Dramatic pose.
It was warm enough to spend a couple hours outside. The buns were ecstatic. Unfortunately I didn’t get any good pictures of the black bunny this time.
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Wonderful framing of the subject in that photo!
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Is that a bananaquit?
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Thanks. Obrigado.
No, it was a Kiskadee. There were hummingbirds, bananaquits, sayaca tanagers and even ruddy ground doves hanging on the same tree. The Kiskadee tried to take a break hanging on the branches. But the humming birds attacked him and he had to flee to another tree.
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That one looks like the right kind of trouble…assuming you like getting woken up at 2 AM by random crazy cat activity. 
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We have a new kitty, Gizmo. MiL wanted a cat for her, so we got him from a family friend. So far, she has her wish – he practically lives on her bed.
He’s a floof monster.
I was surprised that our boy, Petey, is being a really good uncle (he tends to be a jerk to other cats). Gizmo and Petey play all day long – for the most part, Petey is gentle.
That puts us at our house max – 6 cats!
(too bad because there is a new sweet kitty hanging around - I might have found the owner, but haven’t gotten a reply from them)
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I’m in love with Gizmo already!
Petey looks trepidatious, but mindful. A good combo for a guardian!
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Aaaaaaaaahh!
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Those are two handsome dudes! 
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Oooh🥰 one of my favorite guilty pleasures when traveling is to visit a cat cafe and get my kitty fix (we don’t have any locally, nor need them, normally).
Sometimes they’ve been kind of…weird, but the one from this pic looks nice! I wants to skritch the head!
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@knoxblox
“Don’t leave me”?!!?
We just foster failed Bitey Kitten into the household - no!
@IronEdithKidd
He was actually a little shy at first, but he warmed up quickly. He seemed to be a sensible tabby, unlike the “Jort”-adjacent orange marmalade beastie in the second kitty room.
@ClutchLinkey
This was my first cat cafe experience. It’s in NYC, Lower East Side, and seems to be quite nice. Your idea to visit cat cafes while traveling is brilliant.
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She left us a few years ago. We found her and her sister on the side of the road when they were just weeks old.
It popped up in my news feed today.
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Crews, with the help of a herd of voracious goats, will dig up 9 acres of grass and invasive buckthorn around Maplewood City Hall with plans to transform the campus into something a bit more wild and beautiful.
They’re partnering with the St. Paul-based nonprofit Great River Greening to add more native grassland habitat on city-owned land.
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Crews will start work at City Hall this spring. The plan is to bring in goats to eat as much of the buckthorn as possible."It’s a showy and charismatic species to have conversations around: ‘What are these goats doing and why are they doing it?’ " Tucker [Becca Tucker, Twin Cities program manager at Great River Greening] said.
The goats can also help with planting too, driving the seeds into the ground with their hooves.
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Goats! They’re so much fun to watch work. I loved seeing the goats that were busy cleaning up invasive growth on the river bluffs at my favorite regional park a few years ago.
I’m not sure where the photo that accompanies this article was taken, but there are a lot of goats in the picture 
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Sure hope the goats were eating at a field of native vegetation the previous day, to speed along the native planting and fertilizing efforts. 
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