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Critters

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The temperatures are dropping in Maine and our backyard visitors are feeling it.

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They’re also probably feeling like they’re being watched…

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Because they are.

Quite regularly.

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I saw this and thought, damn. Our raccoons are total slackers.

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Seriously, all ours do is eat and poo… and occasionally knock over the bird bath.

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We don’t have kids, so I’d better get to work on our trash pandas.

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Sunrise…

With cat.

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Squirrel, defying gravity.

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Yes, you.

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Our one little opossum, who only shows up at night.

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What trees are for.

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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is a fair weather cat. He doesn’t like heat, humidity, wind, rain, cold, fog or snow. Summer is too hot for backyard walkies, winter is too cold.

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But fall? When the leaves are turning and the air is crisp and cool?

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He’s totally down with that.

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And gets so frisky he thinks he can climb trees.

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Which he really can’t. Most of the time he just sits in them looking puzzled.

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Oh, he tries.

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But more often than not, he gets stuck.

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And requires careful plucking from between the branches.

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He’s awfully cute when he does it though.

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Squirrel gymnastics.

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It’s been squirrel central at Casa River lately.

Our beef feeder pole is out in the open, and with our resident hawk patrolling the skies we usually only have a single squirrel show up to nosh.

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Seven is a record.

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But after something scared the others away one brave little guy took advantage.

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I know people hate squirrels because they eat the bird seed, but we’re equal opportunity feeders here and all critters are welcome.

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I enjoy watching their gymnastic performances.

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Rats with bushy tails?

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Maybe.

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But they’re still sweeties.

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Deer me.

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We have a few nice bucks visiting this fall.

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Sometimes with a companion skunk.

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As long as stinky doesn’t get too close the buck doesn’t seem to mind.

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It’s hunting season so I’m always worried about these guys, even though our property and our neighbors is posted.

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A deer’s home range is usually one square mile and while our neighbor’s properties on both sides are 4 times bigger than ours… that still leaves us about 600 acres short of a safe from bullets zone.

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Trash pandas and friends.

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The skunks beat the fox.

Now the raccoons are beating the skunks.

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It’s first come first serve at River’s critter buffet.

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Though the deer are lucky… as no one else wants their grain.

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Three deer and three raccoons.

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All are welcome.

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But I really enjoy watching these little devils tussle and push each other out of the way for the best spots.

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Midnight… birds?

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Our night time visitors include deer, fox, opossums, skunks and raccoons. I put out a bowl of water and critter specific food but they all nibble the bird seed that spills on the ground.

All of them except this fellow.

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Who prefers his straight from the source.

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You wouldn’t think his chunky little butt could shimmy up that pole, but he climbs it with ease.

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https://youtu.be/FL8DFR3lok4?feature=shared

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Of course coming down isn’t quite as smooth.

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Pardon the photo quality, I was taking pics through the window and the kitchen light was throwing reflections.

And why isn’t WP letting me embed videos anymore? That’s annoying.

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Last chuck standing and a feline doppelgänger.

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We’re down to one single woodchuck now.

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Momma and the other 3 siblings have departed the pattern…

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But this little guy knows a good thing when he sees (and eats) it.

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Saw this the other day and had to do a double take.

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And while it’s absolutely true, I had to wonder if it also looks like anyone we know….?

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