Willy Nilly Friday 5 & Fun Friday Favorites, February 19, 2016

 Joining Tanya (Around Roanoke) and Cath (Cath @ Home) today for WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE and FUN FRIDAY FAVORITES



 

1.  Don't they look peaceful and sweet.  The one on the left is Miss Dottie and she is nearly 16 years old.  The one on the right is Harley.  He'll turn 8 in late April.

 

 

Well last Thursday evening they were anything but peaceful and sweet.  I was watching television when all of a sudden the female ran into the living room followed by the male who then proceed to viciously attack her.  I tried to get him off of her and he bit my arm and then cornered her and begin attacking her again.  I yelled for my granddaughter upstairs to come help and she also got bit by Harley but I was able to grab Dottie up and get her away from him.  We ended up having to keep them separated for 2 full days from each other.  What caused this strange bizarre behavior?  Well it's called,  Redirected Feline Agression.  You can read about it HERE: 
Let me tell you it's pretty scary when it happens.  Thankfully after a couple of days they settled back into their normal sweet selves again. 


2.  I went out to look for a few signs of spring the other day and spotted several of these Water Stridders (we call them water skippers) in the little stream just a few houses away from where we live.  Wikipedia has a lot of information on them that is quite interesting. 

3.  Coleen and I drove out past the area where we spotted the deer last year and low and behold there were a couple in a field.  We stopped to watch them and before long those two were joined by others.  These are White-Tail deer.  You can read more about them HERE:

This is one of the last shots I took of them before we left.  There are 8 deer in this photo.  Note the one on the far right....(taking a dump).  Just for fun here is my favorite Far Side Cartoon....

4.  On my walk the other day looking for fences I spotted this sweet scene:

A pair of Mallard Ducks in some shrubbery.  Another sign spring is on the way as I've seen several pairs of ducks or 2 males & a female together already this month.  These two were across the street from out local park which is home to lots of ducks and other birds.  Apparently you can find a political cartoon: Mallard Fillmore which features a mallard duck.  Is nothing sacred anymore!

5.  I spotted this fun little figurine while out on my walk as well.

I'm not sure what the purpose of the two stacked rocks on it's back is but it made for a fun photo subject.  If you like goats here are a few blogs you can visit to enjoy goat antics and such.

1. Green Eggs & Goats
2. Eden Hills
3. Baby Goats and Friends

Well that's it for this week.  I hope you've enjoyed your visit.  Have a great weekend.







Stalking a Wild Bird

 
 

Joining in on Wild Bird Wednesday  with Stewart from Paying Ready Attention.

No this isn't a bird.  It's our neighbor's cat, Ghost.   Just what was the object of his deep, intense look.....

We of course did not let Ghost bother them and they went about feeding as if he weren't even there.

Also this week.... "Woody" as I've named him returned again. 
Woody is a woodpecker that returns year after year to the same telephone pole next door to our house and spends hours pecking away on that pole.  I'm not sure what kind of a woodpecker he is or if it's even a "he" and this is about the best shot I got of him last night.

There is some red on it's head but it's not showing in this photo.

Sunlit Sunday

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Today is the last post for SUNLIT SUNDAY for this year so I thought I would join in and spread some sunshine.  We've had a lot of (rain) this week but the sun was actually a couple of days and boy did I take advantage of those moments to enjoy it.

Another shot of those gorgeous Pussy willow blooms.  (There is another photo of these in my Songography post)

Caught this little guy catching some sun rays after a rain shower the other day.

This little Female Mallard Duck was out with her mate enjoying some sun, water & bird seed yesterday after it stopped raining and the sun came out.

We spotted this little kitty enjoying some sunshine on our way to the library and I just had to stop and take her picture.  The kids playing in the yard told us her name was, Callie.  Doesn't she look sweet.

We also made a stop to take some photo's of the "egg tree".  A woman in town hangs up colored eggs on her tree every spring and they looked so cheery I just had to take some pictures of them.

I hope you've enjoyed this little bit of Sunshine and whether or not the sun is actually shining where you live today let's hope you have happy, sunny thoughts to cheer you up and give you hope that Spring is on it's way.