Category Archives: Saturday’s Critters

Saturday’s Critters – New Bird Feeder

I loved my old bird feeder but it finally gave up on my a week or so ago. It’s weakness was that it had a separate solar collector from the feeder. The squirrels like to chew through the power cable between the two and birds liked to perch on it. I spliced the wires several times and took measures to protect it but it wasn’t enough. So I got a new model with an integrated solar collector on the roof of it. No exposed wire.

A female cardinal. The camera is a big hit. I get over 300 birds a day visiting it. I limit the food because I cannot feed them all.

A male cardinal.

A crow come to call and gave the camera the evil eye.

Lots and lots of mourning doves. They tend to eat a lot.

I rigged up my trail cam to keep an eye on the bird cam.

Lots of birds look right at the camera.

And an old guy with a funny hat mowing the weeds in the back yard.

And a 24 second short video compilation of some of the bird feeder videos. At the end there is a few second segment of a black swan chasing geese off the neighborhood pond. Special note, it is not 3026!

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Saturday’s Lego Critters and Shadows at Tulsa Botanic Garden

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Saturday afternoon the family loaded up and drove to the Tulsa Botanic Gardens. The tulips are blooming plus they have a special exhibit of Lego Creatures by Sean Kinney we wanted to see. The tulips were great, maybe just a tad past prime, and enjoyed the Lego critters.

First up, a fox, including a tree shadow.

A gigantic butterfly

Little Lego Bunnies

And origami bunnies in the childrens’ area.

A snail on a mushroom

A frog on a lilly pad.

And a bird feeder with cardinals and a squirrel.

They also had a lawnmower and a rototiller and other things. Below is a video of all the lego creations we saw. It’s only a tad over a minute long.

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Dumb Bunny Mommas

Several days ago, Heather, my wife noticed that there were baby bunnies stashed in one of her unused pots. She checked on them a couple times and then I rigged up my trail cam to overlook the pot.

When I check the camera the next day, sure enough, a moma rabbit showed up at about 6:30 am. Heather had read that the mommas check and feed their kits right before dawn.

So the mom got up there and hopped around a little bit. I’m not showing ever pic. The one above is the next to last one in the sequence.

And then there is about a ten minute time where mom is checking and feeding her babies.

When I pulled the chip and saw what was happening, Heather went out and checked and the kits are still alive. She checked on them yesterday and this afternoon. They are still alive and growing. So that is kind of cool but we are concerned about their future. Which the future of rabbits is not a very happy subject under the best of circumstances.

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Saturday’s Critters – Backyard Birds

A robin sitting on our backyard fence

Some puffed up Mourning Doves, trying to stay warm in the sun.

A house sparrow getting a bite to eat at our e-birdfeeder

A short video of a sampling of birds visiting our feeder recently.

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Saturday’s Critters – In and Around the House and on the Trails

A sparrow on my backyard efeeder. I’ve finally figured out how to not feed squirrels. Habanero flavored bird food and safflower seeds seem to do the trick.

A male cardinal getting a drink.

An Eastern Bluebird. So handsome!!

Another male cardinal singing at the top of a tree.

A turtle I spotted on a hike.

Our sweet cat Lizzy taking a nap.

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Saturday’s Critters – The Bison Herd at Lafortune Park

There is a bronze bison herd at Tulsa’s Lafortune Park. They added on to it a few months ago and I finally went over to see it.

Bison make for great sculptures because they look so powerful and they have this sense of movement even when they are standing still.

So these new additions look great and complement the others already there.

And everyone loves the “Red Dogs” the bison calves who play and cavort just like their real life counterparts do.

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Critters found on Turkey Mountain and More

I went on a hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness the other day. I found this deer back in the brush. By the time I turned manual focus on, this deer and their two companions were gone.

Got a mile or so further and came up on some birds. I think they were tufted titmice. They were also hard to focus on but I got a few shots. They are extremely grainy because the birds are extremely small and even with my 300 mm lens I had to crop them a lot.

Merlin told me that it heard a northern flicker and a cardinal in the area as well. I spotted a northern cardinal and its mate but they were moving around too much for me.

And later at the far northern end of Turkey Mountain at Pepsi Lake I found these mallard ducks. It looks like two males were romancing a female. Today is Valentines day so I wonder what they got her.

I also saw a great blue heron.

At home a male cardinal visited the efeeder.

A dark eyed junco. I love these guys.

A house finch. Such loud voices from very small birds.

A squirrel caught on the trailcam.

Inside the house, Lizzy the cat was snoozing.

Kodi the Pomeranian was being his cute self.

Sadie was cuddling up in a throw.

That’s all folks. I’m linking with Eileen’s Saturday’s Critters.

Something to Crow About

The other day I was outside with the dogs and I noticed this squirrel frozen in place on a branch.

I think it was worried about these crows who were on a wire in the green space behind our backyard. I had never thought of crows being a threat to squirrels, but what I read on the interwebs is that they sometimes will attack young squirrels but are hesitant about taking on grown squirrels because apparently grown squirrels will fight back.

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Saturday’s Critters – Last of January 2026

It has been very cold here in Tulsa after our snow. Sadie has finally adapted. She loves to go outside and run around in the snow.

It exhausts her though. So she falls asleep in my lap while I’m watching tv at night.

Snow doesn’t phase our little Pom Kodi at all. We put him on a diet and it seems to be working so now he’s wanting to play fetch with me and Sadie, and he and Sadie chase each other around the house. He’s livened up quite a bit.

I’ve been trying to keep the birds fed using suet balls and other high energy foods. This cardinal wasn’t complaining.

I think this is a Carolina Wren that came by for a bite.

We get dark eyed juncos both on the feeder and on the ground.

There is something special about juncos.

And the opposite for the quiet juncos at the bluejays. Squawk, squawk, they say whenever they visit,.

A through the window photo.

And we get lots of doves. This one is all puffed up against the cold.

We had a bunch of hawks one afternoon. Noisy and boistrous.

Lots of squirrels.

That’s it for this week.

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Saturday’s Critters – Winter Storm Fern Edition

My hiking friend and I went on a five mile hike on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain on Thursday. The weather was almost shirtsleeve warm. We saw this great blue heron fishing in one of the ponds. All I had was my cell phone so sorry about the graininess.

After almost a year together our two dogs, Kodi the Pom, and Sadie the Terrier have almost started playing together. I guess if this were human kids it would be called adjacent play. They seem to enjoy each other’s company now.

Kodi hides under this table when my wife is gone. He always has such a tragic expression.

Lizzie checking on the goings on out in front of the house.

This fiberglass penguin has its own geocache.

Winter Storm Fern came to northeast Oklahoma last night. This was the scene this morning. Not too bad. Not even an inch of snow. We are supposed to get more later on today and tonight.

And the backyard. Kodi the Pom got up this morning and went outside and did his business. He loves snow. Sadie is having a hard time. She wouldn’t do her business last night so she needed out at 3 am. I took her out and she peed and ran back into the house. She was in a world of hurt this morning. She needed to poop bad but wouldn’t go outside and wouldn’t go on a pad in the house. Finally I carried her out and plopped her in the middle of the yard and she saw a squirrel and she ran after it, completely forgetting about the snow, and then did her business. She felt so much better, she was running around the yard. (Sorry if this is TMI.)

We have a steady stream of visitors to the efeeder. Here is a short 12 second video of a male and female cardinal and a dark eyed junco taking advantage of the suet and seeds that I put out for them.

That’s it for now. We are staying home today and maybe tomorrow depending on road conditions. If you are in the winter storm, please stay safe.

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