Forgotten shots

These pictures are from a few days ago. This Azalea isn't mine, but surely is gorgeous. Mine got damaged over the winter, and we'll have to wait and see how it fares. Our Red Maple is coming along nicely. The leaves look like leather.

This is a patch of Oregano after the frost last Monday.

Lots of early cut hay this year

One day we spotted this Turkey Vulture guarding his road kill. They will challenge you and I have had them fly at us.

As we got closer, he did fly up to a tree

Then of course we have the nightly visitors at the feeders. This Raccoon was pulling down this feeder at 5AM. I leaned out the window and told him to go home!

An unwanted visitor. At least they don't climb up on the feeder trays.

Here are both critters. They keep their distance too. LOL

Another day trip

We have had a beautiful couple of days, and we have taken advantage of them. Wednesday morning I got some pictures of the Eagle just down the road from us sitting not too far from the creek. I even got out of the van and he didn't fly away. He remained there for at least 5 minutes. I later spotted him up the creek when the dog and I went on our morning walk. I'm just hoping the mate is sitting on eggs or tending to some young.

Later in the morning on a drive I spotted this Lesser Yellowlegs, or at least this is what I think it is. It didn't move from this spot, but kept bobbing up and down. My Sibley's book says it will do this when alarmed. If anybody thinks it might be something different, I'd love to know.

Then on the way home, I see this big nest high up in an old tree about 50 yards from the creek and about 2 miles from our house. I have not seen this before, but I haven't trained my eyes to look skyward till now. I think there is a bird in this nest, but I'm not sure if it's an adult, chick, or what it is even. I will be keeping an eye on it.

I believe this is an Angle-winged Butterfly, but I don't know which one. Thanks so much to EG at http://eastgwillimburywow.blogspot.com/ for ID'ing this butterfly as the Eastern Comma. Read her comment to learn all about it. Thanks EG!

These Daffodils grow in back of the barn. I need to pick some and put them on my desk.

On another drive out to dinner Thursday evening, we came upon a farmers field with a small stream running through it. It also had flooded the field somewhat so that it made a small pond. This Great Blue Heron was fishing and I thought probably it would fly away if I stopped, but it did stand still for a couple of pictures. I hardly ever get any shots of Herons.

Then it only flew a few feet and landed again.

In this same flooded field are 2 Canada Geese nests. One was unoccupied, but the other one had someone home, and "she" wasn't too happy that we stopped to take pictures.

This goose was hunkered down trying to hide.

It's supposed to be really warm today and we have outside work to do. We have a birdhouse to put up that my sister made us for Christmas. You all have a wonderful day, and get outside and enjoy!

Camera Critters

I spotted this little Muskrat on our creek trail early this morning. He was munching on something and I was able to get quite close, but when he finally saw me he took off swimming under the ice.
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For Camera Critters this week, I've chosen Maggie. She will be 16 years old this summer. This was taken in 2005, and she likes to lay on the side of the flower bed and soak up the sun.
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We spent Christmas day with my sister. She has 3 cats. This first one the calico, and was a feral cat. A youngster she began hanging around Judy's home last summer. Judy noticed how thin she was and began feeding her. "Callie" as she is called gradually became more tame, and eventually Judy was able to get her into a cat carrier and to the vets for a check-up. Now many months later she is been spayed and has turned into a beautiful house cat. But don't ask the other two felines, they are still a little iffy about the whole new cat thing.
The first collage is Sadie, and Dolly. Dolly is the brown cat in the rocking chair, and Sadie is the grey one. She loves Christmas ribbon and especially the Christmas tree., and wanted to be the center of attention that day.

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We saw this cute little gal on a ride we took Thursday. She was eating corn right next to a farmer's corn crib.
To see more photos of her scroll down and check out my post from Friday Dec. 5th. Maybe you can help me ID some ducks too.
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