosquitoes here and there, not many Lady lacewings...they're nasty, have the worst bite
Bees
Praying Mantis
Box Elder bugs
Ladybugs