Scavenger Hunt

This week should have been easy to do the scavenger hunt.  The words were: three, hand(s), fence cuddly and sign. I really struggled with it though.  Here’s my best efforts.

Three:  We have two sets of triplets running around right now.  I think Sugar did a pretty good job of wrangling her babies for a photo shoot.  She also is the winner of the Best Mom award for actually raising all three on her own.

Litha’s kids are all over the place.  That’s kind of how they are all the time.  They have, um, well, a lot of personality.

Hand:  This is Litha’s boy, Robbie.  He likes to give me a hand whenever I’m feeding Reva her bottle.  To keep him for pushing his sister around, I usually give him a hand in turn and scratch between his horns for him.

Think he likes it?

Cuddly:  Coral is my sweet cuddly girl.  She has been from the moment she was born.  It’s looking like she didn’t get bred last winter.  That’s good.  I didn’t want her bred after having the C-section last year, but I put her in with Fionn for about two weeks, and it was possible she could have been bred.

Here’s another shot for cuddly.  Muffin (mom in back) and Jelly (daughter in front) are always curled up together to sleep.  Goats are really neat because they maintain those great family bonds for their whole lives.

Fence:  Another bird shot.  I really seem to be turning into a bird blog.  I have no idea what this one is, but it was flying along the fence just in front of me for quite some distance.

Sign:  I mentioned that I wanted to try and switch bird foods to attract some goldfinches.  I think this is a pretty good sign that my plan worked.

At one point there were three males and two females all out there at the same time.

I hope you all have a great week!

Linking to Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Macro Monday, I Heart Macro, and Monday Mellow Yellows.

Another Scavenger Hunt

The topics for this week’s scavenger hunt are:  perspective, golden, bloom, dark and local.

Perspective:  I’m so glad that my cherry tree is loaded with lots of blossoms, and they are just starting to open up.  Hopefully we’ll have a good year for cherries and apples, and I’ll be making a lot of wine this fall!

This is the wild plum blossoms.

Golden:  My favorite time to go outside and take pictures is in the golden light of evening.  It’s perfect, even if it is sometimes more orange than gold.

Minnie Pearl

Millie

Bloom:  My peach tree is blooming.  Well, there’s about ten or so blossoms on it.

Dark:  My beautiful MJ is about as dark as they come.  Soon the longer days will bleach him out to a dark brown color.  As round as Maxine is looking, I need to move them off that alfalfa to the Back Forty.  The trees need to get some leaves first though.

MJ and Maxine

Local:  This is one of the local residents in my Back Forty.  This little fellow was enjoying a drink in the drainage ditch.

Then he saw me.

He went back to his tree.

He decided to just get comfy in the tree and wait for me to move on.

Linking to Scavenger Hunt Sunday, Weekly Top Shot, Macro Monday, Mandarin Orange Monday, and Monday Mellow Yellows.

Avian Scavenger Hunt

The topics for Scavenger Hunt Sunday this week are:  background, spotted or dots, weather, motion, and sweet.  I found birds for all of them!  Obviously, these were taken a day or so before our snowstorm.

Background:  I love the little red-bellied woodpecker, and s/he gave me quite a variety of backgrounds during our little photo shoot.

Spotted or dots:  I think the downy woodpecker is perfect for spotted!

Weather:  I took all these pictures before our winter weather returned.  It was beautiful walking through the pasture and listening to all the birds.  I don’t know what this one is, but the song was beautiful!

Motion:  I didn’t do a good job of actually catching the motion, but you can see the robin was certainly on the move.

Sweet:  I can’t resist the sweet blue jay looking at me like that.  Go ahead and eat the dog food.

I’m also using the blue jay for my contribution to Shadow Shot Sunday 2.  I’m also linking to Bird d’Pot, Camera Critters, Mosaic Monday, and Macro Monday.