Every day this week I've come home to find a squirrel perched on the bird feeder. Now I'm not like most people - I'm not angry that they're stealing from the birds or anything like that. Actually, I'm impressed. I remember watching one of them over the winter run around back and forth trying desperately to get up at the thing.
Well, I dont know if this is the same one or not but kudos to you, you cheeky little squirrel.
If you've ever seen Hitchcock's The Birds, you know how frightening this scene really is.
I was out at East Paris Nature Park today, trying to ride in the 90+ weather, and stumbled across some geese chilling in the shade. As I was taking out my camera to snap a photo, they spotted me and started to advance.
As you can see from these photos, they continued to slowly swim their way over to me. Hoping, no doubt, that I had a bag of bread stuffed in my camera bag.
Lucky for me some unsuspecting children and their grandparents were stopping by to attempt fishing. Since there were more people over by the bridge, they casually changed course. I'm sure they figured the odds of being fed were greater with a greater concentration of humans.
So today I was at the Detroit Zoo, hanging with some friends. While looking at one of the exhibits, and discussing with John the zombie craze that has taken over video games as of late, he suddenly realized that some serious protection could be had if one owned a vulture.
Now seriously, hear me out. Nearly every movie or depiction of zombies you see it only affects humans (yes yes, there are exceptions like 28 Days Later, but stop ruining my fun!). Well zombies are just dead (albeit reanimated) flesh. Vultures eat dead flesh. So, vultures + zombies = escape!
I officially have a plan B in case of zombie attack. Thanks John!
The last time I was at Pickerel Lake Park it started raining and I wasn't really able to get any good photographs. Well this time I could get a little closer to the swans I saw last time. Unfortunately, this was as close as I could get still. :/ And the zoom on my camera apparently isnt strong enough....
Still, you can make out the male and female (on the pile) hanging by their nest.
...you make bath time so much fun!
Ok seriously. Being out on a lake means you spot a lot of birds. Ducks, geese, loons, and even swans litter the surface of St Mary's Lake. So far the swans haven't gotten close enough, but I've snagged pics of the others.
Here is a pic of a female duck I caught. She was swimming around while the male was just a few feet away watching her.
I'll also throw in a pic of some geese I was watching at Scottsville Riverside Park.
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