Sorry for the light-weight blogging lately. Busy, yadayada, etc...

Here, have a couple of pictures of a fuzzy squirrel chowing down at my bird feeder (taken through the glass, hence the hazy look)...

Also, as an update to my earlier post about the Canada Goose nest behind my house, we had a spate of very rainy days with no let-up, and I was sure the little spit of land the geese had their nest on would be flooded (it does flood over when the rain is intense), so during a let-up in the wet I went down to take a look and found that the area of the nest was still dry, but the geese were gone and the eggs were broken and flat. I *think* they must have hatched, as the shells themselves were in pretty decent shape, not all shattered as I might expect if a coyote or something had gotten to them and given them a munch. I didn't get a picture then, but I did snap this photo about a week later (the shells had been in better shape before):

The worrisome thing is that the geese were not around, and I'd be surprised if the gosslings got big enough to go far so quickly, so maybe the end was not so happy after all.