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!
@anon67050589 , 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 Iâll be more tolerant.
Bonanza Jellybean?!
naw, she didnât have to feed them peyote to make them stay!
(you know how much I love Tom Robbins! so, yeah, I got the reference)
Seven cardinals around the bird feeder. I wonder if theyâre getting ready to elect a new pope?
They got joined by three more a minute later but itâs getting too dark now.
Leo unfortunately must have had a heart attack and suddenly died a couple months ago. We miss that sweetie very much â we only had him ~9 months.
However, this guy started hanging around our place about a month ago and I finally nabbed him 2 days ago:
Came across a skunk in the middle of the night during a walk last night.
Disappointed. No PepĂ© Le Pew hopsâŠ
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 âhi Mr Stinkyâ â so, of course, I do that every time I see them out there.
Iâm sorry to hear about Leo. 
You seem to be a very effective cat magnet, though! 
Pretty sure there are cat hobo marks on the curb
Its an area with a lot of dogs and people around. I would suspect the little critter was trying to get away as fast as possible.
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.
Thank you, thank you. My wife loves it.
Very nice!
Now the wife is gonna want me to build one of thoseâŠ
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 sheâs been around for several years and she always has a warm place to stay. Sheâs also been spayed and had her shots.
When I was a child I had three consecutive white rats, all named George. The first was a male and the following two werenât. I had zero imagination.
Doesnât surprise me that Leo, Jr. is friendly. Love the orange tabby kitties! 
