Wildlife Days

The past couple of days we have had lots of wildlife around our property. 3 does decided to walk through the field across from us and then down the road.

A couple of days ago my dog, Ziva, decided to see how a toad tasted. She had her mouth on it when I saw them and gave the command, "Drop it" which I use to tell her to not eat whatever she has in her mouth. She had barely touched the toad. Maybe it didn't taste every good, so she backed off and after taking its photo I encouraged it to go hide in some flowers where it could eat bugs. 

One morning our resident chipmunks raided the pan of sunflower seeds, mostly for the birds.

The blue jays like the sunflower seeds but don't seem to be able to hang on the tuve feeders we put up for the finches, titmouse, gold finches, and woodpeckers. Of course all the birds use the plastic tub feeder as well.

Doves prefer to just eat off the ground.

Another day Ziva dug up a mole. She dropped it as soon as I told her too. It didn't seem hurt just confused at what had happened. After taking it's photo I pushed it back in the hole and later noticed it had disappeared leaving the hole filled in as they do. We have way to many of them but I didn't want Ziva to kill it. Funny creature and I don't think they are very smart or move very fast like other rodents. Chipmunds are really fast and seem smarter than any other rodent I have been around. 
 

My Random Thoughts

I think that all companies that put you on hold with music must hire someone who's job it is to find the most terrible music they can find so that you won't keep holding for a person to actually talk to. I guess that all of these business - banks, credit cards, utilities, stores- don't really want my business. 

Azalea and My Yard

My azalea is really pretty. And I got Ziva to poss beside of it.

Then she smelled a tulip. She didn't say if it smelled good or not.

Even the barberry has outdone it's self this spring. Or I think this bush is a barberry. I never had one before. The flowers are pale yellow against the dark red leaves and are really tiny.

 

Dogwood Trees

I don't remember the dogwoods being this beautiful the other three springs, (of course most of them froze last spring when we had a late freeze) we have been here in Kentucky. Wish we had one in our yard. Would think of planting one but at our ages we would never get to see it get this big. So we just drive around and admire all the ones in peoples yards and these that we saw on a drive across Butler State Park yesterday. 

We didn't realize there were so many wild dogwoods scattered through all the wooded areas around here. 

I cut some flowers off of a friends tree, (with permission) and then took some closeups of the flowers against a black window pane.

 

Pink Dogwood Trees

We took a drive through town a few days ago and saw dozens of white and pink dogwood trees in full bloom. They were beautiful. A few were in private yards but right on  the street so I took a few shots

ts and hope no one minds. They were so pretty I had to take photos of them. 

And there was a really pretty one on the grounds in front of the Carrol County Courthouse.

 

White Dogwood Trees

First photos are of a wild dogwood tree near my property. The last two photos are of a couple of dogwood trees I saw in town the other day.