Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry

Chevy, who was was said to look like a 57 Chevy by Bruce, and christened so by Vista, came by for a few nuts.

Chevy was inspecting the nut bowl while keeping both eyes on me, almost took a walnut, but decided to go for the ones on the balcony.

What an eating machine

The black scamp with the mange seems to be on the mend like the red squirrel.  It looks like the hair is growing back as the winter fur is shed.

This squirrel visits the balcony more often than any of the others.  If he is challenged, he runs off, but comes back the moment he has a chance. He also remains in camera view while he eats.  I’m sure all of the scamps know who’s putting on the feed, but this one is a little more relaxed in front of me.

Here are some stills I took.

Here are a couple of videos.

Eating Machine

Eating a Walnut

Friggen Woodpecker

He’s a nice enough looking bird, but he’s made his desire to get some of the nuts I put out a pain in the ass.  My ass.  I don’t mind his persistence, it’s not as bad as the squirrels.

What pisses me off is his technique. We bought a third palm that we set out.  It’s bigger than the other two.  I placed walnuts in the center of it for a little protection and to slow the scamps down.

In the afternoon I heard some noise comming from the balcony and looked out.  The damn Woodpecker had pecked off two of the  branches and was working on  a  third.  His solution to getting the walnuts was to knock the branches off the palm. That takes care of me putting nuts in until I can figure something out.  A few shots of the pest. 

Two toned fur

We have had two days of sun.  I was able to mow the grass and do some yard work.  And provide a few nut to the visitors.

Now that the mange is going away this scamp has a new two toned look. Red and blonde.

The brown scamp didn’t let a little rain stop him

He is a character.  He enjoys the shelled hazels when he can get them.

Rain off an on

Too much rain lately, but that is better than snow.

This scamp came by for a shelled hazel.  After making a selection he looked into the room.  He may have been thinking it was a dry place to eat, but decided no to come in.