Spring and the Critters are Busy...

It's rainy and stormy this morning but I noticed the past couple of days that every cow I have seen was standing up. That means the fish are biting and as soon as this weather passes I'm out there trying to catch them. Yesterday after work I sat on the back deck and watched how busy my local critters were. 

I guess this generation of squirrels have grown up loud guitars and tubas blaring so not much bothers them. These two were busy cutting and eating little fresh green leaf sprigs on a tree by the deck. I don't know what kind of tree it is, probably could easily be considered an invasive or a trash tree but I guess it is tasty and these squirrels seemed big and fat.  

I was trying but I never could get a photo of the upside down hang eating technique. There was another squirrel out from with some kind of project of his or her own in a cedar tree. 

At the same time three of these guys showed up in my neighbors pasture. They were about 50 yards off the deck and all the squirrel action. Like everyone else in town the one on the right says, "Is that that tuba guy?"