Tag: The Wild

The Quickness of Charlie

Hurry Hurry Hurry
He’s late he’s late he’s late
For a very important date date date.

The quickness of The Wild fascinates me.

Ever attempted to fake out an animal?

It’s not easy because succumbing to trickery often means death in The Wild.

I took pride (long ago) in being able to move faster than my dog (at the time) could follow.

I could “fake him out.”

Probably because he’s domesticated, lived a good, comfortable, secure life, and never had to worry about something considering him a dainty morsel.

I can sometimes move faster than raccoons can follow. The older raccoons, anyway.

And that was when I was younger, too.

 

Charlie grabs a peanut, Felice sits on her Butt

They gather.
From woods, from glens, from treetops and burrows.
They gather.
Some climb, some crawl, some burrow, some scurrow.
They gather.
The cornucopia appears and nothing is questioned.
They gather.
To feast, to dine, to munch, to mind.
They gather.
Each year the cycle continues, the cycle completes.
They gather.
Not counting as as other, as threat.
They gather.
And take, and give, without asking,
Because answers are few
And survival is all.
They gather

 

Chowing Down at Chez Carrabis

Sometimes The Wild blesses us in ways unexpected.

Here we have an example.

Food placed in trays for raccoons is snarfed up by birds.

All sorts of birds.

Okay, not pterodactyls.

Okay, pterodactyls are not birds.

Bird wannabees, maybe?

Bird forerunners.

Yeah, that’s better. Bird forerunners.

Doesn’t matter, really.

Except I’d rather have trays full of birds than pterodactyls.

(but imagine the videos that’d make…)

 

Her Kingdom for a TV Remote

Sometimes The Wild reminds us that couch potatoes are a type of many, not just Two-Leggers.

Here we have a prime example of couch potating(?).

Here we have a prime example of couch potatoing(?).

Here we have a prime example couching the potato…

Okay, these are getting worse. Let’s return to something neat and clean.

Here we have a raccoon desperately in need of a remote.

 

The Young One

Depending on time of year…

And animal species…

Children abound.

Some are four legged, some are feathered.

Some slither and dither.

The Wild is particular about birthing young.

Generally, it likes young to have Spring through Fall to fatten, to prepare for Winter.

There are many strategies involved.

One which is not closely tied to seasons is Rabbit. Rabbit’s strategy is to have a lot of young and often.

But Rabbit doesn’t do a great job of mothering. Births occur in the open and young are left unattended while parents forage.

Not so with Brother and Mother Coyote.

Coyote protects her children fiercely.

Except around me and mine.

Somehow, we are known to be safe.

For which we’re glad.