Northern Flicker Fledgling

 On this date in 2014 we found a Northern Flicker fledgling in Grand Teton National Park...

No adults brought food while we were watching so the young one used its retractable tongue to pick off any insects that came within range...

Grand Teton rarely disappoints whether one is seeking fabulous scenery or wildlife...

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Bluebirds Fledge in Our Yard

 

Greetings one and all. Yesterday we were treated to front row seats as the bluebird chicks that were hatched in our feeder fledged...

This old feeder has seen many years of use. This year a pair of bluebirds decided that it was just right for their brood...

First one fledging came out and surveyed the world for the first time. It wasn't long before the adults were kept busy bringing food...

One of the first out had to stand by while the adults fed the others still in the nest...

It didn't seem very happy about it, either...

Eventually, all of the little one departed...

Before the last one was out english sparrows were sizing up the feeder...

Luckily, the sparrows did not evict the bluebirds. Something they are well know for.

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What's In YOUR Backyard?

 Greetings, and thank you for visiting my blog. I have been negligent about up-dating it lately. I will try to do better in the future.

Like many folks, I am curious about the wildlife that visits our yard at night, and sometimes during the day. I started remotely photographing our visitors with two trail cameras about six years ago...

I increased the number of cameras over the years, always buying the least expensive trail cameras available. I thought I would share some of the results.

Because we maintain bird feeders we get a lot of squirrels...

This grey squirrel does not want a blue jay intruding on it's territory...

I have discovered a number of unknown cats passing through, both day and night...

We regularly are visited by skunks...

and racoons...

sometimes they are together...

We have deer visiting frequently...

 

During the mating season bucks become more common...

This one created a scrape

There was a piebald in the yard once...

More than one groundhog lives here...

We have nightly visits from a red fox...

Perhaps looking for a rabbit dinner...

We enjoy the wild turkeys when they come around...

In the next photo a gobbler strolls down the path...

But the hen ignores him...

So he retraces his route following the hen...

Our most exotic visitors are the coyotes...

I almost forgot the mink...

We live in a sub-division about equal distance from Baltimore, Maryland and Washington D.C. Who knows what might be in your yard?

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