We've had our backyard feeding station set up for a couple weeks now. Our first diners during the daytime have been bluejays...lots and lots of bluejays! I don't know if they are staying for the winter or just passing through. There are so many of them that they even keep the crows away!
But it's at night that things get interesting. At first it was just all of the wind gusts blowing grasses and things that set off the motion lights outside. Now in the last week there have been actual animal eaters causing the lights to go on.
These are two of the foxes that we've seen around here. Our neighbor calls them cross foxes because they are gray with some red fur, too. There are two here...one is hiding.
Not the sharpest pictures at night in low-ish light. There's the second fox.
We first saw this big guy a couple weeks ago, just before hunting season. And seeing him back a couple nights ago shows he made it through this year's "10 days of hunting." He looks pretty big here but that other one was really very small, maybe from this summer's fawns.
He looks pretty healthy there.
Leann is home from Rochester now, it was a beautiful day, so we snowshoed up to the meadow to get our two Christmas trees--one for inside the house and a little one for the front porch.
We had tentatively picked this one a couple weeks ago, but there are always second thoughts when it comes time to cut it down. We almost picked the white pine next to this one. It was REALLY wide but needed a little more height. So back into the pot for another year! That's Leann peeking through the branches.
We tied two sleds together to have something long enough to haul them back up to the house. That little "Charlie Brown tree" laying on top is the one destined for the front porch. It was trying to grow in the shadows of some bigger trees, so it was a good one to get out of the way.
Down the hill, over the creek, and up the hill over to the house.
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The foxes, the snow shoe-ing, the cutting down the tree. I wish I were there. Great post.
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