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Message 1866890 - Posted: 12 May 2017, 12:28:24 UTC - in response to Message 1866591.  

I see a lot of them like that and enjoy them just as much as a field of them. :)

Nice picture GRU



Thanks...took this this afternoon while walking up to Trow Gill, near Ingleborough....sunlight shining onto a rhododendron bud..



Lovely......
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Message 1866891 - Posted: 12 May 2017, 12:29:53 UTC - in response to Message 1865453.  

I call this one "Spider Tree". It's a street light behind a leaf bare tree on a winter night. Dupont, WA



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Message 1866995 - Posted: 12 May 2017, 21:15:54 UTC

I never seen a tree like that, when I first seen it I thought it was a tumble weed. LOL Of course you wouldn't have them there.

in New Mexico they were all over the place.
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Message 1867137 - Posted: 13 May 2017, 16:59:36 UTC

This is from a few years back. I hang hummingbird feeders out every year as the
ruby throated hummingbirds start their northern migration. They get to my area
in central Texas around March 15 each year. I seldom have more than two or three
hummers at my feeders at any one time, and one is usually trying to chase the
others off. On this day, however, I had several hummers at my feeder for some
unknown reason. So many, in fact, that I put up a second feeder nearby. Note that
these are all female. You can tell because their throats are not red/purple. (I
think that applies to juvenile males, as well, so some of these - or all of these -
might be boys.) I count eight, and others were flying nearby.

I wonder what the spider is thinking.


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Message 1867175 - Posted: 13 May 2017, 23:34:52 UTC - in response to Message 1867137.  

I wonder what the spider is thinking.

Party crashers!

Love it, eight hummers in that one photo.

If still not showing color it could have been a family outing. I'm not sure when hummers cut the apron strings.
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Message 1867188 - Posted: 14 May 2017, 0:58:49 UTC - in response to Message 1867182.  

Believe it or not they can be quite territorial, being attacked by a hummingbird is weird.
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Message 1867205 - Posted: 14 May 2017, 2:16:57 UTC

Yesterday I was in the woods and this one tree had 4 Hummingbird nests in it, I tryed to get a good shot of them but didn't turn out all that well.
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Message 1867305 - Posted: 14 May 2017, 19:40:24 UTC - in response to Message 1867137.  


I wonder what the spider is thinking.


Glad the menu is upmarket today!!!!
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Message 1867430 - Posted: 15 May 2017, 14:29:16 UTC

I seen someone else this morning on Facebook that had 4 hummingbirds at the feeder and when he got up close they didn't even fly away.
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Message 1867621 - Posted: 17 May 2017, 3:20:29 UTC

Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a bunny rabbit.

Meet Bob. This little guy showed up yesterday with mom and dad in tow. I've never seen a squirrel with no tail. He's got a stub looks like. I can't see any wound/healed area. Looks natural.





I'll spike the patio with more cracked/broken sunflower seeds and see if he is a local and get more photos. His parents look familiar. They will sit there and eat the crushed seeds. Anything else they fill their face then scamper away and bury it in the yard.
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Message 1867650 - Posted: 17 May 2017, 5:23:25 UTC
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My Dad had a hell of a time with squirrels back in the 30's, they tore up the whole attic and wiring, the city came in and cut the population down. Just what they did I don't know.
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Message 1867667 - Posted: 17 May 2017, 7:42:02 UTC
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Just a quickie which I will post here for my own reasons

This is growing outside my bedroom window here at my dad's



Anyone know what it is?
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Message 1867837 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 1:59:01 UTC - in response to Message 1867621.  

Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a bunny rabbit.

Meet Bob. This little guy showed up yesterday with mom and dad in tow. I've never seen a squirrel with no tail. He's got a stub looks like. I can't see any wound/healed area. Looks natural.

I'll spike the patio with more cracked/broken sunflower seeds and see if he is a local and get more photos. His parents look familiar. They will sit there and eat the crushed seeds. Anything else they fill their face then scamper away and bury it in the yard.


Google says tailless squirrels are quite common and that it's almost definitely
due to an attack by a predator. As far as anyone knows, squirrels are never born
without a tail.

Of course, other articles might say something different. I only checked the first
couple of results.
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Message 1867880 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 6:12:32 UTC - in response to Message 1867837.  

Thanks for looking.

Turns out Bob is really Bobbie. She came around today alone. She must have lost her tail when really young. Can't see a scar.

Oops, my images are little too big. I will correct that tomorrow. Too late tonight.






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Message 1867893 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 8:39:03 UTC - in response to Message 1867837.  

Here we even have a song about squirrels and their tails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAOAln9m8K8
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Message 1867901 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 9:29:34 UTC

Got the idea but not the words. LOL
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Message 1867907 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 10:03:49 UTC - in response to Message 1867901.  
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The squirrel was sitting in the spruce,
Should scale the cones,
When he heard the children,
Then he had to hurry away.
He jumped onto a pine branch,
He bumped his little leg
And the long furry tail.

Text and music by Alice Tegnér, published in 1892
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Message 1867912 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 11:02:06 UTC - in response to Message 1867678.  

Looks like it may be a rhoderdendron....looking at the shape of the leaves...

I think it's a rhoderdendron as well.
Just walked our dog Tosca and passed by a rhoderdendron bush.
However they they haven't blossomed yet.
Maybe tomorrow.
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Message 1867934 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 13:32:55 UTC - in response to Message 1867621.  
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I've never seen a squirrel with no tail.


It is unusual alright...almost like a rat without a tail....:-)
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Message 1867935 - Posted: 18 May 2017, 13:35:35 UTC - in response to Message 1867667.  

Anyone know what it is?


Usually like acidic soil.....Rhododendron...not sure which type....
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