An insert between the butterflies.
A prickly tale about a porcupine who liked to dine on my apple trees.
To see more photos and read the tale . . . please click on the red link below.
There is a new installment to my 'Bestiary' over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens.
There is a new installment to my 'Bestiary' over at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens.
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He's really interesting looking. Do they ever send their quills out at people?
Enjoy your week ~ FlowerLady
Miałaś fantastyczna gościa na swojej jabłoni. Pozdrawiam.
You had a fantastic guest on his apple. Yours.
Carol,
Very cool!! I have never ran into one of these in the wild.. I'd love to heard more about this guy visiting your apples.
What a cool capture...don't mess with him:)
Wow, a porcupine that likes apples; great shot. I have a squirrel that eats my figs, and I am not happy.
Carol~~Your "prickly tale" was fascinating, and thank you for the link. I'm glad your apple tree has been spared this year. And I also hope that the porcupine and family have found other sources of food and are still among us. They are incredible creatures, and I marvel that I know someone who had such a close encounter.
such an amazing looking critter!
warm hug to you~
Hi Carol, i think this is your shortest post, with just one photo. Is there a reason for that? I ahve not been commenting and opening net for already a week, am sick with cough and allergic asthma, and later had food poisoning. I've been sick all through the long weekend and still absent for the next two days. But now I feel better, so already can open the laptop, haha!
I've just seen porcupines in books, we don't have it, it is beautiful. You really have a wonderful collection of diversity in Flower Hill Farm.
Thank you dear readers for your kind words of support. Lorraine a porcupine cannot throw off her quills . . . you have to come into direct contact . . . even to lightly touch and then the quills do indeed come off. Ouch! Dogs have a hard time and if a wild animal gets too many around the mouth . . . so that it cannot eat . . . it will die. Andrea, I am sorry to read that you have been so unwell and hope you are feeling much better today. I want to thank you for alerting me to the fact that this post was not very clear . . . I have added more info to tell you to go to the Native Plants and Wildlife Garden blog for the tale and more photos. Each month I do a new installment on my 'Bestiary' on that fabulous blog that I am honored to be a team member of. The link takes you directly to the article.
This is a short post and you may note that I am not posting very much right now or visiting other blogs . . . I feel so undeserving of any comments here . . . I had to make a choice to blog or not to blog and for now this is the best I can do. To put it simply . . . sitting in front of a computer is not helping me feel better. I am learning how to use software that is similar to working in a darkroom and that added time is taking away from blogging for now.
Beautiful photographs, fantastic animal, I like to admire such views. I am greeting
Amazing, what a lucky thing to have a porcupine in the garden (well, from the wild life point of view...). Carol, I hope that life is treating you well - all the best, Liisa.
I can never look at a photo of a porcupine without remembering the day my 8 year old VERY active grandson and I were on our way down to the Frog Pond. With his sharp eyes he spotted a porcupine who stopped stock still. Rory wanted to know if it lived near by and I said we could watch and see where it went. The frightened porcupine did not move for almost ten minutes, but that boy who was not known for ever being still was also immobile. The porcupine finally moved off and got lost in the underbrush so we never did learn where it lived.
Adorable! Although I might not be quite so charmed if I were that close to those prickly quills.
Thanks for this shot, I rarely see this animal, I also like your butterfly pics, I'm the one that sometimes participates in "Focusing On Wildlife". Nice meeting you.
We don't have porcupines in our part of NC, although we do have plenty of beavers. Such fascinating creatures. Good to hear they're leaving your apple trees alone this year.
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