Hot day in the shade

Nice shot. If one of these was relaxing in my backyard the granddaughter would turn cartwheels with joy and want to stroke it and give it a saucer of milk Some of my neighbours a few miles away have similar creatures in their backyards but they own stately mansions and many acres. Most of them are called lords and earls

pentaxuser

In desert-like Colorado, the suburban residential lots are small to save on water and are surrounded by largish common areas. In those areas there is a surprisingly heavy population of wildlife - rabbits galore, prairie dogs, coyotes, deer, fox, elk, raccoons, hawks, the occasional mountain lion, black bear and eagle. A friend claims to have seen a moose within 10 miles last year. Our yard was much more popular with the deer before we put 4ft-tall circles of mesh fencing around the rose bushes and trimmed away the lower limbs of the crabapple tree. In the back ground I can make out the 1ft tall stub of a bush that is actually 17 years old.

Thanks. Always nice to know the surroundings and animal life that we in the U.K. can barely imagine. I do see the occasional hawk round here but he is usually selling double glazing to unsuspecting prey

Since this post, I saw a cow moose and 2 calves 1/2 mile from my house!