Featured Oddities

We feed the birds and the hawks come to prey on them. Easy pickings I guess. More often than not, they miss when they try to get one but are successful occasionally. We have lots of squirrels too but they must be too big for the hawks. Don't think I have ever even seen them try to go after one.

 

I feel the same way about cooking Baby Carrots ........

 

I feed my squirrels.......but a few years back......there was a killer cat who lurked in the underbrush..... got two or more them.
Go out in the yard to find a tail.....skull.....couple of feet.....and a stomach.....not much else............ it was disconcerting.....!

 

Hawks take squirrels, I have photos of one feasting on a squirrel. Didn't think it was a good idea to post it

 

There's a killer grey squirrel around here. Saw one once carrying off a chipmunk, and another time a black squirrel.

 

Woodchuck trophy. He dug too many holes under my flowerbeds.

 

Good kitty! I've seen more hawks here in recent years. This fall there were fewer squirrels and the chipmunk hoards had vanished. I've also seen two bobcats this year. If one isn't having fast food for lunch I bet the other is.

Then there are the coyotes who've moved into the neighborhood.

 

These guys have been hanging out in my bookcases for years. We call them the "The Talking Heads".

 

One of the best pets my Lady ever had-a pygmy rabbit,tiny,the runt of the litter.Little fellow came to a sad end because of her granny's dog.
....they are tasty,but I've given them up in honor of her lost little chap-'Chopin'.

 

I LOVE that !

 

I keep forgetting what these are called but whenever I go to the Vermillion river I look for them on the banks. I haven't found one in awhile but they appear mostly after a heavy flood, then everybody runs down there to scour the shoreline looking for them.

 

What are they ????

 

Petoskey stones?

 

Septarian nodules - also known as Turtle rocks.

 

50 million yr old fossilized mud bubbles named after Septarian Petoskey- who'd think it possible ?

 

Thanks, inh! I didn't know the jug had an official name. He does some crazy folk art pieces.

Never knew there was such a thing as fossilized mud bubbles either. Seems the older I get, the less I know.

 

Years ago, I was a very rural farm auction where in addition to household and collectible items, they sold livestock. I bid and won a crate full of rabbits because the person who started the bidding was buying them to feed his snake. I neither wanted nor needed a bunch of rabbits but I couldn't let them be snake food.

 

Just today as I was walking to my car, I noticed an odd thing on the payement.
Looked like the remains of a baby something.. just the tail. I think it was a baby squirrel. Ugh.

We have many stray cats here and many squirrels so perhaps they got to it.

 

I've seen a bobcat near my house three times in the last week. Does she count as a stray cat? Not sure I'd want to try to socialize her!