Two young squirrels decided to both eat in our feeder together.
Then when one squirrel used the other as a support, by resting paws on the head, I knew they must be siblings.
Squirrelly Squirrels
Category: Wildlife
Dueling meows
Thor the foster kitten was meowing upstairs, so I went up and played with him, giving him his first silver vine stick. He loved it.
I do put the stick away when I’m not in the room because I don’t want him eating splinters. And I had to put it away because Izzy started meowing downstairs. Really? Jealous much? I went down to find that she had brought a frog inside. She was praised as a mighty huntress before I caught the frog.
The frog was let loose in the garden outside. I seem to encourage talkative cats.
Caught red pawed
The squirrel feeder went empty, and I didn’t notice until I saw the squirrel at the window trying to get into the metal can where I keep the bag of food. It had chewed through the bungee cord securing the lid and was working on loosening the top. The freshly chewed end is visible in the picture above. When I went out to rectify the situation, the cord was still wet. I filled the feeder, retied the bungee cord, and snugged the lid down tight. Cheeky. This one is bold, which might explain his partial tail.
Green
I like the composition of this photograph. At first there is just a field of green, then the Katydid picked out against the leaves, then the gap in leaves and the insect staring into the beyond, one antennae reaching down into the void. Is it going to jump? (Well, it is a Katydid.) Is it going to jump before I can snap the photo (luckily no).
Bummer
I thought we were going to have a front row seat for metamorphosis; I found a caterpillar crawling up a stem of our Gregg’s Mist flowers. These plants are in the front flower bed and we pass them daily.
I’m not sure if the location was bad, or the insect genetics didn’t read right, or if something knocked off the forming chrysalis, but it fell off the stem before the shell hardened. Bummer.
Critters and Craft 