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Our backyard fawns are growing up.
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It’s such fun to see the young spotted babies make their way into adulthood.
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We get used to seeing them.
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They get used to seeing us.
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Until the neighbor’s dog starts barking and they all flee to the safety of the woods.
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I forgot to post these last week but…
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It finally happened.
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Can you see?
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Our resident buck lost an antler.
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One side only.
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But it’s a start…
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😊
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A few more of our oh so limber and persistent gray squirrels.
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The lantern feeder on the end is the largest and holds the most seed…
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So naturally they try to take advantage.
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Which requires contortionist moves.
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And prehensile feet.
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The flat feeders are so much easier to access.
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Thank you Jerry.
I’m pretty pleased with it as well.
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I can’t remember who it was, but someone requested photos of our newly installed wall sconces when lit.
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Seeing that it’s rarely going to happen due to the stupidly placed switch, this will be a one off.
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I started with 40 watts which was way too bright, then dropped down to decorative 25 watt bulbs …
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Which honestly, I still think is too bright.
Oh, well.
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The sunrise light is always prettier.
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And much more colorful.
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☀️❤️☀️
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We like our cute little black and white visitors…
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They’re great for the garden, keeping bug and rodent populations down.
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But occasionally they rumble.
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And when the tail goes up?
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The air is not exactly perfumed.
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Our snow has melted but I had these kicking around the photo files and thought I’d share.
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Squirrelly sentries.
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I know there are people who dislike them, but we welcome our harmless grays.
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They’re acrobatic and quite entertaining.
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Mornings have been beautiful of late.
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With lovely sunrises …
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And colorful skies.
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Our gray squirrels are quite acrobatic and during a recent snow storm… when I brought in all the bird feeders except the one from which they have trouble stealing… this little guy went above and beyond for a snack.
I’m guessing he has six pack abs under that fur.
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He fell quite a few times, but finally found a stable perch.
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In other wildlife news, our first chuck of the season arrived.
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In the middle of the storm with nothing to nibble but fallen seed.
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Poor chuck.
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I doubt that was the meal he dreamt about all winter.
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Our weirdo resident buck never lost his antlers this winter.
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And in all the decades we’ve been hosting backyard deer, that’s never happened.
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Makes me wonder why…
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And hope nothing is wrong.
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It looks rather painful.
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They stomp at us all the time.
I’ve spoken deer for years…
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Because it was such a rare occurrence…
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And he was just too beautiful.
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❤️
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He knew we were there, watching and taking pictures.
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But didn’t seem to mind.
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Of course we weren’t the only ones looking.
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And after a wonderful ten minutes or so…
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He swooped for a mouse…
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But came up empty handed.
Or should that be empty taloned…?
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Looking out the kitchen window while doing dishes last week… I saw an owl.
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We hardly ever spot them so I was tickled to get a photograph, even if it was only of his back.
Then… about 10 minutes later?
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There he was!
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A beautiful barred owl perched on our back deck railing.
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Sitting pretty and letting me snap some much better pics.
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He didn’t even mind the deer showing up for dinner.
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My husband and I were like little kids at the zoo and clicked photos like mad.
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He was so beautiful!
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❤️🩷❤️
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