Winter Wild Life in Our Yard

Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:17 pm

My in laws are here and they LOVE to feed the birds and the squirrels. We get A LOT of wildlife while they are here. The bird and squirrel feeders are always loaded with bread, seed and fat balls they make.

Today what should be a skinny red squirrel was busy filling his face for over an hour. He is a rolly polly thing that is for sure. He managed to eat enough of the slice of bread so that he could carry up a nearly by birch tree. He dropped it and had to fight for it. two blue jays swooped in and tried to get it away from him. I have named the squirrel Sammy. Sammy won the bread and scurried across the yard and up another tree.

Here is one of the many, piggy Bluejays the come to the many feeders we have filled this time of the year.

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glendann wrote on Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:26 pm:

Gardenmama that would have been fun to watch the fight over the sliced of bread.The Blue is very busy gr\etting his food too.

Droopy wrote on Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:33 pm:

Your squirrel is adorable, wish I had one too! We feed the birds here, but with that big, hunting tomcat of ours I feel it's kind of entrapment. *lol*

eileen wrote on Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:17 pm:

Your red squirrels are so different from our Scottish ones but still as cute. We don't have jays in this part of Scotland but magpies try to steal from the squirrels in our garden. Thank you for letting us see your photographs - they are lovely.

Sjoerd wrote on Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:39 pm:

Hiyah Michelle,
It's good to see these fotos. How nice that you can get these critters in your yard. I can well imagine that you folks could sit and observe these for hours at a time.