Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Sunday’s Pictures #7.
Good morning on this beautiful Sunday! As usual we shall continue with our picture post for Sunday and with the bird theme once again this week. I apologize ahead of time, I won’t be able to respond to any of your comments until sometime this afternoon. At 7 am, our local time, we will be losing out electricity right across town for at least 6 hours. That means no internet for me until that electricity comes back on. They are doing some major upgrades to our hydro system here so need to have things shut down completely. I’m glad it’s not going to be a really cold day.
Now to pictures. And we will start with the white-throated sparrow which is around right now in larger numbers as they wait to head south.
Next we will have the male evening grosbeak, a bird that stays here year round and can really brighten up the winter.
Then we have the white pelican down on the river. These birds have all gone south now.
And lastly we have the female merganser swimming along on the river looking for lunch as she goes.
Okay, I decided to toss in one more, a broad winged hawk. I have shown other pictures of this one before, they have all long ago headed south.
Well, I hope you enjoyed today’s selection of bird pics. Enjoy your Sunday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
There’s A Mouse In Here!
Hi everybody! I’m back with a new adventure! I have discovered something, it can be hard to train your human. But I think I will leave that thought for another day. However, the other evening was an exciting one around here. But first, I need to say, when we moved to this apartment it was quite exciting, there were mice! For me that’s nice! But for some reason my human did not agree. Very odd.
But humans do seem to be that way when it comes to mice. Sometimes it is very hard to understand humans. It really is. Anyway, my human looked all over the bedroom (that’s where the mice were coming in) and finally found all the holes. And then…he plugged them up tight! That was so sad. I enjoyed all the mice to chase around the apartment. Sniff, sniff. Gave me something to do at night. So it was a bit dull for a while.
Until a mouse finally opened one of those holes again and came inside! YES!! I caught that little critter real quick! And my human seemed to be real impressed with that. But…then he went and closed up that hole once again. So odd. I mean, I would be willing to share with my human. After all, he shares with me. Even when he isn’t looking. Oh well. But then a couple days ago I heard another mouse running around in the walls. And under the bathtub! My human didn’t seem too pleased with that. But I sure was. My human left the bathroom, but I stayed behind to watch.
Didn’t have to wait long either. Just a short scramble and I caught that little mouse. I was so happy! I hear that some humans don’t like that idea. I don’t know why. That’s what I’m supposed to do, keep these critters away from my human. Oh well. My human seemed real happy that I caught the mouse! But then he did something very strange. He tossed the mouse outside for the crows! I couldn’t believe it! My mouse! Sigh. But I did get some extra treats for doing such a good job.
All for now, don’t forget to come back for more, next time I will talk about training my human. Believe me, it’s hard! I hope you all have a great weekend.
Muffin.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
Steve`s Country 