Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Critters, their homes and then there's Roger

 Well, on my trail walk today I decided to take as many pictures I could of critters and some of their homes
 This Blue Jay (yes there is a Blue Jay in this tree) wouldn't sit long enough for me to take a good picture of him. He would hop from tree to tree, teasing me.  Sitting still until I tried to focus.  Then he would jump to another tree.

A squirrel lives here. I saw several squirrels but I cannot prove it with this blog.  
 Beautiful. I am so in love with this trail and fall
  At first I thought it was a bee hive. But I'm not sure?
 I think this is the opening to a fox den.  A few months back, before I brought my camera with on my walks, I saw a fox.  He laid right in front of this hole.  Would I lie to you? :)
 This little guy actually wanted his picture taken.
 I think this heron is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.  I think he is afraid to fly away. He hasn't moved from this spot in about a week. Don't believe me?  Just ask Rachelle.

 Rachel wanted her picture taken also.  Isn't she cute.
 Two eagles. Their home is near by
 I did see one more critter on the trail tonight.  But he was to quick for me. His name is Roger.  I didn't recognize him at first for all those bikers with helmets and those spandex bike clothes, well, they all look alike to me. 
"Good Night Moon"

7 comments:

Rachelle said...

Look at that, you have 5 followers right off the bat. Good for you. Love this set of pictures! You surprised me with the last pic of Good Night Moon. That is a beautiful picture and you have reminded me how I used to read that book to my long ago 'little' ones. And, yes, I can testify that the blue heron has been sitting in the same spot for awhile now. Barb... I LOVE your blog!! You Go Girl.

barb meuers said...

Thank you Rachelle. As you might have figured out, i like doing it. Did you walk on the trail today??????:

Rachelle said...

Yes, I did!! I forced poor Derrick to join me and he wasn't happy to leave his work in the basement, but I wanted him to SEE it and experience it just once. I won't bug him again. He is hurting tonight from that long walk, but I hope it inspires him to walk on it in the future. How funny that you saw Roger. I've been looking for him each time, but never see him. I love the cute chipmunk picture!

Michael said...

Where's Roger? Where's Roger? Hey, there his is...oops, nope, that wasn't him...or was it. Roger. Rooooooogeeeeer. Over.

Basque-Land said...

Hmmmmm. That looks like a Hornet's nest in that tree. We had one in our shed that looked like that. One time when I was on a walk in Los Banos, CA, I ran into a fox hole like that and out popped a fox and we were both stunned! Nice pictorial.

Rachelle said...

And what I really want to know is... did you ever capture a picture of that fast critter named Roger? Better keep trying because that would be a good post for a blog.

Rachelle said...

Speaking of Roger... I noticed that he immediately became a follower of your blog, but has never become a follower of mine. I emailed him and said, "what the heck?" because that's not very nice. Lo & behold, he now became a follower of mine. It seems that you have followers signing up left & right and I have to coerce people. What is wrong with this picture?? Ha!