Fall colors 2013

Here are some pictures from our yard and around the neighborhood.

These first three pictures are the oak tree just beyond our fence. 

 

 

This was taken about two weeks after the top photo.

 

Here are the three trees out front...

 

 

 

 

 

This is taken from our backyard...

 



 

 

And these are from our neighborhood.  Note the last one.  It's a small maple that seems to be on fire.

 

 

Oh. Deer.

I stepped outside and I didn't seem to bother them too much.  Just kind of walked off into the woods.

Hawk Fan?

Cindy would normally describe herself as a Hawk fan...but not of this one.

I saw him flying in the neighborhood one day last week.  Later that morning Cindy called to say there was a hawk on top of our neighbor's house and that there was blood on the deck.  Russ was going nuts over the whole thing.  I told her the hawk would fly off if Russ went outside.  Well it moved to a tree in the backyard but didn't want to fly off.  No body was found but clearly something happened.

Cindy got a great shot of this Red-tailed Hawk.

Clouds Pt. 3

Quite a season for clouds.  These look like someone took a paintbrush to add some color.  Note the bird in the first picture. 

 

 

A Family Affair

I was thinking this morning that we haven't seen any deer for awhile.  I was in the house when one caught my eye moving in the woods.  And pretty soon here comes a doe walking toward our yard.  I had to close the door on Russ so I could see what was going on.  Along came a fawn.  Got some fun video of it jumping and running.  And then came the buck crashing out of the woods and then the family followed him back into the trees.  I did get one picture of the buck before they disappeared...

 

 

 

 

Fawn Fun

I saw this fawn before Russ did so I was able to get a few pictures before he knew I was up to something.  Cindy and I saw other movement in the woods but only saw it and the mom. 

 

 

 

 

 

Go away!

I was out with Russ the other night as it was getting dark.  I could hear the birds chattering in the woods.  I figured a cat was in the woods and went up the hill to look.  I turned back toward the houses and saw the silhouette of a Great Horned Owl!  It would be cool enough to see an owl perched like that but the lighting made it appear like the Grim Reaper :)

You see restaurants use fake owls to scare away birds...what could scare an owl away?  Apparently not Robins.  They were on the roof chattering away and one would swoop toward the owl but it could have cared less.  Here are a few shots.  The second picture I used the flash and you can see an eye which adds to the spooky factor.