Street Legal

I just spent an hour and a half or so at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The dreaded RMV.

My drivers license expired on my birthday, two days ago. I needed to renew it (which could be done online) and I also needed to upgrade to the stupid fascist federal RealID card bullshit (which could not be done online). I had an appointment for 3:30 so I was able to get into the office, but the lines were long and I didn’t actually get into to do my business until around 4:30. Once I was at the window though it went off without a hitch.

When I got home, there was a visitor standing next to our driveway.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54509381147/in/datetaken/

#BackYardWildKingdom #driversLicense #iphoneography #Massachusetts #photography #realId #realid #registryOfMotorVehicles #rmv #turkey

Bird

One of the cats was sitting in the window next to my desk, just watching the goings on in the backyard. All of a sudden she FREAKED OUT and ran away. A few minutes later I noticed this:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54466313014

Coincidence?

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What Are They Looking At

There were two turkeys right outside the window. One of them kept puffing up its feathers and making all sorts of noise.

The cats sat in front of the open window, about 10 feet from these gigantic birds…

and their attention was absolutely NOT drawn to it at all. They were looking off to the left when the turkey was sitting off to the right. What were the cats staring at so intently? What was holding their attention? I don’t know. I saw a squirrel run past from that direction, but they didn’t move their heads to follow it. They just kept staring in that same direction. There has to be something out there that is fascinating them.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54460610760/in/datetaken/

#BackYardWildKingdom #Cat #iphoneography #Kitty #lily #photography #robin

Overkill

I feel like I over did it a smidge.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54454343705/in/datetaken/

#backYardBirdFeeder #BackYardWildKingdom #birdFeeder #iphoneography #photography

Baffle

I saw how the squirrels are getting around the anti-squirrel baffle I have on my bird feeder rig. I looked out the window just in time to see one of those little rodent pricks simply jump over it. I had been trying to imagine some complicated method they were using to thwart my defenses and it was just an athletic little sucker jumping really high. Asshole.

I went outside and raised it up quite a bit. Hopefully that will be enough. We’ll see.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54425291235/in/datetaken/

#backyardBirdFeeders #BackyardWildKingdom #birdFeeder #iphoneography #photography #squirrel

Dinner Time

I filled the bird feeders this morning before I started work. Look at me just ringing that dinner bell for all of the birds. Also for the squirrels. I’ve seen one little bastard get around my anti-squirrel baffle. I don’t know how the little shit managed it but now I need to invest in a gun*.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54415670020/in/datetaken/

*I am kidding. I am not planning on shooting any squirrels. If there is a zombie apocalypse and I need to eat squirrels to survive then I reserve the right to change my stance. Until then, however, I will just hate those little rodent fuckers from afar.

#backyardBirdFeeders #BackyardWildKingdom #bird #birdFeeder #birds #photography

We had a visitor in the back yard.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53911405927/in/datetaken/

I opened the window so I could take a picture and the cats came-a-runnin’.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53912542563/in/datetaken/

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53912647019/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/09/animals/

#BackyardWildKingdom #Cat #Deer #Kitty #lily #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photography #robin #z5

Our back yard visitors from the other day left a present.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/20/you-turkey-10/

#365 #365Challenge #BackyardWildKingdom #iphoneography #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #turkey

That’s a joke that never gets old.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/18/you-turkeys-3/

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The weather held long enough for me to cook dinner on the grill. Jen marinated some chicken and I cooked it. I consulted The Google to know how long to cook it and the suggestion I went with was much too short a time, but I rolled with it and it looks good now.

The whole time I was outside, I had this cat up at the top of a tree eyeing me.

He or she was sitting in that spot when I first went out to turn on the grill, and he or she was still there when I packed up and went back inside about half an hour later.

You could say that he or she was watching me… watching me like a hawk.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/04/watching-me-like-a/

#BackyardWildKingdom #bird #chickenOnTheGrill #cookout #gasGrill #hawk #Holiday #iphoneography #photography #predator #raptor