Sniffing the Wind
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
Just behind him is a large patch of wild carrot plants – he can’t wait for them to grow some more
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 207.88000488281mm
- ISO: 1250
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Meet Scurry the Squirrel
Head Squirrel of the Garden Clean-up Team
Scurry the Squirrel – because he scurries and he is an Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and with a genus like Sciurius naming him Scurry just fits.
Despite being black(ish) he/she is nevertheless a Gray Squirrel, as are the rather less common cream coloured forms.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 219.82000757863mm
- ISO: 320
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Limbering Up for Easter
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 220mm
- ISO: 160
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Lunchtime for Squirrels
Just a few Viburnum berries left this January, being eagerly eaten by a pair of voracious squirrels.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: +7/10EV
- Focal length: 220mm
- ISO: 640
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Sunflower Squirrel
Sunflower Squirrel
Gray squirrel (black form) lunching on fresh sunflower seeds.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 186.64mm
- ISO: 250
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Bandits
Long time visitors to this site will have seen this image before – it’s the “best” raccoon portrait I have ever taken (I think) but the recent visitations have not allowed me to better it, so here it it again. Fun creatures so long as they don’t get in your garbage.
- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: Canon EOS 20D
- Exposure bias: -1/3EV
- Focal length: 260mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/40s
Busy Paws
Raccoon
Very stormy and wet day so we passed much of it watching the garden and between rainy blatter periods mother raccoon and four youngsters paraded from one patch of vegetation across the pond and into the trees. Always takes time to grab the camera so this is kid number four.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 174.93mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Breakfast
Cone Harvest
Around now the garden squirrels climb up the high trees around the house and snip off the pine cones. These fall on the roof of the sunroom with a great crash and are later in the day rounded up by the squirrels for a healthy snack. This was an early breakfast for one of our friends.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 177.86mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/800s
White-tailed Deer
Unworried
We happened upon this well-nourished deer in the arboretum a day or two ago and spent a few minutes staring at each other. It knew we were there but apart from showing a little caution it didn’t really seem unduly worried.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 83.9mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/320s
Fruit Season
Four pictures for the price of one today. The berries on the Amelanchier canadensis tree have started to ripen and are being eagerly devoured by the garden residents. Cedar Waxwings have been occasional visitors, American Robins have been almost constantly seen and then we have a tree-climbing Eastern Chipmunk and a juvenile male Northern Cardinal. Lots of nutrition for the natives.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 220mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/250s