Category Archives: Camera Critters

Camera Critters – Island Park, Idaho

On a recent trip to Idaho to see family we stayed at a lodge out in the middle of nowhere. There were critters all over the place.

Horses running back to their pasture in the evening from the corral after several trail rides. In the morning they run they other the way. I guess its their daily commute. The trail boss herds them with a four wheeler. What’s up with that?

From the same perspective, a fuzzy picture of a what I’m told is a Mountain Bluebird. The State Bird of Idaho. He spent a lot of time perched there.

We found out why that night. We heard a terrific commotion going on outside. A squirrel was looking for a new place to live and was checking out the bird’s nest and the bird was having none of it. It finally ran the squirrel off a long ways.

A fuzzy picture of hawk, looking for dinner. It spent a lot time patiently waiting on that perch. Note the moon toward the upper end of the photograph.

A well cammo’ed toad in the woods.For other pictures of critters from all over. Check out Camera Critters.

Camera Critters #2 – Our Family

We have too many critters in our Family! We are keeping them all though.

Below is the Queen, a rescued Maine Coon. Is she grateful? Sure she is. Her name is Chrissy and she is about 6 years old or so. We recently acquired the chair. Little did we know we got her a throne.

As you can tell, she is very comfortable in her position as Queen.


And below is the prince, LJ. LJ is just a few months old and he isn’t afraid of anyone. Not even the Queen.

Every once in a while he gets a little cheeky with the Queen and she has to have a talk with the boy. This is Abby. Abby is half Maltese, half Shitzu, and she is our fun loving play puppy. She is only a couple years old. She is a lot of fun but she is a brat.

She is very easy to get along with but even she has to have a talk with the boy every now and then.

This is Ginger, some sort of Dachsund mix. She is our sweet puppy. She loves to curl up with you while you are reading or watching TV. LJ doesn’t mess with her much. So I don’t have any pictures of any discussions between the two of them.

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A Herd of Birds


Earlier this week I went out on what us oilfield trash in the energy business call a “foilage tour.” My employer has some projects going on in western Oklahoma that I had a hand in so went to check them out. Not that I have anything to contribute to them at this point besides get in the way and impede progress.

I had finished looking at what I came to look at and I was taking the back roads home. I was on a gravel county road when I saw some critters out walking in a wheat field. I did a double take and saw this group of birds. I’m not sure what they are, herons or cranes come to mind, and I’m sorry for the quality of the picture but it is the best I have.

There were other groups further out in the field walking around also. I have seen these birds in rivers standing alone looking for something to eat I always presumed.

Now, I know that birds come in flocks not herds. These birds looked like they were in a herd.

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Supplement! Fishing Guy and a few other people said that the birds were sandhill cranes. I googled them and looked at the pictures available and to this unexpert eye, I think they are right. I found out from the International Crane Foundation site that sandhill cranes are the most populous cranes in the world and it is also the oldest bird species still surviving (10 million years+). Fishing Guy also pointed out that a herd (flock) of cranes is a sedge.

Thanks Fishing Guy for taking the time to let us know what the birds are.

Thanks guys, I love learning this kind of stuff.

Making Progress

For Christmas, son SuperPizzaBoy got a black and white kitten. He named him “LJ” and declared LJ to be his “Only Son.” So Sweetie and I instantly became grandparents a few years earlier than what we planned. SPB loves LJ, and so does everbody else in the household.

Except Chrissy our 20 pound maine coon who only likes me, and not that much either. She can, and often does, swats LJ off the bed with one swipe of her huge claws.

Lately though, she is letting LJ lay nearby, as long as he stays still. She won’t play with him though, maybe later.


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Camera Critters #1

Last weekend on a warm sunny day we went for a walk. We took Abby and Ginger on a new dual harness. After a little discussion between them about who is going to go on what side it worked about very well. Changing directions continued to be an issue.

Then we went to pick up son, SuperPizzaBoy, at his friend Nicholas’ house. Nicholas has chickens and a guinea fowl. The guinea is the alarm system for the rest of the flock and he was sounding off when Ginger and Abby started giving the flock a good barking from the car.

There are also a couple sheep. They don’t get too excited about anything.

The family has a pair of peacocks but they were being camera shy that day. Maybe next time.

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