The defiant and unappreciative look on this little Pygmy Nuthatch seems to beg such a title...

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Been doing the Shelter in Place thing. I read something the other day that said "February had 29 days, (leap year) March 300 days and April has been 5 years long.
Anyway, one of the big Douglas firs in the neighborhood died last winter and the tree people took it out today so I had more than enough to keep me entertained.
He had to climb this tree to the top the first time through the branches to put his rigging up. This pink rope hangs from it and allows them to guide sawed off branches to a safe place on the ground.
Then he went up this tree taking out the branches as you see all the way up to about an 8" top. Then he climbed the tree next to it to hang his rigging off it, came back to this tree and cut the top out of it and then cut it down about 3' at a time all the way to the ground. I can imagine that he'll sleep well tonight.
When he got the first couple of 3 foot chunks cut out of the trunk he pulled his 36" Stihl up which would have been a days work for me by itself.

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Shore Acres is the place to be in a winter storm on the Oregon Coast. This is by no means the biggest wave seen yesterday but I liked the lighting on the wave and the explosion of the wave. For scale you can see the people on the right side of the picture.

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I never did quite get the "McGruff" crime dog add as most the dogs I ever owned were probably guilty of multiple crimes. While this shot lacks a good background, I've rarely had a porcupine relaxed enough to go on eating while I was nearby.

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Just putting this shot up to piggy-back a recent shot my wife took of a pair of Beavers. We knew that beaver were territorial and that they wander in the spring. We just didn't realize how no nonsense they were about their territorial disputes. The younger beaver in the water came upon this older beaver checking out his scent marker. While many creatures will bellow or scream before the fight, this was all business and very quickly the old fellow was sent packing.

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