A "Wild" Morning..

Maybe not what you thought.....It seemed that everything showed up at once this morning! We had two pileated woodpeckers sceaming at each other, sandhill cranes flying above, and to the west were five deer luckily spotted before I went out with Blast.

Trust was at the front window, excited about one of her bunny "friends" inside the fenced area. As they race around, she runs from window to window to watch. They are now almost all brown, obviously not realizing that snow is being called for on the weekend.

And worst of all, directly behind the house was a porcupine up a maple tree. Look at the claws on him; looks like a miniature grizzly bear. I'm afraid he was up there all day, snoozing and eating the new buds on the maple tree. I'd rather have a bear out there, you can scare them off.

So now he is down and I've no idea which direction he went in, therefore, a big issue taking the dogs for walks. I sure hope he kept going someplace....off our property!

Tracking Blast this morning.

Nothing better than an early morning field track...Blast just took his second corner (shown in orange) siting the 2 tall pines in the background. He's just over 11 months now, and doing very well. He did a 450 meter track with 4 corners, 5 legs and didn't notice the nesting Canada Goose in the background!

The Rodent Wins!!!

We have a ton of red squirrels this spring. They seem to take over the bird feeders, hanging upside down and jumping from one to other, chasing the birds away all the while they are here.
However, one in particular has kind of won me over with his determination to "own" this one feeder. He's worked and worked at the lid for days and finally managed to get it off. I might put it back on three or so times a day, and he always gets it off again. He won, I gave up!

He sits here eating until he's full and heaven help any other squirrel that tries to get on the feeder. Maybe he'll eat until he explodes.... But he is cute!