This is what it looks like when you don't mow all summer. It's on the side of the house where no one can see it though. I call it my prairie. All the crickets like to hang out there.

We put a bat house on our shed, in the hopes that bats will move in and eat the mosquitoes that breed in the pond.

Black cat.

Two raccoons!

Squirrel fattening up on acorns.

Only a few seconds later, and he is perfectly dry.

It looks like the raccoon would have to be in the water, but it must be on the ledge of the pond.

Squirrel.

This isn't a good picture because it was taken through a window but that is a hawk. I saw it fly by to a tree. Then it swooped down and acted like it was trying to catch something and flew back up to another tree, but it hadn't caught anything.

The fox is back. If it were closer to Halloween, I'd call that an apparition above it with two eyes. Hmmm...maybe it's just his aura.

Hope it's just drinking and not harrassing my frogs.

Black cat with white feet. It looks smaller than I thought it was, if it's the usual cat.

A very healthy looking fox! Could this be mangey fox, all cured, sporting his new fall coat?

Raccoon blinded by the flash.

What's he doing coming up out of the pond that way?

Scratching in the dirt.

1:17 a.m. Climbing up onto the pond deck.

Spotted Fawns Spotted

This morning we spotted two spotted fawns! They were lying down in our yard, near a pile of sticks. They seemed quite content, but their mother was nowhere to be seen. They were out there for quite a while and it didn't seem like they were going to move any time soon.

Both frogs are still in the pond on a daily basis. They are almost unnoticeable now that duck weed has covered the pond. Two springs ago I had ordered aquatic plants, but not duck weed, although I think a small piece was on one of the other plants I ordered and now has taken over. It is good frog camouflage.

Black cat with white feet up close.

Black cat.

Fox.

Fox again at 5 a.m.

Return of the fox!

Raccoon.

If that raccoon were any farther in the pond, he'd be swimming. I didn't see the big frog today. Hopefully he's still around. The big frog is more shy than the little frog, who was out there just now.

Raccoon. As far as other wildlife goes, we saw the doe and her 2 fawns again back in the park behind our house.

Big frog (he's probably the size of my hand).

Both frogs.

Smaller green frog.

Big frog and little frog.

Blinded by the flash.

The raccoon makes a daytime appearance again. Look at its funny feet. I'm used to seeing cat feet.

Maybe this doe is the mother of the spotty fawn.

Notice the hosta has been eaten! I saw it was eaten, thinking probably deer ate it and sure enough there were pictures of deer caught on film! This deer does not have spots.

A spotty fawn! Notice the hosta...

This looks like a youngster.

I think this is the adult raccoon, maybe the mother.

What's this raccoon doing out in broad daylight?