Critter of the Day: female pine grosbeak

February 26, 2019February 23, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

A few last photos from January; a lovely lady grosbeak!

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Critter of the Day: silly deer!

February 24, 2019February 23, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

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!

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I so love catching silly deer faces! :-D

Critter(s) of the Day: redpolls

February 23, 2019February 13, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

A few last photos from January.

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These tiny redpolls are not at all intimidated by the weather!

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Nor are they intimidated by other birds kicking up snow in their faces! LOL

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Critter(s) of the Day: what a crowd!

February 21, 2019February 13, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

Another photo from January.

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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!

Critter of the Day: deer friends

February 19, 2019February 13, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 2 Comments

More photos from January.

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Their fur has gotten so very thick!

Critter of the Day: going nutty

February 18, 2019February 13, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 4 Comments

More photos going back to January.

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A nutty little upside down nuthatch. :-)

Critter of the Day: looking deer

February 16, 2019February 13, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 3 Comments

More photos going back to January.

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Here’s looking at you, Deer!

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Those eyes are just amazing.

Critter of the Day: sharing space

February 15, 2019February 13, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

Some more photos from January.

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I don’t really think of the grosbeaks as a particularly large bird, compared to some of the others around, but they sure look pretty big when with those little redpolls! :-)

Critter of the Day: hanging in there

February 14, 2019January 18, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 1 Comment

Redpolls in the lilac bush.

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As high as they can go!

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Oh, deer! What a show!

February 13, 2019 / Re-Farmer / 3 Comments

We got visited by a whole bunch of deer this morning!

This is some of them…

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We had 7 in total. I was able to get some video.

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