Between A Rock And A Hard Cat

Blue Moon at dawn

Sunrise

While I was standing in the river shooting the sunrise, Jaws started swimming towards me. 

Harry, the Hairy Woodpecker, pecking on a cottonwood

Mama Owl at sunrise

Spunk noticed there was a lot of orange in the floral arrangement and added his tail.

“Ahem! Pesky Paparazzo, cheez is also orange!”

“That’s more like it!”

Norte Pond has become Notre trou de boue

Neil Diamond produces a cracklin’ rose

Sunset

Spunk’s tail between a rock and a hard cat.

Post sunset colors

Silver

Daddy Owl at dusk

Dusk

Three Doves And A Grosbeak

Ash-throated Flycatcher at sunrise

Lone Owlet at sunrise

Watching a Cooper’s Hawk fly into the tree and start chattering a the owlet

Daddy flew in right after the Cooper’s Hawk

He had a gopher for Mama and Lone Owlet

Mama Owl giving the pesky paparazzo mad dogs

A Killdeer at Beaver Point

Three doves and a Grosbeak

Then I saw another Killdeer at The Beach

Eastern Bluebird

Say’s Phoebe

Eastern Bluebird

Silver

Guard hummingbird

Loki

Lone Owlet at sunset

Dusk

Beaver at dusk

Can you find the beaver in the above photo?

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

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

Shock Of The Old

Dawn

I got a “May the 4th be with you” beaver bitch slap at dawn

Killdeer

Spunk

Windows 95 still booted on a 1997 Winbook FX

Silver’s shock of the old!

Sasha’s less dramatic shock of the old!

Nothing shocks El Vato…

He’s was bullied by large, mean dogs before moving in with Laurie’s parents.

A dark dusk

Daytime

Spunk and Silver

We met on nice horse on our mid-morning walk

Jake chillin’ in the shade

Silver

Loki

Jake: “I say! I say! You’re boring me boy!”

Comorant hanging out in the middle of the river

Sunset

Mystery Kitty Says Hi!

Dawn

Can you find the owlette?

Sunrise

Gwendolyn

Glenda

Sliver sleeping

Cat 5

Spunk

Loki

Mystery Kitty

The mystery kitty started hanging around last summer, fighting with our cats through the wire in the catio. You can read more about that at https://wp.me/p1yQyy-cr8. He has always run away from us whenever he sees us, but Laurie noticed he’d been looking thin, so she started leaving food and water out for him. He was meowing at the Sally port door this afternoon, and our cats were not fighting with him through the wire. I walked out the door and he ran. I sat down on the step and called him. He slowly came back, sniffed me, got up on the step next to me, and let me pet him for a few seconds before he ran off again. I went back inside and in a few minutes he was meowing at the door again. I took a can of cat food out and put it in his food bowl, and he really appreciated the canned food. I sat on the step with him eating at my feet and took a few photos. He definitely looks rougher than he did when we first started seeing him last summer.

The humming bird that was buzzing aroung us while the mystery kitty was eating.

If you didn’t find the owlet in the long shot, here’s a closer view.

Sunset