A last couple of deer photos from January.
I find it interesting, that one of them has fur that’s so much fluffier than the other.
The fluffy one looks like it’s starting to get antler nubbins.
Critter of the Day: deer pair
All Stocked up – and trying something new
One of the nice things about February being such a short month is, pay comes in a bit early. Which meant we got to do our monthly shop before we started running out of too many things!
The trip to the city wasn’t quite uneventful. Not far from our driveway, there are open fields on both sides of the road. We’ve had some very high winds for the past couple of days, but not a lot of snow, so I wasn’t expecting to hit several small drifts across the road in a row.
Then we reached the big drifts.
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Critter of the Day: female pine grosbeak
Critter of the Day: napping in the sun
A few last photos from January – this time of Rolando Moon, enjoying some sun on the platform feeder!
She looks so sweet and peaceful. You would never guess she is a mean ol’ bugger. :-D At least to other cats! She’ll take on any of the big toms, and win, no problem!
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Mystery solved
I’m certainly glad I got the snow blowing around the house when I did! A bitter wind has reached us. When checking the weather early this morning, the temperature was a very mild -9C, but the wind chill was -32C!!! While doing my rounds, sections of the paths I’d made were already drifted over, and the deer feed I put out was soon covered as well. Most alarmingly were the sounds of creaking that I was able to narrow down to the willows in the south yard – the ones we need to cut away from the power lines.
I’m going to be very relieved, once we finally get those trees cut back!!!
Today, we even got severe weather warnings, due to expected wind chills tonight reaching -40C to -43C. The actual temperatures are only supposed to drop to about -28C tonight.
I’m really looking forward to this winter being over.
While we’ve been happily staying indoors and out of the wind, we had a bit of a mystery that we weren’t sure was even a mystery, solved!
We have another outside cat.
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Critter of the Day: silly deer!
I thought I was all caught up with the January photos, but when I uploaded the card from DSLR, I found more! So there will be a few more January Critter of the Days. :-)
First up!
Deer bleps!
I so love catching silly deer faces! :-D
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Critter(s) of the Day: redpolls
A few last photos from January.
These tiny redpolls are not at all intimidated by the weather!
Nor are they intimidated by other birds kicking up snow in their faces! LOL
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Paths
Today, I finally was able to get outside and use the new electric snow blower around the house. I really wanted to get it done while the weather was still good; we’re supposed to start getting cold again in a couple of days. Nothing like the bitter cold we had before, but enough that I don’t want to be outside for 2 hours, or be trying to use the snow blower in high winds.
What a fantastic little thing Spewie is!
Also, we can now use the fire pit, if we want to. :-D
Photo heavy post ahead! :-D
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Critter of the Day: orange butt
Photo from January.
Not sure if that’s Jim or Bob, showing off his fuzzy orange butt at us. :-D
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Critter(s) of the Day: what a crowd!
Another photo from January.
Just a small area showing the mass of redpolls we get at times. Sometimes there will be pine grosbeaks, chickadees and blue jays with them, but none in such crowds!
The Re-Farmer 