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ashkats
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crystal falls, Michigan, US
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friendly little outdoor critters
do you have any that ya might be taking care of? like i feed the birds and i also have squirrels, a female red one that been coming for years now she will live out the winter under my wood pile all winter long, she sit in my window feeder and snacks on sunflower seeds and then the birds i got several chic a dees ,some nuthatches and redbreasted nuthatch all kinds of finches and sparrows bluejays and gooesbecks... amd a few others
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| November 3, 2008, 10:26 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
Got bird feeders, keep binoculars and bird book on the table...
Love wathcing nature, fed the orioles for the first time this past spring, gorgeous birds!
Sadly, I also noticed and reported the spread of a bird virus which left some of them with horrible tumors, but that has now passed.
Since the lack of bees last year, had to buy squirrel food. They just wasn't any polination going on so...no nuts!
I'm happy to live where seeing critters is common but always awesome! eagles and vultures, to groundhogs and red fox.
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| November 3, 2008, 11:45 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
i live on the third floor, but there's big tree right outside my window. i think there may be a squirrels nest, i always see the squirrels playing in the tree. 
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| November 5, 2008, 00:11 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
hang a ear of corn on a string or wire might be better ,they are cool enough the grays and the black one too i don't mind the squirrels so muck i slow down on feeding in summer ,we have chipmunk's or chippies i don't see many of them around the wild cats must be cleaning them up
we feed orioles in the spring ya always can tell when they are around by their call they like grape jelly too . i also have some picture of some fox pups on a big round hay Bale behind my garage they were sunning their selves
i also read that there is a shortage of bees... ail we got is jap Beatles and hornets and bumble bees
haven't seen any with tumors though
qalso like to give them old peenuts in the shell too
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| November 5, 2008, 01:03 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
The chipmunks come and go here, didn't see many at all this year.
Walking in the yard is like walking on marbles with all the hickory nuts and acorns but we had none at all last year....the cats love it when I bring in a handfull for them to play with. I put seed just outside a window or two to amuse them too.
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| November 5, 2008, 07:10 |
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69oak69
64 / male
Heart of Illinois, Illinois, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
We put out seed and suet for the wintertime birds-Blue Jays, Cardinals, Downey Woodpeckers, juncoes, and peewees among others, also some Mourning Doves that forget to migrate. The summertime birds have to look out for themselves, except we do put out sugar water for the Hummingbirds. You might think there arent any hummingbirds in your area, but put out a hummingbird feeder with sugar water in it, and in a couple of weeks you'll be wondering where they all came from. The Owls, crows, ducks, and geese seem to take care of themselves.
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| November 5, 2008, 10:22 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
ya seems to be a lack of them and i dont mind them too much just that they kick all the seed out of the big feeder , they just want them there black sunflower seeds,when we are out in the garden you can see them all hopping around the yard and they are planting the seed so when it rains they all pop up alla over the yard.
have to put up some suit now that its cooler i have a few woodpeckers that visit too i got pictures of one he's just a king size one with a orange head amd a few ladderbacks too
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| November 5, 2008, 10:22 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
Got a pair of Pileated woodpeckers (My daddy just calls them woodhens) that visit the lower edge of the property every morning, beautiful birds.
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| November 5, 2008, 10:43 |
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69oak69
64 / male
Heart of Illinois, Illinois, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
Chazzy, have you ever noticed a Pileated Woodpecker's nest hole? Unlike other wood peckers, they cut rectangular entrance holes. I never quite believed this til I was cutting up a downed tree that had one in it.
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| November 5, 2008, 12:41 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
Unfortunately no friendly little critters, just the annoying blackbirds and pigeons.
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| November 5, 2008, 13:57 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
I went out and bought a hummingbird feeder not too long ago. Me and the kids were outside when he just came down and hoovered right above my little one's head. I had to keep him fed after that. 
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| November 5, 2008, 19:31 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
when i was younger, we lived out in the country, we had a black walnut tree...i used to get a laugh when the stray cats would chase the squirrels up it, and the squirrels would bomb them with the walnuts.... 
