Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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BADGES
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- 02-02-2018
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- 03-13-2018
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- 03-25-2018
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- 03-26-2018
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- Year #6!! 02/2019
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- 04-13-2019
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- 11-21-19
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Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
Linda – I love that first picture great look!
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Andy, they seem to be getting fatter by the day and are now waddling. When I was a little girl growing up in Canada, we had a song we sang with words: “Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat – please put a penny in the old man’s hat.” I am sure the geese for the holiday table are not as plump as these squirrels are. 🙂
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We had that song here as well
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I’m betting it was an English song to begin with – I learned it growing up in Canada.
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They do look well nourished! I would call them butterballs as well.
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Ron – they do not know when to push away from the peanuts unlike we humans who resist that second helping of pumpkin pie … well sometimes we humans are smart.
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I’m afraid I look a bit like the squirrel this year.
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Well, it is colder weather, but you had a lot of stress to deal with with the loss of your pet rat companion, followed by the devastation of your trailer. It’s hard not to be a stress eater (cookies or chocolate especially).
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All colors of squirrels!!
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And levels of “fatness” too! I like to poke fun at them Anne … they are really getting chunky.
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They do plump up for winter. It has to take them through a lot of bad weather with little access to food.
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Yes they do Kate. I think the Fox squirrels plump up more than the others … a few seemed to be waddling around and not so agile coming down the tree headfirst! Michigan is promised a precip-filled La Nina Winter … unfortunately we get our first big snowfall this Monday with 3-6 inches.
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Whoa! Our prediction is for a mild winter with more precip than usual but that may mean 30″ all winter and if it’s mild some comes as rain.
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I like your prediction for Winter … they are mixed about this Monday storm. They say depending on when it comes, how early in the day, it might snow a lot, then turn to rain – ugh if it gets slick like glare ice. I have all my cat litter at the ready for the porch/steps!
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Yup — hungry little butterballs! 🙂
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They sure are Barbara and the squirrels are not so quick on their feet with that extra poundage (er … “ounce-age”) they are carrying around.
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So much the better for them if the winter proves to be long and cold…
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Yes, from all I hear it will be a precip-filled Winter … I’m no fan of snow, but, if I had my druthers, I’d rather it is snow than rain, that becomes freezing rain, that coats utility lines and they fall and no power. This system coming in Monday night could be rain/snow mix, ending as rain … hopefully no freezing rain. I try to keep the squirrels full now because once the snow and ice (especially the ice) are around, my trips are sometimes limited to the weekends, as I will walk in the streets once the sun comes out. I don’t drive if it is icy – no need, except to give the car a run. Sometimes the City plows down there, but not always.
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Wow, your squirrels are a lot fatter than the ones around here. But then I don’t feed them peanuts, either.
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They are pretty fat JP … you’d think I was slipping them Reese peanut butter cups, not peanuts! They get some help from Mother Nature with a layer of fat and thicker fur … it is not all peanuts, even though it would appear so
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They really are butterballs! A bad winter is coming…..
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And most of that extra fat came in the last month! They do get an added fat layer and thicker fur thanks to Mother Nature though.
I’m hearing lots of precip this Winter and sure enough we have 3-6 inches of slushy snow coming on Monday. I’m not happy to hear that in the least.
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They are stocking up for the winter. 🙂
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I think so Sandra! This morning I fed one black squirrel and he debated what to do … eat one, bury a few … he pondered, then took three peanuts in his mouth at one time (I have no idea how he did that) and scurried away, came back two minutes later for nuts to bury. Took ’em home to the wife and kids I am guessing?
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Ha! No wonder they are butterballs – look at all the treats you give them! They will be svelte again by March.
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Yes, it is amazing how fat they got in the last month Laurie. My peanuts helped pack on some ounces, but Mother Nature’s fat layer and heavier fur did too. The Fox squirrels especially are waddling these days and don’t descend the tree at the speed of sound like before! You are correct – they will be svelte again come Spring!
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My goodness, do they eat other squirrels? 😉
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Ha ha – it sure looks like it doesn’t it? They get huge like this every Fall – yours are probably already fat too as Winter is around the corner, but since you only started recently going to the Park, you won’t notice it as much – wait til next year! They waddle when they walk now. Mother Nature gives them a fat layer and heavier fur for Winter … it is not all peanut fat!
