LENS-ARTISTS CHALLENGE #225 – Wildlife Close to Home

(Anne leads.)

“Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing” by The Troggs

“Here on this mountaintop, oh-oh-oh
I got some wild, wild life
I got some news to tell you, oh-oh
About some wild, wild life” by The Talking Heads

Ever the tongue-in-cheeker that I am, I had to start with the following photo, not really too wild, and obviously at least captured in harness if not totally domesticated, but she was close to home:

The following red-tailed rascal hawk was perched on the suburban roof of my previous home. One of it’s ilk dive-bombed me when I came out the back door, but thankfully veered off before sinking talons in my skull, likely when it saw I was too large to be carried away.

“Lucky ladybug, lucky ladybug!
A lucky ladybug!” by Billy and Lillie

Still part of the animal kingdom, and close to home on my patio table, always a welcome visitor:

At a trailhead a short drive from home, this Red-winged Blackbird perched on a friends car and was very vocal, perhaps talking to its own image in the car window. When we returned from our hike an hour+ later, there it was, vocalizing!

Still close to home, at a local park, this member of a family of regularly resident owls was high up, watching us watching it:

A bit further afield, but still in Colorado, I conclude with what I always thought was a pika, but I now think is a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel:

Continue to be kind to everything and everyone. Stay wild.

 

 

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