Early Trick or Treat

Curious family just has to see what is going on in here!!!

Deer

Aug. 29, 2012, evening, outside our studio windows, 4 adult female and 2 baby deer were enjoying the cracked corn we put out, and running around the yard. What a treat!!!

Bobcat with Coffee

While having morning coffee on the deck this morning, out walked a bobcat from the woods. At about 20'away, he/she spotted us, took a good look, turned around and walked back into the woods!! Squirrels beware! This image is the closest to a bobcat I've done, called Jaguar's Daughter.

Saving Wolves

I'm not a cause follower usually, but there's something about wolves. Love them. http://www.causes.com/causes/661738-federal-protection-of-the-u-s-wolf
These are on www.patgullettdesigns.com, prints of my mixed media paintings.

Who's Your Daddy!!!!

Good Morning!! I ran downstairs to the jewelry studio to get a neck ring and this is the sight that awed me outside the window!! Looking in fine form!! The girls just kept eating the corn...not impressed.

Big Flapping

Something just caught my eye on the deck....lots of flapping, big, waving wings! Eyeing the bird feeder, oh no!!

Deer

Outside the jewelry studio, eating cracked corn, secretly taken through a window and screen. We have been seeing a doe and her "teen" baby around the yard lately.

Turkeys are back!

The turkeys have returned to the ridge in full force from wherever they go (reservoir/thickets/lower ground?), and are looking good. This is from my jewelry studio window.

Pilated Woodpeckers

I saw one on our stump out back, went for the camera, when the second flew in! Looking like pterodactyls, and about 14"long, these two usually stay in the deep forest!

Creatures

Love Creatures, especially an Indonesian Dragon, found laying eggs in her nest, and released right after this photo was taken; a peeking owl, and my owl print available on my website, www.patgullettdesigns.com. Life is wonderful, mystical, and full of surprises.

Forest was Alive

Yesterday, while Dave worked on rebuilding our deck that we discovered was built with untreated wood, out trotted 3 deer. One with antlers, one young female, and a spotted fawn prancing & leaping, all headed towards our apple trees. They weren't timid with us being right there, 20 feet away. They hung around, in & out of the forest, for the better part of the day. Then a yellow chested Marmot wandered out, eating his way over to our apples also. Cute, big like a woodchuck, with a black mask face, striped body, black furry tail. We did look this up in our Ct. animals resource. At the end of the day, with the garage doors open, an iridescent green hummingbird flew into the window area, and couldn't find the way out! He kept flying into the window. With some gentle guidance with a broom, we got him into a bucket, clamped a cardboard on the bottom, and took it far out into the yard. He laid there, and we thought maybe he had a heart attack or something, but finally saw him blink. After a few moments, he stood up, and flew off to live another day.

Baby racoons found the leftover bread!!