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It’s actually a long haired Shetland pony.
These two aren’t my own personal pictures but show the true structure of these beautiful creatures.
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They truly are as loveable as could be!
Yes they are ground feeders and so very smart. We have a pair that have been visiting our property for about the last 10 or 12 years. I’m not positive they are the same pair but they seem to be. Cardinals mate for life meaning they have the same partner which I find adorable.
He is so much braver than his mate and has found many ways of getting the seeds off the seed bells and suet feeders even though his body isn’t as adaptable as other songbirds. Persistent though. I love seeing the pair of them. He’s so protective of her. Awwwwww.... it’s so sweet.
Then we have a big black squirrel 🐿 who climbs up my greenhouse, jumps onto the clothes line and shimmies all the feeders together so he can dump the one feeder out. One day I spotted him happily trotting off with an entire bird bell. Cheeky thing so I started putting ties on them. That ended that. Now I send our big watch dogs after him. That’ll teach him
Kaila
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The adult males also directly feed both the female partner, (have you watched them do that?)
and the young as well.
Have you ever seen juvenile male cardinals, there? They look similar to the females but have a dark brown beak.
It's a tough job for we humans, to try to outsmart a squirrel!
Unfortunately I haven’t seen that. She definitely feeds herself and I’ve never had the opportunity to see baby cardinals or at least not recognized them as such.The adult males also directly feed both the female partner, (have you watched them do that?)
and the young as well.
Have you ever seen juvenile male cardinals, there? They look similar to the females but have a dark brown beak.
It's a tough job for we humans, to try to outsmart a squirrel!
Squirrels and raccoons. Their intelligence and dexterity can easily outwit the majority of us.
I’ll never forget trying to outwit a black squirrel at a house we once rented. Nothing we tried deterred this one persistent black squirrel from stealing the bird seed so we had a very long clothes line and put the feeder in the middle of it thinking we had outsmarted him. The next day while eating our breakfast we looked out the window only to see it climbing it’s way over to the feeder. He was hanging off the clothesline arm crossing arm to move himself. At the time we had a shepherd and I considered scaring him off the line and sending her out but I couldn’t. It was tempting though.
Have you ever seen them hanging on to the bottom of a feeder that spins around and around? It’s hilarious.
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Kaila
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We call them Grey squirrels here, not black, though likely they are the same as yours.
We also have the smaller, and far chattier red squirrels, deeper in forest areas.
Have not seen in person, but have previously seen pictures of the grey ones, on those swirling squirrel guards. Yikes!
Once had a feeder suspended from out far across a lone tree branch, attached by a wire, to detract the squirrels,
but those acrobats could get out to the wire, using the thin branch as a balance beam,
and then they could slide themselves carefully down it, grab hold of the feeder, and eat their fill, while hanging from any claw.
However, we noticed that they couldn't successfully climb back UP it. without sliding
so they were then forced to leap off and twist their bodies in mid-air, reaching, groping, and hoping to find something to grab onto, but ending up safely landing on the ground, with an uncharacteristically ungraceful thump.
Sometimes, just a short time later, the same one was ready to go back the same route, for another feed !
Now raccoons, I wouldn't even try to outsmart one of them!
They come complete with every tool they could possibly use, for untying any knot that humans have devised, and for disassembling any human contraption/invention!
We also have the smaller, and far chattier red squirrels, deeper in forest areas.
Have not seen in person, but have previously seen pictures of the grey ones, on those swirling squirrel guards. Yikes!
Once had a feeder suspended from out far across a lone tree branch, attached by a wire, to detract the squirrels,
but those acrobats could get out to the wire, using the thin branch as a balance beam,
and then they could slide themselves carefully down it, grab hold of the feeder, and eat their fill, while hanging from any claw.
However, we noticed that they couldn't successfully climb back UP it. without sliding
so they were then forced to leap off and twist their bodies in mid-air, reaching, groping, and hoping to find something to grab onto, but ending up safely landing on the ground, with an uncharacteristically ungraceful thump.
Sometimes, just a short time later, the same one was ready to go back the same route, for another feed !
Now raccoons, I wouldn't even try to outsmart one of them!
They come complete with every tool they could possibly use, for untying any knot that humans have devised, and for disassembling any human contraption/invention!
katlupe
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Keesha, I just saw this thread this morning! Thank you for sharing your amazing pictures! Love them all. I especially love the horse and fall photos, but they are all beautiful. You live in a beautiful place.
Thank you katlupe. I really appreciate that you liked them also. It’s something I’m better at contributing here at the site than sharing my ‘thoughts’
Pecos
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I am not sure that I agree with you. I find that your way of looking at things is quite interesting.Thank you katlupe. I really appreciate that you liked them also. It’s something I’m better at contributing here at the site than sharing my ‘thoughts’
Oh you’re too kind. Thank you.
