Category Archives: Wildlife

Outdoor Decorations

They look like Christmas ornaments all hung on the trees, don’t they? The egrets are either roosting, or getting their families together for the holidays. Every afternoon, they all fly over and hang out here until it gets dark, maybe longer. I can’t see whether they are still there or not because, well, it’s dark....

I Can’t Decide…

Is this cute, or just plain creepy? We have armadillos, and they are tearing up our yard, so we are trying to trap them and move them far, far away. It isn’t working. We’ve caught one bunny, and this little guy. Ok, I’ve decided. Possums are just plain creepy.

Mom & Dad’s Hummingbirds

My parents have a couple hummingbird feeders in their yard right outside the window by their kitchen table. Christian, Jackson and I went over to their house this afternoon to see them and to try to take some pictures. Those are fast little boogers! Christian is the only kid I know that has caught a...

Snakes and All

There are so many cool things about where we live. We are in South Mississippi, on a bayou, and although we are in a subdivision, it’s somewhat out and undeveloped. We see all kinds of animals at our house. We have deer that come and eat corn in our backyard if the raccoons haven’t gotten...