{"id":39060,"date":"2022-08-30T18:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=39060"},"modified":"2022-08-30T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:31:44","slug":"all-hands-or-paws-on-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=39060","title":{"rendered":"All hands \u2014 or paws \u2014 on deck"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m often amazed by the variety of wildlife<\/strong> around Mitchell cabin, but even more amazing is the variety that shows up on the cabin’s deck.<\/p>\n

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A possum, fox, and raccoon<\/strong> peacefully dine on kibble together just outside our kitchen door.<\/p>\n

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These critters<\/strong> dine peacefully even when I’m there to encourage them. I don’t encourage petting possums in general, but I happened to know this fellow.\"\"<\/p>\n

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My wife Lynn feeds<\/strong> a couple of slices of bread to a fox at the kitchen door.\"\"<\/p>\n

And they bring their friends<\/strong>. Here are three foxes that showed up for kibble on our deck.<\/p>\n

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A raccoon and skunk<\/strong> share a handful of roasted peanuts.<\/p>\n

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Roof rats<\/strong>\u00a0are unusually numerous in Point Reyes Station this year, each evening showing up for birdseed that birds left behind on our deck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A squirrel surveys the world<\/strong> from our birdbath on the deck.<\/p>\n

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One surprising visitor on our decks<\/strong> awhile back was this blacktail doe near the hot tub on our lower deck.<\/p>\n

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I’m often amazed by the variety of wildlife around Mitchell cabin, but even more amazing is the variety that shows up on the cabin’s deck.                     A possum, fox, and raccoon peacefully dine on kibble together just outside our kitchen door.           […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-point-reyes-station","category-uncategorized","category-west-marin-nature","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060","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=39060"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39123,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39060\/revisions\/39123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}