In The Dog House With The Cats

The cat food bag at 5:00 a.m.

The cats got me up at 5:00 a.m. to feed them like they do every morning; however, when I opened the bag to get their food, the bag was empty, except for six kibbles, which was one kibble short of the clowder swarming around my feet. Oops! I forgot to drop by the store on the way home from work last night to get kitty food.

Silver: “Don’t give me any of your cockamamie malarkey about ‘Let them eat tomatoes!’, which is pronounced toemahtoes, BTW, pathetic Paparazzo, because it ain’t going to stinking happen!”

Gwendolyn: “YOU STINKING, PATHETHEIC, LAME BRAINED, PREHISTORIC POPARAZZO!!!! Knuckle dragging, sorry excuse of a silver-haired Sasquatch. You irresponsible, long-haired redneck rascal! I can’t BELIEVE you FORGOT to stop by the store to get us kitty food on your way home from work. It’s been like over 12 hours since we’ve eaten! That’s like 12 years for our kitty stomachs. Now you listen to me, and you listen good, PAPARAZZO!!! You get in your stinking little sports car, and you stinking speed to that stinking store as soon as it opens and get us some STINKING KITTY FOOD! UNDERSTOOD?

Meanwhile, back in bed, I slept in until 6:30 a.m. because it was 27º F (-2.8º C) when the cats got me up at five to fail at feeding them. When Jake and I left for our walk at 7:00 a.m. the temperature had dropped another degree.

Geese in the mist again

Sun streaks in the mist

Sunrise in the mist

After I got back from the store and fed the cats, I worked on winterizing the outdoor kitchen and the irrigation system.

Glenda: “I forgive you, forgetful Paparazzo!”

Content cats

Loki and I sitting in front of the fire doing Duolingo.

Cranes flew by at sunset

A touch of pink

All Your Geese Are Belong To Us

Dawn

Daily Doppel

I had to stop by and feed Sil on my way home this afternoon.

kitty Monster keeping an on on me.

Turkey Vulture

Storm clouds produced no rain even though I left my clean car out as bait.

Box huggers: silver and Loki protesting me tearing down boxes to take out to the recycling bin.

Glenda

Uh-oh! Some one set up us some geese!

Ran into coyotes at dusk

Dusk

Another Skedaddle Paddle

Dawn

“Oh! No! Il Paparazo and his big bazooka, again!

Snowy Egret flyby

Spotted Sandpiper

Doing the Sandpiper Boogie

A mama goose with four goslings

Practicing gosling ballet

“What do you mean, say I look like a dork!”

“Not only do you look like a dork! You look like a dorky duck!”

“Well! I never! Come on, Donald, we don’t have to listen to this lowly teenager insult us!”

“That’s obvious, given they have no ducklings!”

Spotted Tohee

Yellow-breasted Chat

Both owlets are hanging around outside the nest. One low. One high.

Morning bunny

Black Phoebe

Sunset

Black-crowned Night Heron

Venus and the Sliver Moon

Jupiter and four moons

Got Her Ducklings In A Row

Sunrise

White-brested Nuthatch

Bushtit

Northern Rough-winged Swallows

Killdeer in the corner

“Make a skedaddle paddle for the bank boys, there a paparazzo pointing a bazooka at us!”

Maybe the paparazo is not as much of a threat as they thought.

Mama duck got her ducklings in a row.

Spunk: “Whoa! Look at that sunset extravaganza!”

Summer Tanager In Spring

We were not able to go on a walk until sunset

Wynona stopped by to say hi

Can you find Wynona in the above photo?

Who do you think hold its beak under water the longest? Looks like the far duck won.

Goose family

Can you find Daddy Owl in the above photo?

While I was photographing Daddy Owl, I heard a chirping close by, and there was a Summer Tanager perched right in front of me. I could barely see him in the darkness.

The clearest shot I could get of the owlet in the darkness. I could not find were the out-of-nest owlet was tonight.

Peony

Sasha looking cute in the catio

Doppel standing on the translucent roof in the catio

Gwendolyn

Silver in a state of cator mortis

Mother Goose

One of the owlets is hanging out outside of the nest

Other owlet is staying in the nest

Mama Owl

One turtle

Another turtle

Two turtles in the mud puddle

Western Tanager

pTerodactyl

Mourning Dove

Mother Goose and her goslings

Father Goose

Lark Sparrow

Chirp, chirp-chrip, chirp-chirp-chirp
Chirp-chrip, chirp-chirp-chirp, chrip-chirp

Sing us a song you’re a Towhee bird
Sing us a song today
We’re all in the mood for a melody
And you have us feeling okay

Crazy Bushtit

Blue Grosbeak love or Not!

Yellow-breasted Chat

Jetty sculpture garden in the Rio Grande

Bullfrog

Female Hepatic Tanager

Owlete after sunrise

Out-of-nest owlet snoozing on the tree trunk

Blue Grosbeak

Out-of-nest owlet snoozing on a large branch at sunset

Turtles have their heads barely out of the water, holding their mouths open, waiting for a meal to come close enough to snatch.

Beaver Coyote Overdrive

Goosey Dawn

Crow

Beavers have been taking care of business dragging willows to the river.

Coyote: “Is that Wynona taking care of beaver business I spy?”

Wynona taking care of beaver business

Wynona: “Take that stupid coyote and paparazzo!”

Handsome Coyote

Vato was hanging out on the fridge when I dropped by to pick up Jake

Spunk

Silver

No clouds dusk

Venus