Good Bunny Labbit, Cinnamon cat

 It was a surprise! She saw me watching her from the window, and moved to the lilac bushes.

I'd noticed her tracks out back, she came from the burrow under the septic bed, and headed back along another route. I enjoy seeing her.

I did a 'Jenn's Mess' dinner. Broccolini, red peppers, and pineapple, as well as pork chops. 

After dinner, we watched Cinnamon. You might have had to be there! He approached the box, putting a paw on the edge, and her pulled it over. He ran off in surprise.

Apparently he did 't scare himself too much, as he came back to sit in the box. We had a good giggle.

Wednesday was busy, taking cats to the vet. Joe isn't feeling well, coughing and wheezing with a cold. I took them myself. More on that tomorrow. 

It's warming up! Despite that we had snow, but it was quite melty. Spring is on the horizon. Soon Butch racoon will be visiting again! Here are two we released last fall.

Odds and sods...

Winter, winter, winter... The birds are managing just fine! I'm kinda getting weary of it all.

The turkeys are enjoying deer food. Two of the three flew up on to the fence. 

They usually walk, sinking into the snow, but if there is a reason they will fly.

One can only spend so much time outside. 

I am having fun watching the people at Smiths Falls Home Hardware store online. They have been doing the best AI ads on Facebook. They really make me giggle. And we all need that these days. 

I made an AI image of Fred Groundhog based on my photo. She is, of course, sleeping in her burrow under knee-deep snow. It'll be a minute before we see her!

Indoors (it's terribly cold out), we played. Nutmeg went for the box. After I chucked 4 toys and then a cat treat in it. The next day, Cinnamon took ownership of the box!

Cinnamon appears to be studying the night light!

Jordan had a great study week at home during Reading Week. He took the Flixbus back to Kingston. I happened to have an image of a bus from my drive into Carleton Place last week.

Who goes there in the night?

We had more snow. I managed with the blower. I was so happy to have it back. This was 14cm worth.

 

With snow comes more tracks. I'm finding that Good Bunny Labbit is so fast, she doesn't register on the camera. I have to go clip by clip. Ah well. It satisfies my curiosity. 

There are tracks here, perhaps #75 squirrel, and another mystery. 

The snow height discouraged it. 

I looked at these as I took the garbage out Monday morning. Not as long and thin as Butch raccoon, and the pattern is different. I wrote a piece on animal tracks for our local lake newsletter. The stride of this track is short. Fishers have five obvious toe pads. 

Look who I found on the camera! Skunks are omnivores, both plant and other animals. They eat just about anything: bugs, mice, eggs, insects, worms, grubs, bird seed,  plus fungi, roots, leaves and berries, most of which are scarce right now! 

The gate patterns I haven't seen before. Mostly the skunks have been around in the other three seasons. Not winter.

 

We often have a skunk roll by in the dark, this one was lactating. While they are crepuscular (active dusk and dawn) they den up in winter for extended periods. They aren't true hibernators, like Fred Groundhog. A lot of our little mammals do this, like Butch who holes up in the really cold weather.  

I seldom see them in the day time. This one pretty much ignored me.

Feed the birds!

I ordered a new topper for this feeder. It's supposed to be a squirrel baffle, but it works well for the tray feeder to keep rain and snow off.  The only issue is getting it hooked on properly! 

  

 The plastic hook doesn't hold well. It took me a half hour to MacGyver it! It has to hold tightly since the deer like to go after the tray feeder. 

There were squirrel issues on that spring-like day. With the warm temperatures, I think they were twitterpated. I didn't see any of them after the snowy day and cold temps. And since just the one.

This is the action shot! 

I counted 2 squirrels in front, went out back and counted 9! They are all Gray Squirrels (black morph).

I couldn't get them all in the one photo!

#75's nest box:

Even the red squirrel hung around!

 

I have to say that the foofoerah around gold, silver or bronze just doesn't matter  to me as a fan. The difference between 1, 2 or 3, in fact the top ten finishers, is so close, by mm or 1/100th of a second. I know all the participants gave it their all. I have American friends. I am happy for them. They are suffering from their president. The orange one is merciless.

At least average Americans can be happy about getting gold. I know many of them are shocked, angry, and terribly upset with what is going on in their country. I hope this gives them some joy. 

I think a better way to sort the medal list is by totals. I'd totalled our top 10 finishes, which is a feat unto itself. It's all a miracle.