We have a few bluejays that steal the almonds my wife puts out for the squirrels, it’s amazing watching them swallow those things whole. The same bluejay has been visiting our yard for the third year, we know it’s the same one because it’s missing a foot. That guy can balance on one leg and put away the nuts like nobody’s business.
This is not the one footed guy but it is one of the ones that steals almonds. I made a bunch of those picnic tables, makes for cute photos sometimes.
love the little picnic table! very pretty woodpecker. looks like the red-bellied woodpecker we have in our yard. very distinctive call, like chop! chop! chop! they DNGAF and chase the bluejays - twice their size - away from the feeders!
@chgoliz , mum had sandhill cranes at her place up in Pasco that stayed year-round. I may have posted this before, but here they are, strolling up to the house:
The one in our yard was very annoying in the spring. One of the only backyard visitors I wished into the cornfield but, according to the googles, it was just trying to attract a mate. After a few weeks the pecking stopped so next year I’ll be more tolerant.
No name yet – I just call him Leo Jr (or screamie). He is very talkative.
He is super sweet. I haven’t seen any lost pets posted on the usual sites, but he did have a flea collar on him when he first showed up. We’ll have the vet scan him for a chip when he goes in for a check-up and to get neutered.
I gave him a bath last night and he was really good (much better than any of our boys) – was probably just happy getting attention.
While I was drying him off, I thought he farted (he did while I was bathing him), however it was a rather long bout of diarrhea… Luckily I was able to keep it confined to the towel and not on me or the bed.
The wife is excited because he seems to have a similar personality to Leo (who was her favorite cat of the past decade)
Also in cat news… We are giving our boy, Petey, away to a family friend. It’s more of a loaner – we will probably get him back in ~5 yrs when she retires. Petey needs to be an “only cat”… He’s not bad, but tends to be a bit of a bully and he and our sort-of-feral boy, BK, are mortal enemies.
Disappointed. No Pepé Le Pew hops…
The jumbo skunk that cleans up the spilled cat food on our porch, Mr Stinky, runs away doing the hops whenever I scare them by saying “hi Mr Stinky” – so, of course, I do that every time I see them out there.
Oh my gosh, thank you for this. I just fired up the Cricut and stuck this on the back door where a couple ferals come for breakfast and dinner(one of them is the mom to one we took in a few months ago after he needed surgery because something attacked him). And yes, that house is insulated with R-20+ foam and heated. And ferals in our neighborhood get trapped and spayed or neutered and released.
Very nice!
Now the wife is gonna want me to build one of those…
I just have beds/boxes/etc in the crawlspace under our house for the strays.
The bonus there is that the dirt is so dry and fine that it kills the fleas, so most of the street cats I have grabbed are usually flea free.
That one came from Amazon this year. I had built a nice four cat shelter that was also heated and insulated along with a heated feeding shelter (neighbors hate me). But we were down to two cats and the mom disappeared for almost a year so after we took in the one I donated everything to a freind that has several feral colonies they take care of. Out of the blue the mom showed back up. The price of wood was through the roof and that house was cute and only needed minor modification. So here we are.
Unfortunately the mom is way to wild to bring in the house but she’s been around for several years and she always has a warm place to stay. She’s also been spayed and had her shots.
