So this coyote was just in our back yard…playing with and pulling the stuffing out of a stuffed dog toy that our girls left out there. I wish I had gotten a picture of that — but by the time Katie saw it and told me, it had already jumped the fence (this pic is our neighbor’s yard)!
I have definitely seen coyotes around, but they’ve all been small. Tom said this one was HUUUUGE!! Now we really have to be on the lookout when the dogs go out.
These buggers sure blend in well.
Baby bunny in a bowl…
Sooooo Ivy just brought a baby rabbit into the house…in her teeth. It wasn’t quite dead…so Tom had to kill it. Katie was a mess. Poor Ivy, I’m sure, just thought it was a toy.
We went outside to look for more (just in case) and Tom found the nest (and another bunny). As he was moving it outside the fence (to be near where we saw the mama bunny), I almost stepped on this one hiding in the grass.
We relocated that one, too.
Yes that’s a bird in our living room! It was really nice order so we had the sliding doors open so the dogs could wander in and out at their leisure. We do this a lot during nice weather so it was only a matter of time before it happened.
I closed all the doors (up and down) and Tom got a long pole. I opened the front screen door. It took about 10 minutes but it finally went out the front door.
Tom went into the gazebo for something and scared out a squirrel! Then look what he discovered…
The damn critter had been locked in the gazebo and had been trying to chew his way out! The kids had left the sliding door open for who knows how long and then Tom eventually noticed and shut it—obviously locking the damn thing in.
Just what we want to deal with.
My friend Cheri rescues baby squirrels so she brought one with her tonight and Owen and I got to hold him! Soooo tiny and cute! His eyes weren’t even open!
This bird feeder has been up for about a year now but the cat hardly pays attention to it. Well, a chipmunk has started visiting and Charlie still hasn’t noticed it…so today I literally pulled her out of the bed and forced her head in the direction to see it. She wasn’t having it so it took much longer than I thought it would, but then she saw it. And she was intense. (I thought we might get some chirping but we didn’t.) Now I can’t wait to see if she looks out on her own…
He’s been there for quite a while…
So we originally were going to have the lobster for dinner Saturday night, so I just threw the bag in the garage fridge and didn’t think about it. Fast forward to a change of plans and we weren’t going to eat them Saturday night but we still needed to get in that fridge. Imagine Tom’s surprise when he opened the door and the lobsters were trying to escape! They had made it out of the (untied) bag and were in the door compartment!
Uncle Doug and Aunt Marie took all the kids to Hartwick Pines and the kids got to hand-feed the birds! Katie got too freaked out but Owen did it!!
There’s nothing quite like hearing a scratching noise at the window, looking back, and seeing this. Yikes! The cat (sleeping in the bed) didn’t even realize what was happening.
Without really thinking this morning, I tossed a half-eaten biscuit out of the car, assuming some animal would come by and eat it. Later that day Katie came back to tell me there were lots of ants on her biscuit so I had to check it out. This is what happened.
We have lots of bunnies around. Katie has taken to screeching “BUNNY ALERT!” when she sees them. Tonight was actually a three bunny alert—can you see them?
Here you go:
The temps had cooled off nicely so I went for my walk after we got home from Owen’s game…and saw lots of nature! 🙂
We saw not one but two turtles on our family walk this morning!
I saw this little guy today! He completely freezes so I could get right up close to him.
How did I never see any snakes until after I saw the snake crossing sign? 🙂
And no, I don’t care that it was just a cute little green garter snake. Still creepy.
As we were packing up to leave the beach we spotted dolphins! I forgot about it until someone mentioned dolphins elsewhere and I thought “Hey, wait, I took pictures of the dolphins, why didn’t I see them?” Yeah, I had to REALLY zoom in…I had deleted the pics because I thought there was nothing in the pictures! 🙂
Owen found a roly poly out in his playset and asked if he could bring it up. Of course! Then it fell off the table and Katie got involved…and excited! 🙂
Then Owen had to go put him back so his mom and dad wouldn’t miss him. 🙂
Bugs? Don’t like ’em but I can deal. Frogs? Okay. Lizards? Fine. But snakes? AHHHHH.
I don’t do snakes.
Guess what Tom just found curled up in the garage…in the very center of our garage sale pile?!
He poked at it with a stick to get it moving. It travelled around a bit—and was probably 4-5′ long. FEET.
And then, if that wasn’t freaky enough…IT SLITHERED INTO THE MOLDING AROUND THE GARAGE DOOR FRAME.
DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY.
SO IT’S REALLY INSIDE THE GARAGE NOW.
We need to move today. 😐 I’m not sure I can go in the garage again.
Tom looked it up and it’s apparently a rat snake?! Tom says it’s a good snake. Sorry, there’s no such thing as a good snake.
/shudder
Here’s the conversation that happened on Facebook after I posted…
On the hunt!
Got it! I’m amazed he touched it—he’s never liked bugs.
Katie almost stepped on him as she walked by. This is what happened when I pointed him out:
I was FLABBERGASTED that Owen attempted to touch it—he doesn’t like bugs or normal little boy things.
But Katie loves that stuff and she was ENTHRALLED…getting as close as she could!
Owen barely took a cursory glance but Katie was ALL about it. We left it in the bug bin through dinner then Tom let it go.
