We put the camera out last night. It was the first time in a week because it wasn’t raining. It was extremely windy which means that at least 700 of the 1022 pictures it took were just the movement of the feeders in the wind. And some of them probably were pictures of flying squirrels hiding behind the feeder.
So I deleted a lot of pictures and put the camera out tonight, but it’s going to rain, so I’m not expecting much. Supposed in another week or so, the weather might improve. We live in hope.
I got some fun pictures of raccoons sharing the feeder with flying squirrels. It’s the first time I’ve seen that. Usually it’s one or the other.
A hungry raccoon and a flying squirrel
Raccoon in a tree waiting to pounce on the seeds
Squirrel on the wing and raccoon on the feeder
Reaching inside the feeder for goodies
Flying Squirrel and his companion Raccoon
These are my fun photos of the day. There are a lot more pictures. Hopefully, I’ll get to them tomorrow. And probably the next day and a few more days after that. Even after deleting more than 600 pictures, there are still more than 600 remaining.
Categories: Animals, black & white photography, Flying squirrels, Marilyn Armstrong, Photography
It was a busy night…..
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I’m glad woodchucks can’t climb too!
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They seem to be doing alright on the ground there….
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Love the idea of all the life going on around us that we don’t know about. I have a fondness for raccoons as I had one as a pet when I was in grade school..It was an orphan and my mother made the mistake of letting my dad and I go out to see it without going along. He was her baby for 4 years.
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They are very smart and fun pets, but they can be destructive. And fat. But even though they are illegal in this state, I wouldn’t say no 🙂
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My dad couldn’t resisit abandoned small animals. The raccoon’s mom had been killed by dogs. He brough home magpies, bunnies, kittens, and once a tiny mole. Puppies. My mother never knew what he’d show up with and we loved them all.
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They put on more fur in the winter and so look huge. And yes, gain fat for hibernating. He would go down to the basement in the winter and climb up one of the support posts and find a wooden ledge way up by the ceiling.. and sleep most of the winter. Then slim down in the summer.
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Well this one is well-padded for sure! I was the kid who always dragged up a kitten or a puppy or anything else I found.
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You should have had my dad for a dad. He never shopped for birthdays or Xmas but he certainly provided some special creatures to our lives.
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We had a box tortoise, but my mother took it into the woods and released it. She couldn’t stand seeing it caged. We had actually rescued it from out dog who was trying (with very limited success) to eat it. After he healed, mom set him free. She hated caged anything. And she adored cats.
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