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Started by Pat, March 29, 2016, 02:44:28 PM

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jackwv

Bubble, no surprise to me, but you have the eye of an artist, and not just with photos.

angelface555

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Thank you everyone for the nice comments on my part of this great state!

Bubble, your plants look very green and able to defend themselves against all comers!  :thumbup:

With cats and especially Farrah, I had to give away all my plants save a money tree and some bamboo that is high up on a shelf and blocked from several sides.

Wouldn't it be nice if it actually grew money?  ;)   

so_P_bubble

you can try printing it on your printer... :D

Mary Ann

Bubble, what a great idea.  Patricia, Kendrick has not attacked my inside plants - yet.  He does like quack grass (or crab grass?) so we've just ordered some cat grass for him.

Mary Ann

FlaJean

Nice garden, Bubble.  Do they have to be repotted as they grow?  My Christmas cactus isn’t looking so good.  Am ready to throw it out.

angelface555

Bubble and MaryAnn, I think if I started printing my own cash, I'd need to upgrade this "on sale" hp of mine  8)

I have cat grass for Farrah; I just put it out a few times a week as it ends up ragged with small pieces everywhere!

Jean, I had a Christmas cactus once in a no pet apartment, and I know it does have periods of dormancy, and you only add a little water when its dry to the touch.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/cacti-succulents/christmas-cactus/advice-for-christmas-cactus-care.htm

Mary Ann

Patricia, thanks for the info on cat grass.

Mary Ann

angelface555

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A ragtag group of photos. First is Farrah in one of her expensive beds.  Her bed in the bedroom is a folded bath towel against the wall. She had a nice bed and wasn't interested.


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angelface555

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She has to work for her meals, (She's feeling about with her paw and concentrating). And every couple of weeks I change the inside configuration because she picks the pattern up quickly!


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angelface555

A friend who lives a block east of me emailed me a photo of Daisy. This is the cow moose who spent the better part of February and March bedding down in her back yard.


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angelface555

I was visiting the sanctuary and took a couple of photos at the end of the public areas. The geese, ducks, swans, and others are out and about but no cranes nesting as yet. One of the sloughs.


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angelface555

This photo of some birch in a permafrost area had me confused. Look at the dark spot in the lower left and in the second photo. It's not really clear.


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Close up of area.


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so_P_bubble

Is that a cat?  There also seems to be 'something'  right in the middle of the previous photo, black against the trunk of a tree.  I  see two pointed ears and maybe a tail?

FlaJean, I hope they will not grow too much.  We'll see...

angelface555

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Unfortunately I was across the river and using my zoom. It probably was not a large housecat as that would quickly become dinner for something. In the refuge slash sanctuary, it could have been a bear or cub, wolf, lynx, badger, large owl or other game. All I know is I felt uneasy, saw something there and hoped the zoom would provide a later answer. The center is just different parts of the black and white of the paper birch.

I have no idea.

jackwv

Great group of photos, but Farrah was the best.

Mary Ann

Patricia, I too felt the "thing" was an animal, but, of course, could not tell what.  Such interesting scenery you have as opposed to what I have far from any wild life.

Kendrick also does not sleep in an expensive bed, but it is a $10 bed.  He has his picks of places, a scratchpad lounge, his bed, my bed, the floor, a hideabed in the lower level and a recliner.

Mary Ann

SCFSue

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Angel Face, could it be a possum?  Or perhaps you have no possums up there. 

Sue

P.S.  I dislike possums intensely.  One got into our chicken coop and killed all our remaining chickens (6 hens) and badly wounded our rooster who did his best to protect his "gals"!  At one time we had over 50 fancy hens due to our former pastor who at one time was involved in the chicken business before becoming a pastor.  Whenever he and his wife went on vacation, he'd give his fancy chickens to my hubby and then he'd never take them back!

angelface555

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Thanks, Jack, I'm sure Farrah agrees with you!

