Street Prophets Friday: Warsaw University Botanical Garden (photo diary/open...
Greetings and welcome, my nearly hairless darlings. This week I've got photos from May 1st and the last day of my trip with Mrs the Werelynx to Warsaw, Poland.As always, when I do my Friday open-thread...
View ArticleTwo Squirrels and a Chickadee
Something of a feel-good post amidst the doomscrolling. A couple of squirrels and a Carolina chickadee. Something other than fireworks for the 4th! From Huntsville AL. The heat doesn’t seem to bother...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Squirrel Appreciation
cute as heckathleticfriendlytalentedhelpfulgood at planting new forests by burying their hoards and then forgetting where they put them.A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦Do not troll the...
View ArticleCute Little Critters or Cold-Blooded Killers -- the Secret Lives of...
For those of us who enjoy the antics of these charming little rodents cavorting in our parks and backyards, this recent study by UC-Davis and Univ of Wis-Eau Claire (and just published in the Journal...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Getting Squirelly
gonna do some weight liftingA gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul.Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Looking out the Window on a Winter’s Day.
January 14 was an indoor day. We had near blizzard conditions the day before and into the morning on Sunday. We were happy to be inside, and that the power had been restored late Saturday night.The...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Grab Some Nuts
Nuts and seeds. Go ahead, stuff them in, they are good for you.ooh, fancy!maybe some leafy greens?fruit is good too.PWBPeeps is a group that posts a daily diary and nightly open thread for animal...
View ArticleGardening with a Purpose - Water for Wildlife
It had been a cool, wet spring in the Northwest where I live, with constant rain and some flooding. But this past week the summer dry season arrived with a vengeance in the form off a record-popping...
View ArticleWould-be Speaker desperately seeking more nuts
My wife and I do wildlife rehab, and the above pose at left is one anyone who has raised squirrels or watched their feeders would recognize: this an utterly unready for real life mammal with a very...
View ArticleDaily Bucket: Birding at the Carbon Canyon Regional Park
When I drove down to Orange County to visit family for Thanksgiving, I blew my engine going up the notoriously long steep Grapevine Grade on Interstate 5. I ended spending an extra week with family as...
View ArticleDaily Bucket: Geological Wonders at Lassen Volcanic National Park and Environs
I always wanted to visit Mt. Lassen, the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range that runs from British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. The site of a 1915 major...
View ArticlePWB Peeps - A Squirrely Tale, Part 2
Hi, Peeps. I hope you are having a happy Monday. Today, I have asked my friend, I. M. A. Squir-Ell, to continue his story.You may recall that last week, I was telling my grandsquirrels (and you) the...
View ArticlePWB Peeps - A Squirrely Tale, Part 1
Monday greetings to you, Peeps. Today’s true story was told to me by an old and wise bushy-tailed rodent by the name of I. M. A. Squir-Ell. I will pass off the telling to him, as he told it to his...
View ArticlePWB Peeps - Drama on the Deck
“Mom, it’s story time.” Allen and Kiki rang out in a purry chorus.Still half asleep, I padded over to the bookshelf for our copy of Caterly Tales. “How about a poem today?”“No, this one is about a...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Poetry of Emerson
The Mountain and the Squirrel, by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe mountain and the squirrel had a quarrel;And the former called the latter “Little Prig”.name-calling, is it?Bun replied, “You are doubtless very...
View ArticleHappy Squirrel Appreciation Day! Raising baby squirrels
For most folks squirrels are just there. A fleeting presence seen from the corner of the eye, or spotted balanced on a branch or power line, watching, giving you the old prayer paws as they perhaps...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Squirrel Appreciation Day
Adorable nuisances that they are, do squirrels deserve to be appreciated?Well, yes. They play important roles in our ecosystems.They are forest gardeners. By caching the nuts and seeds that they...
View ArticleTop Comments: Squirrel Parkour!
Scientists at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of California at Berkeley have studied how squirrels jump from branch to branch, traveling through the understory of a forest. How...
View ArticlePWB Peeps Open Thread: Squirrel!
Sometimes it is really hard to concentrate. I just get going on… SQUIRREL!and then I start some other task...SQUIRREL!Three things going at once, humming right along...SQUIRREL!It’s just hopeless. The...
View ArticleA Feel Good Ivermectin Story
In the Summer of 2012 I became friends with a squirrel. Specifically what most folks call a Brown Squirrel but what is technically a Red Fox squirrel. And no, Red Fox squirrels do not record filthy...
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