started with finding this 'mom' raccoon in our garden the other morning. She was accompanied by 3 young ones. Raccoon's aren't unusual in our area, but seeing them in daylight is. She was busy digging up the stashes of seed that the little Douglas Squirrel have been burying all over the place.
and then speaking of squirrels, for a year or so we hadn't seen any squirrel of any sort, which was most unusual, but finally this fall, the native Douglas Squirrel have returned, then yesterday....
this large, black coloured Gray Squirrel showed up in our yard. Although we occasionally see them across the river at Kilby, it has been at least 10 years since one has been here in our area. I'm not sure if that is good or bad! It is very shy and doesn't seem to be impacting the little squirrels at all.
Then to finish the unusual
....walking across the grasslands today I spotted this....turns out it is an American Bullfrog. Not a species to get excited about as they are invasive, but I was shocked to see a frog out and about the middle of December!
What about birds....well
Bald Eagles are still around although one wonders for how long as the water levels continue to drop so the food supply must be getting scarce. This trio were battling over a single carcass over at the log bay yesterday.
There have been several Great Blue Heron around, like this trio this afternoon.
over at Harrison Bay the size of this flock of Ring-neck Ducks continues to amaze, this is only a small portion of it. Have never seen so many together.
and speaking of large numbers, it seems every year we have more and more Anna's Hummingbirds. This little guy was in our yard, while a neighbour with multiple feeders will have several dozen visiting.
Oh and speaking of visiting....we've had a couple of male Evening Grosbeak, haven't managed a picture yet.
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