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| November 5, 2008, 23:27 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
wow lonly, that a good way to train them to pick nuts for ya then ya can make a pan of brownies .....we had squirrels bombing us with acorns out in the woods at times when we are cutting firewood. not much more for them to throw at ya, no hickory's nuts up here.
humming birds remember ya putting them feeders out year after year, they are neat and we like sitting on the deck in summmer watching them chase each other . in the spring we get the hummers and the oreos at the same time . we even had a flock of turkeys one morning right by the back door, i got the cam a got to snap a few shots of thenm. i even had a few cedder wax wings bounch off the window twice i think now , ya hear whomp on the glass and go out and there be something lying on the ground looking at ya like it still seeing stars yet lol
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| November 6, 2008, 01:40 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
Sguirrles are funny, quite smart too.
Got a possum living in one of my sheds, (last year I posted about the nasty thing making his home on my front porch, now he's content to living in the shed out back and I'm content with that too)
Oh yeah, ash...I've got a few of those big woodpecker nests in several trees!
Just took down the hummingbird feeders for the year, they've migrated on out of my area, but next spring, I'll walk outside and they will buzz my head telling me it's time to hang the feeders back up.
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| November 6, 2008, 08:58 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
ours all flew south and i dont blame them is not a nice day high of 58 and the wind from the south and raining....
then they come back in the spring all the snow is gone on the deck they like to fly right up to the patio door and hover looking at us . a few are tame sorta they land on the feeders when you are sitting out there
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| November 6, 2008, 12:18 |
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
Well..... there are the Bears!
xox 
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| November 6, 2008, 19:47 |
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Re: Re: friendly little outdoor critters
QUOTE (ashkats @ November 6, 2008, 12:18)ours all flew south and i dont blame them is not a nice day high of 58 and the wind from the south and raining....
then they come back in the spring all the snow is gone on the deck they like to fly right up to the patio door and hover looking at us . a few are tame sorta they land on the feeders when you are sitting out there
Oh yeah, they are pushy little shits! They will flat out let you know if the feeder is empty, mildewing, or you didn't get the water/sugar ratio to thier liking.
I've had one or two, for some reason....fly right into my kitchen when I've opened the door.
Had a goldfinch flying around my upstairs spare room just a few weeks ago, had the window cracked open just enough, I finally herded him back on out, much to my cat's disappointment.
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| November 7, 2008, 21:47 |
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KINKYINTHEFALLS
56 / male
wild and wonderful, West Virginia, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
I used to have a squirrel that used to come around pretty much daily. If you were laying in the back yard catching a tan or swimming, he'd come right up and take an ice cube from your drink. He'd also take food from you hand. We stopped giving him stuff when my son was a little older out of fear he might try and grab it.
It was really cool for a while though, my stepdaughter and niece got a big kick out of it.
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| November 7, 2008, 22:11 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
they are cool enough and to have a tame one is great we have a gray that come in in the spring looking half starved got keep plenty of corn for them out. don't have many birds at all that get in just them damn bats and they seemed to slow down haven't got many in the fish tank net lately but when they do i got 3 cats and it turns into a regular field day for them, ya never seen them fat cats run so fast lol oh we bait them there squirrels with peanut butter hey they just love it,got one in a trap once ,i was getting up in the morning and there was a squirrel looking in the patio door at me and not being awake yet i noticed it had no hair on its tail.... standing on its hind legs and the next morning there was a bigger one even..
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| November 8, 2008, 13:42 |
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KINKYINTHEFALLS
56 / male
wild and wonderful, West Virginia, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
Yeah you have to watch out for those squirrels with no hair on the tail. To me squirrels are nothing more than a rat with a furry tail.
However they will always secure me in my job
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| November 8, 2008, 13:47 |
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ashkats
64 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: friendly little outdoor critters
i know was watching that guy once that eats weird food and roof rabits were on the menu......yuck
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| November 8, 2008, 13:58 |
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