Cardinal and Cactus Wren
(crap digital zoom)
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Every time someone goes to the bathroom, she’s levitated herself next to the sink, waiting for us to turn it on for a drink.
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If they’re not drinking out of the toilet, I count that as a win. 
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A long-ago girlfriend of mine kept about a dozen goats at her place up in Bakersfield. First time in her back yard they all came up and surrounded me… all wanting to be petted and scratched. They really penned me in!
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Oriole (crap phone zoom, just for the color):
Nature Red…
Cooper’s Hawk drowning a ground squirrel.
She caught it, then awkwardly worked it over to the water dish and held its head under the water until it stopped squirming, then started for what my parents refer to as The Plucking Tree. But it turned out to not be dead, so she carried it back and held it for longer.
We had heard of this behavior before, but had never witnessed it.
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I have to turn on the second sink while brushing my teeth. The cat won’t be finished by the time I need to spit.
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Small downy woodpecker, not in the least bit bothered by my presence. I was standing only six feet away.
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An hummingbird keeping the social distance.
I wish I know how to work with post-processing. I am very lame…
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Meet Murder Cat.
He was abandoned by the awful people who rented the house across the street for a while. While he was their cat, he was as unfriendly and unpleasant as they were. The neighboring four houses here pitched in, getting him vaccinated and neutered, feeding him through the winter, etc. He’s a very competent cat, though, and as he started getting friendlier, he also started sharing his bounty. I regularly find disassembled rodents around, hence his nickname. Happily, the new tenant has pretty much adopted him, but he still likes my front porch.
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I don’t know what to say…your Maine Coon was a very big boy. 
And also - belly spots!! 
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If he is an outdoor kitty, whoever takes him in for his rabies shot next might ask the vet about clipping his ear to show he’s been vaccinated. It’s something animal control looks for around here. If the kitty has the ear tip cut off, they know it has been neutered and has a rabies vaccine. They will rarely attempt to catch it as a result. We had a horrible neighbor call animal control claiming the feral cat who lived near the building “attacked” their child. It was a lie. The cat was super shy, the nighbor was pissed we were helping the cat. we’d trapped the cat and her kittens a few months earlier. When the kittens were weaned, we had the local humane society fix her and give her the shots. Animal control dismissed the complaint after seeing she had the ear tip cut off- she can’t have rabies- and that the cat was shy. Told us that without the ear clip, they would have had to bring her in and she would probably die.
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I was told, rather recently, that the clipped or notched ear thing was essentially an urban legend. (It came up because the cat to the left of this post got his ear notched his very first day in this household, when he learned why Mr. Bits has the nickname Dexter. It was, somewhat surprisingly, kinda hilarious.)
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Nope, totally true.
Friends have an indoor/outdoor cat who became a lot more outdoor after they brought a terrifying shrieking crawling mini-human home.
One day he comes home with a chunk missing out of his ear, looking very sorry for himself: someone in the neighborhood thought he was feral and took him in. I guess on the plus side you can’t get fixed twice…
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Wow. I hope that goes the way of declawing pretty soon.
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