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Butterball squirrels! All I can say is gobble-gobble. 😉 I’m positive that they will work of the extra weight during the upcoming months. It takes energy to stay warm even with their furry coats.
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They sure have plumped out Sabine – they are roly-poly, especially the Fox squirrels who are waddling and not as limber to descend trees these days. I feel sorry for them when it is bitter cold outside and snow is all around – I know they sleep all together in one nest to stay warm, but even with the fat and fur they can’t be too warm and comfy.
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Wild animals have a way to make it through the winter. I’m sure it’s tough, but fortunately they have you! 🙂
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Thanks Sabine and I am hoping our milder weather the end of the week will permit a visit down there again on the weekend so I won’t disappoint my favorite critters. I know that Mother Nature makes provisions, so hopefully they have enough fat and stored goodies to make it through this Winter.
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Fingers crossed here for your weather!
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Thank you Sabine and this afternoon I saw the street and sidewalks had melted. Not enough moisture to be a problem as to re-freeze thankfully. It will be really chilly and they have taken flurries out of the forecast, so I hope I can go tomorrow. We have no snow until mid-week next week. Glad for that. I have missed walking. The snow was a dangerous inconvenience. There were several bad accidents from the slick roads the other day.
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Hearing about your weather always makes me glad that it’s mostly mild here in our area.
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I know and the weather is so erratic anymore – we had that snow Monday … the big storm didn’t happen which was fine. All the snow is gone. Today the ice at the Park was all gone – I can wear shoes again tomorrow. We at least have clear weather and no snow again for the next 4-5 days … more walking time (and peanut time).
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somebody must of put twenty bucks in the old mans hat for the squirrels!
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Ha ha – yes Wayne, they look like they’ve been eating lots of dessert and fattening food courtesy of their benefactors. The Fox squirrels especially are fat and are waddling around and descending trees slower than usual.
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I think peanuts have a high fat content? So give them each a container of Planters for the Winter! I can see them each laying in their little lazy boy watching TV and reaching in and grabbing “a” nut!
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Ha ha – Yes, peanuts do have high fat content … but, like peanut butter, it is “good fat”. I’m going to leave them extra peanuts tomorrow and some sunflower seeds too due to that storm on Monday/Tuesday. Supposed to be snow/rain mix Monday a.m., then this snowstorm Monday into Tuesday (oh joy).
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hope that storm weakens so your furry friends don’t have to shovel their tree branches!
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Yes, imagine their shock when they wake up and see it … (although maybe just rain for a few hours then the snow falls like crazy). I warned them today I might be gone a few days.
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you should train them to hop in a dog carrier! They could come home with you! I can see them now running around like furry bullets with you screaming at them not to juggle the fine china!
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A couple of them are starting to warm up to me, but for some reason, there are less Fox squirrels and more black and gray squirrels this year. It has never been that ratio before and they are very skittish and sometimes if they do come close, it’s not like right to my feet, but they dash over for a peanut and run back to safety or up into a tree. Maybe because they are so much smaller than the Fox squirrels.
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Wow they’re so cuddly
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Yes, almost as cuddly as Teddy … probably fatter too!
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Oh yes…pleasingly plump!
Smart to bulk up before the winter cold.
Probably could last the season without eating another bite!
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Ha ha – it certainly looks that way doesn’t it Mary. I walk there daily and seems to me in the course of about 4 weeks they really pack on the ounces, so much so that the Fox squirrels are waddling.
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The first picture is my favorite! Punk rocking kind of squirrel.
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Yes, he looks like a punk rocker with that furry tail all the way to his head! Sometimes their poses really do crack me up!
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Fashionable squirrel! They are so quirky.
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Hi, Linda, I am in the Southwest, and our squirrels never get that big! (Even though we average 100 inches of snow per season.) I love your pictures! 🌞
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Hi Lisa – that is amazing to me that you get 100 inches of snow in the Southwest! We don’t get that much snow (50-60 inches) and last year was great, hardly any snow at all! The squirrels start plumping up around October, but they also get some help from Mother Nature who gives them heavier fur (even some extra fur around their ears) and an extra layer of fat. The Fox squirrels seem to plump up the most and even waddle, but the gray and black squirrels not as much. Thank you for your comment and for following my blog. You’ll see a lot of squirrels. I don’t have any pets, so I spoil them like pets.
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Understood – that’s the way we are with the birds! 🌞
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I got a few birds down there as well – where they are peanuts, there are peanut eaters! 🙂
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