So based on the amount of food that’s been disappearing overnight, we’ve been fairly sure that we had “other” visitors apart from the cats. As I was getting ready to go and cuddle with them, I took a quick look outside and thought better of it…
I have to admit that the only thing that’s keeping me from going out there and trying to pet it, is common sense.
While getting photos of the birds, I saw Jim at the base of the planter and started taking pictures of him, as well.
Then The Outsider came through from the other side and posed!
It looks like The Outsider has moved right in with our cats. It seems a bit odd that a lone kitten would show up like this. It may be from a neighboring farm, but in that case, I would expect it to go home and only show up once in a while. Alternatively, he may have been abandoned; something that still happens, unfortunately.
Whatever the reason, we are happy to have him, and so are the other kittens!
Then we have our other visitors. Like this guy.
It seems to now be a pretty sure thing that this is “dad cat”, that the girls would sometimes see while raking the yard. We’d never really seen his face before, so no one recognized him when he showed up in the sun room a while back. He’s coming closer to the house more often, and not just to quickly grab some food, and we’ve been able to get a better look at him and his rather distinctive face markings!
There is a grey cat that also comes around. The grey and Dad Cat got into a big and nasty fight under our living room window a few days back.
I would not be surprised if we find ourselves with more kittens in the not too distant future. :-/
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Corvo has made climbing up into the bird feeder a regular thing now, it seems.
Which has made for some great photo opportunities, from our living room window.
What a beautiful cat he’s growing up to be!
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So the good news is that most of the kittens are comfortable enough with me at this point that they will sit there and eat while I’m still rummaging around; they were pretty much exactly like this while I was opening up a new bag of food for them.
… the bad news is that they seem to now treat the sunroom as their own very large personal thump dump area. I found no less than three landmines this morning.
So it looks like corvo has discover that hunting for Birds is a fair bit easier right after I feed them. This is the second or third time now that he’s taken up residence on the bird feeder and tried to take swipes at whatever birds come around.
And they do come around, flaring at him and otherwise showing there displeasure at his taking over their Roost.
… Funny as hell.
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
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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
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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
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.
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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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