02-FEB-2012
Black squirrel eating buds
Animals have to be inventive and varied in their eating habits in winter, or they'd starve. Several squirrels were cutting off tiny slender twigs and eating the fat buds which will provide them with a nutritious snack.
02-FEB-2012
Brown creeper
This was taken on a ponderosa pine in the Arboretum. However, even though it was not taken at the FWG and is not a good shot, I post it as a reminder that these elusive little treecreepers are around and to keep an eye out for them, especially in the Ash Woods.
02-FEB-2012
American robin with crabapple
There were at least 15 robins around the FWG today, and this one had plucked a large crabapple from a tree and was having a tough time with it. He must have chased it across the snow half a dozen times, picking bits from it each time. You can see his tracks leading to the right of the image, made when he followed the crabapple across the snow!
