Bark cleanely off branches

Merle, two comments: First, I believe many of the branches I see stripped in our back yard (the last week) and in the ravine behind our house were live. They will now die. Second, I will stop feeding the squirrels.

Hans L
 
:) , But there so cute.......

Before I met my wife she not only fed birds, and was robbed of pounds and pounds of black oil sunflower seed by squirrels, but she fed deer too. One time a neighbor who was a hunter saw a big buck intently focused on her through a plate glass window. He asked her about that and she said, Oh yeah he's waiting for me to throw some apples out to him. He told her she had to stop because that buck was seeing her as his meal ticket and could come through that window someday.

We humans. If were not destroying the planet for greed we're killing things with "kindness".
 
Much less destruction by greed than kindness, Merle, if you ask me.

I do not feed deer; in fact, every time I see them (and that is fairly often), I open the door and make some strange noise. They stop, look at me, and then take off. And, have you noticed, there is always the "bait" ... the last deer in the row of them, staying behind for a short while until the rest are safe.
 
Huh, never really noticed that behavior. I'll pay more attention. Quail are fun to watch in general but they always have a "sentry" up high watching for danger as the flock browse for food. Wild Mustangs do similarly.
 
Never saw a quail here, but once I threw out a sack of peanuts that the birds refused to eat, and a few days later we had 25 female turkeys in our yard, and a morning two days later 32.

Some interesting observations: mourning doves lunge at bluejays, who then retreat, and a bluejay clings to the cage with peanuts, and a tit flies straight towards the cage ... and the bluejay flies away.
 
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