YardCrap BIRDS

Squirrels

I do like and enjoy my squirrels.  I have been feeding them for decades.  My job is to give them guidance as to where to nibble.  Their job seems to be to tell me -

In Winter I have a billion birds, but in Summer only a million.
To take up the entertainment slack, a young squirrel has decided I am no threat and comes to the CatBird house when I do as I bring peanuts.  He has a buddy that also comes, but is more wary.
He is cute:


My cat Prancy is in her chair and watches.  Crazy is aggressive when out here, and the squirrel wonders WTF?  Crazy is about 15 pounds and prancy is 7 pounds, but she is the deadly one and boss of the house.  As long as she just watches, all are happy.

Here is my Turtle Pond today as Summer approaches:

My Bride gave me this metal screen for my Frog Pond on my birthday - I like it!

Now the tiny squirrel is drinking water from the ant moat at a Humming Bird feeder even though I have a lot of water feeders out here.

Life in South Carolina is the best.

Black-and-white Warbler

I was lying in bed and out the window saw a Black and White Warbler.  I don't see them often, so watching him jump around was a treat.  I did snap a poor photo through the window and sreeen.  I'll get better ones over the Summer.

My cats love that window.  Here is the photo before the crop:

Cool. crisp 70 degree day on the lake. Three birds were causing comotion.  Maybe an Eagle?  Way too far off to tell, my Bride said they were Buzzards but not me.  I got a couple photos and now that I have blown them up, see two were Red-tailed Hawks and one was an Osprey.  I don't think I have seen these two types together before.  My life is very good.

I have a decent but not expensive Olympus camera I bought used. I have a good tele lens. It is amazing they could auto focus that far away on a bird in flight, and this was from a moving boat.