{"id":34712,"date":"2020-02-19T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T06:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=34712"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:18:10","slug":"some-of-the-critters-that-have-been-visiting-here-of-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=34712","title":{"rendered":"Some of the critters that have been visiting here of late"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caveat lectorem:<\/strong> When readers submit comments, they are asked if they want to receive an email alert with a link to new postings on this blog. A number of people have said they do. Thank you. The link is created the moment a posting goes online. Readers who find their way here through that link can see an updated version by simply clicking on the headline above the posting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Needing a break from the political scene<\/strong>, I spent much of the past week photographing the critters that show up at Mitchell cabin.<\/p>\n

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Eleven blacktail deer grazing near Mitchell cabin last Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Following the deer up the hill were 21 wild turkeys.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Which led to an unusual stare-down.<\/em><\/p>\n

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For almost three years there’d been a dearth of possums around Mitchell cabin, but this past week two showed up on our deck after dark to nibble kibble.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here a possum and raccoon dined together with no confrontations Sunday evening.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Raccoons, of course, are fairly comfortable around a number of other animals. Here four of them ate kibble alongside a skunk last fall.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And here a possum dined contentedly between two gray foxes just outside our kitchen door\u00c2\u00a0awhile back.<\/i><\/p>\n

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But the most integrated dining I have seen were this possum, fox, and raccoon, which I photographed together next to the kitchen door in 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Monday morning Lynn woke me up so I could see this sharp-shinned <\/em>hawk on the railing of our lower deck. The young hawk’s expression is mighty stern, and I fear it may be hunting the birds that show up on our upper deck to eat birdseed. (Photo by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell)<\/em><\/p>\n

In short, not all wildlife live in harmony<\/strong> around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caveat lectorem: When readers submit comments, they are asked if they want to receive an email alert with a link to new postings on this blog. A number of people have said they do. Thank you. The link is created the moment a posting goes online. Readers who find their way here through that link […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,11],"tags":[422,214,68,67,1303,1183,17],"class_list":["post-34712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-west-marin-nature","category-wildlife","tag-blacktail-deer","tag-gray-fox","tag-possum","tag-raccoon","tag-sharp-shinned-hawk","tag-skunk","tag-wild-turkeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34712"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40622,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34712\/revisions\/40622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}