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It’s been a week of lovely sunsets

Whipped these up during my lunch hour using up some left over whipping cream, Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Mousse. Took 5 minutes to make. Dessert for Friday dinner treat ✔️ Ingredients: whipping cream, powdered peanut butter, melted chocolate, brown sugar, pure vanilla. Delicious

Wednesday’s gorgeous painted skies from the newly reopened White Rock Pier. I love how watching the sunset and skies dim to twilight can reset our…

Such gorgeous autumn colours ! ❤️ Townsend’s Chipmunk

How I love autumn hues and tones

“Hello little one. My, you are brave and curious aren’t you.” .
Species: Townsend’s Chipmunk

Early autumn brings young adult animals out to begin foraging in order to survive winter. Juvenile wildlife tend to be more bold and/or curious, making sighting them entertaining and fun. They’re feverishly foraging and seeking out their buried food at the same time, so preoccupied that they don’t seem to care who’s around, except for dogs it seemed. I squatted down to watch this young one do his/her thing, then it stopped to come up to me to check me out, getting to less than a foot away from me. I was amazed. Yes I was holding still, but wow still. And I did talk to him/her as I do to all creatures and things alive. Lol.
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Please remember to respect wildlife with how you choose to interact and treat their habitat. Be sure to consider if your actions may habituate them causing harm later on, after you leave their presence

One cheeky chickadee. A chestnut-backed Chickadee perched on my hand, studying me, while I studied it. Gratitude for these special moments

A surprise visitor, a Red-Breasted Nuthatch.

I was out feeding the chickadees and surprised to have a couple of Red-breasted Nuthatches swoop in to feed from my hand as well. The pair was vocal while feeding, so it was a treat to hear them call and sing up close. One would swoop in, grab a seed it liked, fly back to the large conifer tree nearby to eat, then call, and swoop back in. Def. more dominant than both Black Capped and Chestnut-backed Chickadees as they gave way to the nuthatches. —— Early autumn brings young adult animals out to begin foraging in order to survive winter. Juvenile wildlife tend to be more bold and/or curious, making sighting them entertaining and fun.
Please remember to respect wildlife with how you choose to interact and treat their habitat. Be sure to consider if your actions may habituate them causing harm later on, after you leave their presence. —-
Best seeds to feed are Black Oil Sunflower with shells or shelled sunflower bird feed seeds, wholesome without seasoning or additives. I like to use with shells as it is most natural, where they would normally forage and do the work to unshell to eat the seed