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I have gotten e-mails from several people telling me how they enjoy my backyard photos. Thanks, as I am always afraid photos of such a limited area will start to get repetitive and boring.
Today (4-24-2020) I saw two Doug squirrels running on the back fence south toward the park. My camera was not handy and there would have been no time to grab a shot anyway as they are really fast little devils, much faster than the eastern grays.
Wednesday afternoon (4-29-2020) two Douglas' squirrels cruised north along the squirrel freeway from the vicinity of Pine Ridge Park.
Squirrel #1 (Michael?)
Squirrel #2 (Kirk?)
About a minute later one squirrel pursued the other back south towards the park. They are extremely fast little critters and I was not quick enough to get photos of the high speed chase.
Saturday (5-2-2020) was just another typical rainy spring day up here in the Puget Sound Region of western Washington. It really doesn't matter as most of us are still under Covid-19 lockdown anyway and I had a ton of photos to edit from the day before.
Earlier in the day I saw a raccoon on my back deck right outside the sliding door. I first thought it was Daphne seeking shelter from the rain, as she is a coon-tailed cat. No, it was a real raccoon that crawled under the tarp covering my BBQ unit before I got a good photo. I could not let out Scriber or go out there myself (not that I would want to stand in the cold rain) as long as I believed he was still camped out there.
Here is a grab shot I managed to snap through the glass and screen doors just as it sneaked under the BBQ-er.
I checked later in the afternoon and found raccoon gone. I always get nervous when I see an otherwise nocturnal animal out and about during the day. Rabies comes to mind.
Cinco de Mayo from the back deck. No Corona for me.
You can learn an animal's habits and behavior by watching it continually over several days. I knew what this Douglas's squirrel was going to do when it got up on the roof of my shed and I set up accordingly.
The two Doug squirrels continue to chase each other. If this is territorial behavior, I can continue calling them Michael and Kirk. I will have to change the name of one if it is courtship.
The two would bark at each other. I could hear a third one barking in the distance from the direction of the park.
BILL Anderson -- I am loving your photographs and narrative of the 'Squirrel Tales'.
My Dad and I used to sit in the courthouse square with giant oak trees while my Mom shopped. We could buy a small bag of peanuts and entertain ourselves for hours watching the antics of the little critters!
BILL Anderson -- I am loving your photographs and narrative of the 'Squirrel Tales'.
My Dad and I used to sit in the courthouse square with giant oak trees while my Mom shopped. We could buy a small bag of peanuts and entertain ourselves for hours watching the antics of the little critters!
I am considering buying a shooting blind later this year. I'll use it to photograph backyard birds from my back deck so that my equipment and I don't have to sit out in the cold, rain, and wind. It may also help me photograph some of the more skittish birds, such as flickers and other...
My wife and son usually see rabbits in our front yard during their nightly walks. Sunday evening (5-10-2020) one popped out from under one of our shrubs and ran into our neighbor's front yard.
I have been told this is an eastern cottontail, a descendant of rabbits introduced to our area by hunters about a hundred years ago.
Yep, it’s an invasive species, not only that, but they breed like rabbits!
Until recently, didn’t realize that. One the east coast they are everywhere and when you say “rabbits” you typically mean these. I just figured they were all over the nation. But they stop east of the Rockies for the most part. However, they’re quite common in much of the PNW now too,
We have had a cottontail boom in Edmonds that started about four years ago. Before that I would only see them in a few parks. Then they started showing up at the marsh and neighborhoods such as ours.
Remember our neighbor's cat Daphne? The neighbor said Daphne recently caught some baby rabbits in their backyard. There are other predators in town such as coyotes, barred owls, and eagles that may hunt them as well.
Wednesday morning (5-12-2020) there was a three way battle in the Douglas fir nearest my back deck. I did not get shots of the actual combat, but I did get shots of two of the three participants.
Eastern gray squirrel. Taken while it was on the back fence. I wanted to get my neighbor's rhodies in the photo.
Douglas's squirrel.
Missing were shots of a crow that was buzzing both squirrels in the tree. There must be a crow's nest somewhere in the neighborhood as they have really been going after squirrels in my backyard.
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