No, no! I lurve the trees in silhouette, at the bottom.
And yes, that is one supremely fluffy tail.
The fox was very bold. He walked up to me, and I yelled at him to get him to move along. I like foxes, and think they are cute, but I worry about wild animals that are overly friendly and unafraid of humans.
Looked out my window to see this spectacular cloud:
Hummingbird Thunderdome is in full force this morning. I counted five of them fighting over the feeder. The victor had driven the rest away before I could get my phone out to snap a photo. He’s now guarding his prize, but I can hear the other contestants squeaking at him.
Them birds are vicious.
Less spectacular, but with a little story. I was on my allotment the other day, working in my polytunnel, when I felt something on my hand. I looked down and this little fella, who had managed to trap him/herself in the polytunnel, had landed on me.
Allotments are noted as the last resting place for useful things, like, oh, I dunno, the bottom half of a soda bottle. That’s what I used to rescue it. My phone photo app tells me that it’s a Speckled Wood. Pretty.
j
So apparently it is coyote month for me. Vastly lucky enough to run into a full-throttle, life-or-death, go-for-broke race the other day. Pictures snapped towards the end of the run when they had stopped chaotically zigzagging through tall grass. They are miserably out of focus, but I think they are still cool. At least to me 
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I missed the actual denouement in the distance behind a huge, dense blackberry bramble. But I got to witness the loser trudging back the other way. They looked very tired:
Great pictures! I know coyotes gotta eat, but I’m glad the prey in this case escaped.
I saw a huge flock of birds wheeling in the sky. By the time I was able to get my camera and come back, it was almost dusk, and the birds were mostly roosting, but I found out where they are hanging out. Must have been almost 100 Turkey vultures.
These birds are amazing! There is a trail in our area that leads up to a rocky ridge that looks over the city and the Lake Superior bay. One day, around this time of year we were up there and saw many, many turkey vultures soaring through the air, riding on the wind currents. Sometimes they were so close, we could almost touch them. It was such a peaceful feeling watching them.
You can get some idea of how many there were by playing “count the vulture.”
This was only one of two trees they were roosting in, and only a small part of the tree:
Those are great photos. You can see in both animals how hard they’re running.
That pic is the embodiment of “Aw, dammit.”
Vultures get such a bad rep. One of my favorite stuffed animals as a child was a vulture.
Yeah, fantastic photos @Tamerlane !
This is much more sedate. Around this time last year I noted that it was a remarkable year for wild hops. Well, this year too, it seems.
But here’s the thing: the two summers could hardly have been more different. Last year was cold, miserable and rainy; this year hot and really, really dry.
Go (as they used to say) figure.
j
X marks the Deer:
That looks very …meaningful, somehow! 
This is me, wearing a wee squirrel. Someone took it away from the stray cat that we feed at our office. It’s hard to say if it was hurt, but it had a bare spot on its back and didn’t seem inclined to move about much. So we put it up in the crook of a tree and were going to leave it there, but a while later I walked by and the cat was after it again! So I retrieved it and we called a rehab. Hopefully there will be a happy ending.
Cute squirkle. Hope he’s OK.
Calls to mind one of @Darren_Garrison 's classic AI images:
He seemed to fancy himself more of a brooch!
Not a pterodactyl?
Maybe he’ll make something of himself one day. 