Some photos my husband got this morning.
He’s been coming back every morning, lately.
Then there is our special “bird.”
We had a cat on the bird feeder, and the birds were on the ground! :-D
The Re-Farmer
Snow bird
The birds were quite undeterred by the snow we had recently.
Even when a lilac branch ended up on the platform feeder, they just used it to perch on. :-D
The Re-Farmer
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Winter Prep, and future plans
Well, I’m certainly glad that yesterday was a good day, weather wise, because today certainly wasn’t!
Yesterday had warmed up quite a bit, which meant the ice and snow was melting and coming off the trees with a constant rattle of ice pellets hitting the ground. When I had the chance, I checked around the yard to see if we had lost any other trees or large branches, and am happy to say that we did not. Just a few little branches.
Heading over towards the apples, I could see that, while we only saw one deer over by the bird feeder, there were certainly others we didn’t see! Continue reading
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Well, hello there!
As the snow fell, it accumulated on the hanging feeder – but just on one side! Which meant we got to see more of them on this side.
I’m not entirely sure what bird this is. It was among the juncos, and there seemed to be just the one.
The Re-Farmer
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So who is this?
So this guy apparently has never been seen by anyone since we’ve been here. No clue where he / she comes from but he / she is a little jumpy…
I readjusted the resting areas a little bit to accommodate the new, large cat :D
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Little Ball of Floof
Here are some of the photos I was able to get of The Outsider this morning, after the deer left.
Those incredible eyes!
He is getting more comfortable with my husband – more so than some of our own kittens.
I don’t know where he came from, but I’m glad to see he’s making himself at home with us.
He’s the only long haired cat hanging around. We thought he was from my brother’s place, which is the closest occupied home to us. My brother’s dog has started to visit more often, and he loves the cats. Most of our own have started to get used to him, but this kitten took right off as soon as he came near. There was no familiarity there at all.
Oh, what an adorable little floof!
We have been finding ways to prop the doors into the sun room so that the cats can get it, but still keep most of the weather out. If it works, we’ll start keeping their food and water in there, instead of outside, this winter. I even found an old dog food-and-water bowl that we can use for the water, as the containers we used last year should probably be thrown out. The cardboard from a flat of drink cans serves for the dry cat food, and is large enough for pretty much all of them to eat at the same time.
We are such sucks. :-D
The Re-Farmer
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A Deer Returns!
Note: I’m trying something different with my photos this time. We’re close to our storage limit on our free WordPress account. I don’t want to reduce the number of photos we post, and we’re not in a position to upgrade yet, so we now have a Flickr account and I am going to try embedding the images. Please let us know in the comments, if you are having any problems with the images loading, etc. Thanks!
My darling husband has taken on the morning feeding of the critters. With the bird feeder, this includes scattering seed on the ground for those birds that prefer feeding that way, and for any deer that happen by. We’ve seen the odd deer, but they haven’t really hung around.
Well, this morning, one did!!!
He’s a young one, and I’m sure he is one of the little ones that visited us in the winter. There’s something about that swoopy snout that I recognize.
Just look at those little antlers! :-D
Getting the photos was a bit of a challenge for two reasons. One, we keep the telephoto lens on the camera (for those new to this blog, we keep a Nikon D80 on a tripod in our living room window permanently, to photograph the wildlife out our living room window). The deer was almost too close to the house for the lens!
He looks like he’s laughing at us, in this next one!
The other challenge is reflections on the window from inside. At the time I was taking these photos, I had to contend with reflections of my avocado on the glass. :-D
If it seems like he’s looking at something specific in some of these photos, that’s because he is …
Sometimes, it was us in the window.
Most of the time, it was…
… Doom Guy!
I wasn’t able to get a photo of it, but at one point, they were nose to nose! So adorable!!
He was quite attentive to all the noises around him, but not at all skittish. Which is good, because it’s warming up today, and after all the snow yesterday, it’s falling off the trees with clumps. We are hearing “phwomph” noises all over.
Also; avocado tree reflections. :-D
Then we got another curious kitten!
In this photo, the deer had moved to the far side of the bird feeder, and The Outsider was on this side, watching him, while Doom Guy was on the other side of the feeder base, though he had left by the time this photo was taken.
I’m so happy to see deer back again!
I also managed to get some really fantastic pictures of The Outsider after the deer left. Those will get their own post, next. :-D
The Re-Farmer
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Well look who just showed up?
Suddenly, I’m quite happy with the fact that I braved nasty, nasty cold with toes to lay down deer feed.
:p
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Winter is here…
So we got a bit of snow yesterday, and it was essentially a catastrophe. At least in that it was unexpected, early, and it manage knock out the power for a few hours.
Now I love winter, don’t get me wrong… It’s my favorite season, and it’s absolutely beautiful to boot. It seems however that no matter how prepared or unprepared we are for snow in Manitoba, we are at the mercy of a somewhat flaky power grid. I think the fact that we are in a very, very rural environment does not promote the forward-thinking required by our local government to ensure that we have redundancy in our electrical system.
I believe I will start looking for an alternate power source ( either a generator or UPS) to ensure that the next time the grid gives out, our power doesn’t.
But it *is*pretty out there :)
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Snow Apples
These little ornamental apples just don’t seem to drop!
The birds and deer don’t seem interested in them, either.
The Re-Farmer
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