We promised wildlife. Here is some. It's not large wildlife: we saw a bunny in the yard last night, but it was after dark, and he scurried away. The possum, which we hotly desire to film, also only comes out under cover of darkness. The other night, we saw him out back, waddling sedately along by the wall, his pale snout illuminated briefly in the floodlights from the municipal parking lot. A moment later, he returned: moving with surprising speed in the opposite direction. We also heard Scout, the neighbour's Jack Russell, barking furiously. He must have caught the scent of possum.

We're working on learning that infrared business. In the meantime, you will have to be contented with chipmunks and birdies.

Most of our bird feeder visitors are sparrows. This isn't surprising: we have the kind of food they like, kind of like a specialty restaurant. What is surprising is that they aren't all Little Brown Jobs. The sparrow family can be multicoloured, did you know that? Take a look at these brightly-coloured fellows.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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