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Saturday’s Critters – Backyard Edition, Mostly

Sadie the Terrier and Kodi the Pomeranian Chewing their chews

Sadie the Terrier and Kodi the Pomeranian love their “Turkey Tenderloins.” They immediately run to a dog bed we have in the living room and get to work on them. They will do anything the treats.

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From the camera feeder. Two grackles getting irritated with each other.

Lizzie the Cat

And Lizzy the Cat looking at me all irritated and everything.

Squirrel on Camera Feeder

And from earlier this summer. I rigged a trailcam up to look at the camera feeder and caught a squirrel running away with a peanut.

Mourning Dove and Grackle having a tussle

Also from May I caught the colorful plumage of a dove as a grackle chased it off. I had never seen this view of a dove before.

Turkey Mountain Birdhouse

And from a recent hike I saw this birdhouse somebody put up. I don’t know who Evie is but I love her birdhouse.

That’s it for this week. I hope everyone is enjoying the weather. We have a had a streak of over 100F days and it is expected to continue until at least next week. I sure do enjoy reading the blog posts from Australia and New Zealand. I am really liking them describing how cold the winter is down there. I’m looking forward to our own winter.

I am linking with Saturday’s Critters

Backyard Trail Camera Shadows

I got a trail camera that I use just for the backyard. Mostly I train it on our bird feeders or baths and occasionally on the ground to see what kind of critters are lurking there. It is motion activated and during windy times tree and shrub branches can set it off. It’s a numbers game. I’ll literally get 1000 to 2000 shots and I get maybe two to four that are worth anything. I don’t do video any longer because screening and editing video just takes too long.

This time though I captured a couple of bird shadows.

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I love the grackle shadow on the fence. The grackle is above and to the left of the shadow. Grackles are just noisy riotous birds. I wish they would go away. They do make cool shadows though. There is another bird to the left of the feeder and at the same angle. We don’t see his shadow though.

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I think I finally figured out this photo. The Shadow shows a long bird. Who knows though because at nearly noon, the sun is pretty high. I’m thinking that is from the bird up above and to the left of the shadow. It looks like a hawk or something. Maybe a small sharp shinned hawk. We have lots of prey for them. I’ve seen the hawks land on the ground and walk into shrubs and come out with baby rabbits. We also have squirrels and lots of birds.

I am linking up with Lisa’s Shadows Shot Sunday