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Steve’s Daily Pics #184.
Good morning! It’s a beautiful, sunny morning and just a bit cooler than the last few mornings, but so nice and fresh sitting here on the deck bright and early, waiting for the sun to rise. The phoebe is calling out his name, the loon is flying overhead and laughing so joyfully. The air is still, not a flutter among the leaves except when a bird moves. The bees will soon be busy at all the raspberry flowers once again, there are a lot of bees around these days. And so many other insects as well. I have been getting quite a collection of different insect pictures lately. But identifying them is no easy matter. Online identification sites are sometimes more frustrating than helpful. Hard to beat a good old fashioned book for identification of things sometimes. Oh well.
Last evening a chipmunk showed up for peanuts that I had just put outside and right then the squirrel showed up and the chase was on! The chase just began when a second chipmunk showed up and joined in the chase! The 3 of them were running all around my little container garden and ended with one chipmunk chasing the squirrel right off the deck. While he did that the first chipmunk filled up with peanuts and left just as the second chipmunk returned and he filled up and left fast just as the squirrel came back. Poor squirrel, he looked somewhat confused, probably saying to himself, “I think something went wrong here”. He just sat there looking around, then finally grabbed a peanut and off he went.
Well, more birds for us to enjoy this morning, although we have seen both birds before, but not so close as this time. The picture at the top of the post is a family of Canada geese down at the river. There are several families of geese down there now. Then in the picture above is one of the white pelicans which came closer than ever before. The only way he could come any closer would be to climb up on the rock with me. Well, I hope you all have a most wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Beautiful
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome
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Cool pics Steve😎💖😎💖😎💖😎
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Thank you Maryam!😀😺🌞
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No prob Steve 😺
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Good morning Steve! What a nice morning entertainment 🐿😉
Have a wonderful day both of you! 😻😊
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Good morning Ribana! Another beautiful day. I hope your day has been good!😃😺🌞☕☕
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Have a great day too!
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Thank you Sheree!
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More peanuts! More peanuts! 😂😂😂
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Yep, that’s the way it is around here!!😂😹🐿🐿🐿
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Very good Morning Steve, Bees? are you sure there is no hornets around? Stay safe ! 😊 And chipmunks are real fun to watch chase each other 😍. Beautiful close shot of ducks and pelicans 👌 Hope you have an amazing Thursday Beginning ✨🤗
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Good evening Simon! Or maybe it’s good night now. It’s been a busy morning here. There are hornets too, but I try to stay away from them! Time to go for my walk now, beautiful sunny hot day!😁🌞😎🚶♂️🚶♂️🏞
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It’s good morning now, must be night for you, I think it’s still bright out there, Enjoy the bright evening Steve ✨ Hope you had fun walking in the beautiful hot day ,✨🤗
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Yes, it was a beautiful walk and a lovely time down at the river! It is still bright but the sun has set, it will stay light for another hour. But I am heading to bed, good night Simon!😁😴
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The pics are lovely to see ! Try and get some shut eye tonight even tho’ it is going to be another warm night ! ☕️☕️😎🙀😴😼
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Thanks so much! I don’t have any problems sleeping in the heat, I sleep better when it’s warm, than when it’s too cool.😀😺🌞
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Let’
s hope next time he just might join you on the rock with you. You could name him then. 🙂 Nice post Sir Steve.
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Thanks so much Chrissy! I’m sure if I had some minnows with me he would come to me easily.😁😺🌞
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Good Night ✨😍
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I would have thought there would be no contest between a chipmunk and a squirrel. I would have put all my money on the squirrel!
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Yes, normally that is the case, but I think this squirrel just got himself confused chasing two chipmunks around all the flower containers and he probably didn’t realize who was chasing him!
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Well played by the chipmunks!
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Yes, sometimes I think they work together just to confuse that squirrel!
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The power of teamwork!
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Amazingly enough, they did it again today!😂🐿🐿
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Smart little guys!
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That first pic is really awesome!
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Thanks Lydia!
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