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![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 Mar 17 Posts: 175 Credit: 4,015,683 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I see a lot of them like that and enjoy them just as much as a field of them. :) Lovely...... |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 Mar 17 Posts: 175 Credit: 4,015,683 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I call this one "Spider Tree". It's a street light behind a leaf bare tree on a winter night. Dupont, WA Some angle!! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 May 12 Posts: 8022 Credit: 4,237,757 RAC: 0 ![]() |
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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3371 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 ![]() |
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. ![]() ~Sue~ ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 ![]() |
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. ... ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11447 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 ![]() ![]() |
Believe it or not they can be quite territorial, being attacked by a hummingbird is weird. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 May 12 Posts: 8022 Credit: 4,237,757 RAC: 0 ![]() |
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. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 Mar 17 Posts: 175 Credit: 4,015,683 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Glad the menu is upmarket today!!!! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 May 12 Posts: 8022 Credit: 4,237,757 RAC: 0 ![]() |
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. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 ![]() |
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. ... ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 May 12 Posts: 8022 Credit: 4,237,757 RAC: 0 ![]() |
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. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 ![]() ![]() |
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? |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3371 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 ![]() |
Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a bunny rabbit. 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. ~Sue~ ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 ![]() |
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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ... ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Here we even have a song about squirrels and their tails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAOAln9m8K8 |
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Got the idea but not the words. LOL |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 ![]() |
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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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. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 Mar 17 Posts: 175 Credit: 4,015,683 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I've never seen a squirrel with no tail. It is unusual alright...almost like a rat without a tail....:-) |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 23 Mar 17 Posts: 175 Credit: 4,015,683 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Anyone know what it is? Usually like acidic soil.....Rhododendron...not sure which type.... |
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