MaryAnn, Farrah also has her pick, but the box and towel are preferred. I did buy her a bed, but I think she found being wholly enclosed not to her liking. Kendrick sounds very well looked after!  Those photos are in the spring before everything greened up.

Sue, we don't have raccoons or possums. We do have badgers which have meanness and long memories or a porkypine which wouldn't be in the trees. Almost everything else is larger. I know I instinctively felt it even from across the river which is why I took the shot. I'm leaning toward lynx or black bear although I don't really know.

Mary Ann

Patricia, Kendrick likes to sleep under something.  He often is under a portable table and he likes to get under a casual chair that has a big opening underneath.  And he likes to get under the blanket on my bed, especially if I have the top turned down (he gets under the turned down part).

Mary Ann

angelface555

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Farrah doesn't like being enclosed. I believe it goes back to her being abused. I purchased a nice enclosed bed called a catball.   https://www.thecatball.com/  But she prefers being in an open-sided area. In her box, with a static-free base, she has one opening where she may face out. In the bedroom, she has a towel folded the long way that she prefers.

Mary Ann

Patricia, Kendrick's bed cost $10 from Amazon and is about 2 x 3 feet and is very flexible.  He sometimes sleeps there and in his scratch lounge a lot.  He doesn't like to sleep on a pad that I had bought to sit on when driving and went on the couch.  He wasn't doing any damage to the couch but I put a towel there anyway and he often sleeps there.  I don't know where he sleeps in the lower level because I don't go down there.  I think he is an "any port in a storm" cat - he'll sleep anywhere.  Kendrick probably would enjoy a catball for a while, but not forever.

Mary Ann


SCFSue

Beautiful photos, Sato.  Thanks for posting them.

Sue

FlaJean

We saw one of the Bluebird fledglings from the first Bluebird family, and I was able to get a quick photo of it.  Larry cleaned out the other birdhouse after the Chickadees left and now we have another Bluebird family nesting in it.  Not a very good picture but I was lucky to get it as it wasn't there long.

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angelface555

An interesting note is that all the water you saw in my refuge photos is sinking into the soil and by the early part of July will be gone. It is a yearly phenomenon. In the early spring, it may be quite deep and fast moving. It has something to do with the two rivers flowing through the preserve, spring runoff, and high water tables.

Sato, very lovely photos, and composition.

Jean, an interesting photo as we have no bluebirds here. We have birds with various coloration that includes blue but not those or any hummingbirds. All of the ones here tend to be either forest or waterbirds.

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A late summer view of the same area.


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Vanilla-Jackie

Angelface ( Patricia )
...quite shocked...who would have thought this was the same reservoir-pond...What and where do the fish and wildlife go who use it when it becomes this empty?
" There is no present like the time "

angelface555

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Jackie, it's an annual phenomenon at the refuge or sanctuary. The only users are waterbirds, insect, and the like. In the refuge's 2,200 acres are a variety of these and other wetlands and marsh/tundra as well as regular fields. Many of these have raised boardwalks to protect fragile areas or to cross stream, creeks and a few smaller sloughs. There are also handicap assessable areas for wheelchairs.

The area is a significant breeding stop or way station for the summer. They come from Australia, Europe, Asia and South America each year as well as Monarch Butterflies who take a three generations migratory route each year. Each year workers and volunteers plant barley and other seeds and plants for the birds. 

With the proximity of the rivers, there are also predatory birds such as hawks, eagles and owls and bears, lynx, wolves and other animals. Only a minimal area from the front viewing fields to a few back regions are open to the general public.

In the winter, there are specific areas used for sanctioned sled dog races. It is a beautiful area, and while a small part is within city limits, the whole entirety has been set aside for continuity due to the original dairy farmer's willed gift and subsequent additions. It's my favorite spot and the only one I have current access to.

This post was probably more than you were expecting for your question!

Vanilla-Jackie

Angelface...
...yes, but the more I have learnt the better... ;)
" There is no present like the time "