Squirrel Proof

The blue and yellow seed house is supposed to be squirrel proof--but it is squirrel proof only in the sense that it provides proof that there are squirrels!

Picture taken by Fox Burdett, edited by Chris Burdett

Sunbathing Squirrel

This guy has been taking a nap/sunbathing on our back deck for a while now.

Rabbit in the Rain

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I posted these pictures, among the first I took after Anna and I moved into our Loganville house, on the date shown above, and added them to the family blog version of Planet Burdett on November 19, 2017.

The Planet Burdett Backyard: Birds and Squirrels Aplenty

Our Friends in the Backyard

There are twenty species of birds that visit our backyard, most of which I see regularly -- pretty much every day, in fact. The Eastern Gray Squirrel is the only species of squirrel I've actually seen, but there are probably Southern Flying Squirrels nearby, too; they just happen to be nocturnal, while I am diurnal.

Here are a few pictures of the Planet Burdett backyard wildlife:

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Tufted Titmouse

Sparrow

Blue Jay

Northern Cardinal (female)

Northern Cardinal (male)

Dark-Eyed Junco

Red-wing Blackbird

(juvenile male, I think—he doesn't yet have his red bars)

Mourning Dove

Eastern Gray Squirrel

(lounging on one of our peanut feeders)

Technical Details:

I took all of these pictures with an Olympus Camedia E-10 digital camera with a 200mm lens (in 35mm-equivalent focal length, that is), when possible (that is, when I set up in advance) mounted on a tripod. Shutter speeds and aperture settings vary by situation. In many cases, I use PhotoShop Element's "fill-flash" enhancement to bring out some of the details, but I've done no other digital manipulation. Each of these pictures has been cropped to focus on the subject; in other words, I wasn't really that close to the titmouse when I took her picture.

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I created this post back in 2003 for the old Planet Burdett Web site, and imported into this version on November 13, 2017.

The Baby Titmouse Fledges!

Here are some pictures of the baby Titmouse on what is I believe its first day out of the nest:

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I posted these pictures to the old version of Planet Burdett back in 2003, and added it to the family blog version of the site on November 17, 2017. When Anna and I lived in Lawrenceville, back then in 2003, I used to take a lot of pictures of the birds in our backyard.