Feathered Friday - With Fluffy Critters

Here is a cardinal and some other fluffy critters for this #featheredfriday

The gloomy rainy days of late winter make the cardinals really pop out in the forest.

They seemed happy it is getting much warmer. This one has a bit of something in its beak, maybe a red spider mite?

Now here it is leaping up the branch, pretty funny hovering technique.

Now its off to eat some seeds from last year. I also saw quite a few blue jays but they were to high up in the tree and looked just like a silhouette.

Later on I saw a nice healthy coyote. Quite camouflage in the fallen leaves. To get it to look at the camera I made a wounded rabbit squeak noise and it worked like a charm.

Meanwhile the squirrels were all up in the trees eating walnuts. I'm sure the coyote would love to get its jaws on one of these guys for breakfast.

Here's an orange version of the same fox squirrel. I think it thought I was challenging it for territory as I was imitating its barking noise to get it to look at the camera. One of these days I'll meet a brazen one that will fight me as I bark at it for better shots.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)