From the Backyard TrailCam
A male cardinal coming in for a landing
And his lady friend a minute or two later
This squirrel is walking with purpose
This guy freezes
Out and About
At Woodward Park in the Daffodils, Kodi with my wife and son on a family outing last week.
At Home
Lizzie catching a nap in the front room.
From the Air
Kodi is not sure that he likes drones.
That’s it for this week. I’m linking with Eileen’s Saturday’s Critters.
Last weekend, son Logan and I went for a little hike at Tulsa’s Oxley Nature Center. I was hopeful that we would view some deer or other animals.
Oxley has a diverse combination of meadows, marshlands, forests, creeks, and lakes.
An old highway running through the refuge used to be US 169 the main route from the north to downtown Tulsa. It is now part of the trail system at Oxley. It is kind of handy after it has rained and the dirt trails are muddy.
We took some back country trails. We didn’t see any deer the whole time.
And we went out to the lakes and creeks.
Makes for pretty scenes. There was not hardly anybody else out there even though it was a weekend.
We finally some waterfowl. I think these are geese.
I’m not sure what these are, sorry for the fuzzy photo. iNaturlist said “Ducks, Geese and Swans.”
Another fuzzy photo. Too fuzzy for iNaturalist to do much with. It guessed “Wigeons and Allies.”
Pretty good little walkaround on a nice day.
And a bonus.
Our Pomeranian puppy, Kodi taking a nap in his toy box.
And my wife with Kodi. He’s a lot of fun but he is a handful.
I’m linking with Saturday’s Critters. Come check it out, especially if you love animals.
Last Friday the family decided to go for walk at Tulsa’s Mary K. Oxley Nature Center. One of the best kept secrets in Tulsa. Acres and acres of trails, woods, marsh, lakes, and meadows and hardly anybody ever visits it.
Well somebody had been visiting. We saw a few of these in the park but they didn’t look like they had been used.
I love the big and small ponds, lakes, and streams on the property.
It looked like some beavers had been hard at work.
A sign needs either replacing or fetched.
A nice surprise were some pelicans. They were cruising about. The geese seemed a little put off their visitors.
Heather taking in the view near the photo blind.
Yep, I’m a lucky guy is what I think.
Heather and our gentle giant of a son, Logan checking out some storm damage from last year.
And here is our route. About 3 miles and a good mix of woods, open land, and water. We saw nobody else during our three miles.
I’m linking with Skywatch Friday this week.
A goose Trumpeter Swan I encountered Wednesday night. He was very cooperative and even posed for me. When I got a little closer he decided he had enough and waddled off into the water. Telling me to back off the whole time.
Thanks to my friends DrillerAA and EGCamera girl for setting me straight on what species this is.