Anyone reading my blog on a regular basis will know that we often have flying squirrels in our garden. They are nocturnal and so are always around at night and always seem to prefer one of our feeders which is furthest from the house. This means that taking a photo has been a trial.
Recently we moved one of our feeders to a tree outside the kitchen window and we have been leaving food on it at night in the hope the squirrel will find it – well he did.
Last night we had one of the flying squirrels in the feeder box and because he is much closer we finally managed to get some decent photos of him. Now is he cute or what?
Flying Squirrel
Flying Squirrel
I just adore him. You can just about make out the flaps of skin along his front legs which form the “wings” he uses to “fly” between trees.
Onto a completely different subject – we only paid 65.9 cents for gas yesterday. That is the cheapest we have ever paid since being in Canada. even when we first arrived 2.5 years ago it was 72c. See miracles do happen at Christmas time!
On that subject.
I want to wish everyone a really lovely Christmas – here’s to a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009.
On Friday we got lots of snow as the weather man promised. When we got up Saturday we had about 7 inches but as there was also lots of wind a lot had drifted so in some areas we had over a foot of the stuff. We decided to go out on Saturday as another big storm was forecast for Sunday and another on Christmas Eve.
We did some grocery shopping and I also wanted to buy some hair curlers. I ended up in Walmart as they had them on sale and I purchased some. When I got home I opened the box and found that the electric cable was all over the place instead of being tied neatly as you would normally find. I then noticed there were no instructions etc in the box. When I looked at the product itself I found lots of long dark hairs wrapped round it – yuk! Talk about turn my stomach – I had been sold a second-hand product. On Monday, once the second storm has passed I will be taking this straight back with a very big complaint. I am furious about this and someone there is going to get an earful from me. Just imagine if this had been a present and I had not checked inside the box first – I doesn’t bare thinking about.
Whilst out I also purchased Animal Crossing: City Folk for my Wii (sealed and definitely new) so I will be playing on this over the weekend.
Anyway, I’ll calm down now and tell you about a new bird we had in our garden. The other day hubby noticed a large flock of birds swoop in but he did not have time to identify them before they flew off. Well, they came back and we managed to get some distant photos of them, but it was enough to identify them. They are cedar waxwings and there were lots of them. Strangely they were accompanied by quite a few robins. They were obviously all together. Here are some pics which are not very good due to the distance.
We also spotted a meadow vole the other night. We knew we had them in the area as they tunnel under the snow and leave trails which you can see when the snow start to thaw. The other night was the first time we had seen them but it was too dark to get a photo.
Speaking of photos, I bought hubby a new camera for Christmas and these are some pics he took yesterday of chickadees.
And this one looks like he has had a bad hair day!
