Ferdinand, skulking by the bird feeder.

A couple more bird pictures from February.

Some days, we would get huge crowds of birds, all at once. They’d fly in and out, en masse.

When I was taking these, it was all redpolls and pine grosbeaks. There were so many, they seemed to have driven away the chickadees and blue jays. For a while, at least.
I just wanted to share some pictures of the outside cats with you. :-)
First up, we found not-Slick in the sun room again.

That is one beat up looking cat. The expression of tragedy on his face is just too much!
Coming back from a trip to the dump this morning, I found this waiting for me.
Can you spot the kitties?

There are five cats in that picture.
When I got closer, I had to try and zoom in on Slick.

That looks like a fresh wound on his nose, next to an old scar. The fresh wound closely matches a scar not-Slick has on his nose.
Poor things!
The Re-Farmer
I was finally able to check the trail cam videos, and this is what happened while my husband and I were out.
I had quite a laugh while doing my rounds this morning!
Butterscotch, I’m happy to say, is doing much better. She eagerly joined me after I put out all the critter food and water, and went to continue my rounds. She even wanted to be picked up and carried, right away, and was busily trying to rub her face all over me.
Which I still don’t want her doing. Her eye and nose may not be leaking much anymore, but they are still a bit on the damp side. ;-)
There is one spot on my path along the spruce grove that the cats tend to catch up with me, and today, Beep Beep was eager for some attention, too. So for a while, I hat two cats on my shoulders and in my arms, trying to rub on me. No surprise that they knocked off my hat. I couldn’t pick it up until after I changed the memory card on the trail came, then got them off my shoulders.
After putting it back on, I found this.
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