My avatar/icon is a sweet little Douglas squirrel that was frequenting my bird-squirrel feeder. The Douglas squirrels are native to the Pacific Northwest but few people have seen them especially at a backyard feeder! We get our usual grays and they are adorable too ( Read more... )

Every weekend we drive through the business park where Scott's office is located to feed carrots to the feral rabbits. The business park is also a wildlife preserve and a lot of times we can see some awesome birdies or critters like beavers.
Today this heron was sitting on a light pole and we drove up under him and he posed for us! :-)

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It has been very frustrating having my laptop come down with the "Windows anti virus pro" virus, in fact it has crippled my poor machine! I took it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy to have the virus removed and they asked, "Is there anything you want to save, like photos and music?" Well, of course I want to save those things! "Oh, that will be ( Read more... )

A Downy Woodpecker gurl came to the feeder today, this is the first one I have spotted here.
She was very cute but wouldn't hold still enough for me to get a nice clear photo.

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Sitting by the Stillwater River..... which wasn't so still!


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The business park bunnies are having litters like crazy, it is so frustrating to see so much cuteness, and know that very few will make it to adolescence. As I have said in the past we have contacted all the rescue groups but there are just too many bunnies for them to take ( Read more... )

Not sure what this was all about but I thought of you! :-)


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Since we really had no idea what kinds of flowers were planted by the previous owner of our house it is a nice surprise when they started blooming this spring. Most of the plants are bee and butterfly magnets which makes them even better ( Read more... )

Coming home from Seattle today had to take this shot, Mt. Rainer is so awesome it doesn't even look real.


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Up the road from us is a cell phone tower, not very pretty but the trees usually hide it. Since the trees have been bare for the winter we can see the top of the tower and were suprised to see a HUGE nest up there ( Read more... )