First, things are getting complicated over and near the Black Sea. Poland and the USA's FORTE 12 and navy planes were snooping around. People are watching them and it is good to know they have eyes on the activity.
It is awful, the bombings in Ukraine, and now Sudan has a civil war. My only problem today is getting the garbage out in the pouring rain. I cannot complain.
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Josephine named the baby porcupine (porcupette) Charlie! I don't know if you remember him from last year. I spotted it on a warmish winter day in February, but s/he looked so wee last year. They really are interesting creatures. Spending hours foraging for grass.
Charlie has grown a tad.
Porcupine from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
The Northern Flickers are still nesting. And toodling around the yard. This is the dead elm where they are nesting. I've heard the banging around the yard. I didn't realize it was the Northern Flicker! The Yellow-bellied sapsuckers do this, as well, but bang on the satellite tower.
flicker from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
This is the flicker's nesting tree. Soon we'll have sun and leaves, and they'll have little flickers flying about!
Pepper Apr. 27th from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
I had some doubts about this critter↓. I posted it to the trailcam Facebook group, and the consensus is FOX! It's black socks don't show up in the dark. At first I thought it a weasel.
fox & raccoon from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
We found a dock spider a couple of weeks ago, and we put it outdoors. There was another one in the house! Go at it, buddy! I couldn't catch it as it roared behind the TV stand.
11 comments:
...I only see porcupines laying in the road, sad.
Hello,
I have never seen a porcupine in the wild, cool. I would like to see a Flicker's nesting here. Take care, have a great week.
I am so glad that Pepper the cat is still doing well. I've had a few sightings of the Flickers in our area, ours seem to spent more time on the ground than in the trees, maybe because there are so many ants! I would like to have more sightings of live porcupines.
Charlie is so cute in his/her video. And a fox strolling by too! Sorry you're going to have wet feet today. Our rain came briefly last night and the sun woke me up!
Isn't it nice to see the world waking up? I hope the cats have never tangled with the porcupine! (Our collie did that once. It wasn't pretty!)
The sun has actually come out here this morning which is a surprise.
Charlie is good company.
The state of the world worries me. Thank you for sharing your critters - most of which I will never see or hear for myself.
Exciting critter reports!
It's years since I saw a porcupine. They are quite endearing in their own spiky way!
lovely to see the porcupine, we have a similar one but I rarely see them.
So. keeping spiders as pets? Cool, but it is beautiful actually. :)
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