New Hawk! and other pictures

Well today I had quite the surprise, but unfortunatly i didnt great the greatest of photos, actually they are god awful.  A Goshawk was in my yard! The bird book i have (published sometime in the 1970's) says they hunt grouse, so i dont know why it is here, i have never seen a grouse.

It was exciting.


Now in the last post I had been complaining about not getting any pictures of hummingbirds, or seeing them, well i guess that old saying is true "ask and thou shall receive"  (These I actually took within the hour after the last post, so now i prefer to think " all you got to do is complain and..." )

 

 

 

 

Here is a Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly 

 

I guess the complaining works for Turkeys as well. 

 

The Chipmunk likes worms 

  

Grey Tree Frog 

This guy I tried to take photos of last summer, he sat on a leaf of the menarda for almost 3 days, but blended in so well the camera refused to focus. Today, i got 2 out of 15 attempts. 

Now for some deformed animals. 

first is this grey squirrel, it has some sort of growth on its right cheek area. It does look like it just has nuts stuffed in there, but it's been like that for the past 2 days (that i have seen it) 

 

Day 1

Day 2

I also discovered today where it lives, which is in the middle wood duck house at  the bottom of the hill.  

And Mr. Peter Rabbit, who is getting fat on my veggies, but also is helping weed my garden. 

The beet in that picture i pulled up only to find that half of it had been eaten, either by mr. peter rabbit or mice/voles, or both. 

Just adorable isnt he? 

now for his deformity. I think its an extra paw/leg but Im not sure. I didnt notice it till this past week. I thought it was just fur hanging like it had been attacked by a cat or hawk, but today i realized it looked more like an extra limb.  But maybe i am seeing something that isnt there.