It was raining yesterday, and again early this morning, but not enough to discourage a small parade of wildlife from coming to my front yard. The rain actually makes the pictures look kind of magical. I can hardly wait until it snows!
I am still having some operator error with the camera. I need to put the food back a little farther to avoid glare, and I also need to figure out how to turn off the date-time and I apparently have managed to get AM and PM confused. There is a learning curve!
I have already learned one thing with the camera trap -- blue jays like kibble dog food! This fellow was banging down a whole piece of Purina, never mind the sunflower seeds all around him. Blue Jays are very aggressive birds, but quite lovely I think.
Here's my friend, the raccoon. I have a small parade of raccoons that have come to the yard over the years, and I think they are less territorial than the fox are.
From display behavior on another photograph, I this raccoon may have met the fox at the feeder -- the clock times also suggests this was happening. The fox seems to have come, departed, and come back again, with the raccoon in the middle part of the visits.
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Thanks to Chris for photoshopping the date out
of one of the fox pics, and making it clearer too!
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3 comments:
You would think that the fox, raccoon, and squirrel would be a bit more aware that certain death lurks just behind your back door! The squirrels in my yard don't venture past 10' of any one tree trunk nowadays due to a very fast and determined JRT.
These critters are not really too suicidal -- the dogs are never in the front yard, and are taken in during the night as well, so they can come and go pretty much without worry.
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Great picture of the blue jay! I'm really surprised at the neat poses you are getting from the camera trap.
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