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Dec. 10th, 2003 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayreTo make up for too many gloomy posts lately, here's some new nature pics.
If how fat the squirrels get is an indication of how bad the winter will be... we're in big trouble up here!
On the drive home after Thanksgiving, I thought I saw a deer in a cornfield... realized it wasn't a deer, yelled for hubby to stop, and took pictures out the window as quickly as I could. My sister the naturalist agrees that it's a coyote.
Just a mile or so later, I yelled "stop!" again at the sight of a kestrel in a characteristic perch-- the center of an arc of phone line, rather than near a pole. I was thrilled to get a few shots of two kestrels fighting moments later.
We took a walk in an old cemetery later that day. There were quite a few elaborate 'tree-trunk' style monuments; this one is a nice example of life imitating art.
Don't think I've ever shared this pic of a red-bellied woodpecker at our birdfeeder. (It's called a red-bellied because it does have some red under the wings, unlike the red-headed woodpecker that got the more obvious name.)
Bonus pic: our cats. This clearly shows how cold it was while the furnace was out; I've never seen all three that close together before (sharing our electric blanket). The calico is Fractal, hubby's cat; in the middle is Oscar, kidlet's owner; and Felix, my cat, is on the right.
If how fat the squirrels get is an indication of how bad the winter will be... we're in big trouble up here!
On the drive home after Thanksgiving, I thought I saw a deer in a cornfield... realized it wasn't a deer, yelled for hubby to stop, and took pictures out the window as quickly as I could. My sister the naturalist agrees that it's a coyote.
Just a mile or so later, I yelled "stop!" again at the sight of a kestrel in a characteristic perch-- the center of an arc of phone line, rather than near a pole. I was thrilled to get a few shots of two kestrels fighting moments later.
We took a walk in an old cemetery later that day. There were quite a few elaborate 'tree-trunk' style monuments; this one is a nice example of life imitating art.
Don't think I've ever shared this pic of a red-bellied woodpecker at our birdfeeder. (It's called a red-bellied because it does have some red under the wings, unlike the red-headed woodpecker that got the more obvious name.)
Bonus pic: our cats. This clearly shows how cold it was while the furnace was out; I've never seen all three that close together before (sharing our electric blanket). The calico is Fractal, hubby's cat; in the middle is Oscar, kidlet's owner; and Felix, my cat, is on the right.
