Who knew squirrels liked strawberries and tomatos?

It was a good day for pictures.

It's been raining all week which makes it hard to take wildlife pictures. There was still lots of wildlife around, but there's just not enough light to take pictures through a telephoto lens (even with optical image stabilization at ISO 3200). Here's a couple that turned out.

I also saw three white-tailed deer in my backyard, a buck, a doe, and a fawn. That's the first time I've ever seen deer in this area. I didn't have my camera, though.

The picture turned out terribly. I need a camera phone with a telephoto lens.

All taken from my home office. Click the thumbnails to make them bigger. For more pictures, visit my photo album.

I got a response to the bird I posted yesterday... soo... Anyone know what this bird is?

I like photography, but I don't like classifying birds, so I appreciate the help. This is definitely a female, because the male (who I haven't been able to shoot) is bright yellow.

Anyone know what kind of bird this is? It was on my birdfeeder this morning.

I got up early this morning and saw a racoon searching through my backyard for food. I've only seen a racoon one other time in the two years that I've lived here. That's actually a good thing, because they're nocturnal, and shouldn't be out and about during the day. My wife is paranoid that they're rabid if they're searching for food at daylight. For pictures I took the last time, visit http://www.northrup.org/photos/racoon/. I'll get around to posting the new (lousy) picture on that page eventually.

I took about a dozen pictures this time, but none of them turned out well. I didn't have time to go outside, so I just took a few pictures through my screen window. They were all washed out, which happens if you shoot through a screen, so I adjusted the levels with MS Digital Image Pro, and then cropped it down so the racoon is more visible in the picture. Well, it's still a terrible pic, you can definitely tell what the animal is.