Copious Gratis Edibles ...

Out on the back deck we have a bird feeder hanging from the BBQ, it is a favourite feeding location for a number of Dark-Eyed Juncos who can easily fly in, pick up some nuts and fly out again.

Recently the resident Squirrel has been watching all this activity, she has been carefully analyzing the fly in and fly out operation, and the severe lack of access for her to the bird feeder. Finally with some obvious analytic and lateral thinking together with a watchful eye on me, she cracked it.

Below in photographs is the complete thought process ~

OK, from inside the BBQ I have a better view of the bird feeder and the situation …

Now if I jump onto the gas hose, I can get a little closer …

I have to be careful to not fall off …

I’ll just turn the bird feeder around …

Let's go ...

That was easy ...

OK, let’s go again with slight change in the technique …

Hurry up with the photo, I can't hold this pose and smile forever ... ...

Numéro deux, this is soooooo easy ….

Meanwhile a little later from the front deck, a variety of feathered tax write-offs (Oh I wish …), were enjoying Copious Gratis Edibles ….

Sitting out front ….

During the warmest part of this day, I took a break from whatever I normally be doing and sat out at the front of the house with my camera, trying out some of its features.

I have had this “new” camera since August of last year and amazingly I am still learning about it. Perhaps it is more accurate to say ~ some of the “learning” is actually “relearning” of features I read about and tried before, but have since forgotten. 

You can see ~ My journey with cameras ... ~ at ..

https://southshoretidewatch.blogspot.com/2022/08/i-recently-to-dig-deep-into.html

The pics below are random close ups of what is currently flowering in the garden along with two visitors watching me watching them .....

First beach wander since …..

….. we had all that rain three days ago, see ~

“We were almost an island ...!!!!” ~

https://southshoretidewatch.blogspot.com/2023/07/we-were-almost-island.html

With the tide coming in I took a wander on both Rissers and Crescent Beaches and the Rissers boardwalk. Unlike some of the devastation some folks are suffering with flooded basements and collapsed driveways, together with the general mess left behind by higher-than-normal and overflowing lakes and rivers, everything seemed to be in good order on the beaches. I did notice the sand levels were much higher, perhaps around three feet or so and the surrounding greenery was very green for this time of the year.

Apart from that, it was good, fine and as usual better than my last beach wander ………

We were almost an island ...!!!!

While the rest of the planet appears to be drying up and suffering under daily record-breaking temperatures, here in the South Shore of Nova Scotia, we are slowly submerging under lots and lots and LOTS of rain.

Apart from the occasional day with bright warm weather, this summer has very much been a total washout, I have never seen much rain. For a Scotsman who spent the first 26 years of his life in Scotland, that is indeed a unique and bold statement. Even when I lived on the Bay of Biscay in Northern Spain, an area notable for excessive rainfall, I never saw as much water falling from the sky as I have done this summer and in such an aggressive manner.

Today we had rain falling all day, it was relentless, persistent, unforgiving and came down so fast and heavy it was bouncing off the grass.

At one point this afternoon, we were not far from being completely surrounded by water ~ We were almost an island ...!!!!

Early misty morning wander …

I was up early and out for a misty wander down to the Lahave River.

As I stood there in the perfect morning silence the mist was getting progressively thicker, making the diffused sunlight only a spot in the featureless sky.