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In the mornign at 10:30, green apple trees and snow!



Hazels are still green.

At 9:00 today morning. It has been a frosty night, about -3.

The dusting of snow on the greenery is so pretty!

Yes, it was. This is a very special fall be cause there are still green leaves on the trees. But the squirrel behind my window eating nuts is changing his fur from reddish brown to gray

10th October, brown!




16th October - I believe it is the same squirrel!

My pictures are no of the highest level.. but..



the next second:

your squirrel is just lovely and you can really see the fur is gray on the back...so the winter is still coming

One of our neighbours tells us we have a squirrel in our garden. That was end of Sept. but we have never seen it ?
About the same time but 4am we heard a great 'screaming' from a bird or animal,several times As we were at the open window upstairs we saw a creature.......coming from one garden,along the pavement and into another garden.
We are intruiged.!! It was slightly smaller than a cat,long body,dark coloured with a long bushy tail. ?? A ferret,squirell or marten,maybe ? Maybe its our "OLD" friend the Pine Marten? but we haven't seen him for about 18 yrs.
We haven't asked the neighbours,as one,we know,puts out traps.!to protect his chickens. esp.since I told him years ago that I saw a fox walking 'round the corner,on the road and the traps came out then.!!
we live in an urban environnment with individual housing and gardens.
Any ideas ?

Carmel, we live in an urban area, too, with lots of trees. About 3 years ago there was a tremendous noise from the top of a tree. It was a squirrel, maybe protecting young. The screaming and almost barking noise went on for ages. Squirrels make a lot of noise when they are excited or angry, so maybe yours was a squirrel, too.

A martin and a squirrel might explain what you saw and what you heard.

I have lots of grey and black squirrels - they tell each other off if they think one is getting more food than the other. They can be very noisy little things and they do chatter and screech. Here they are considered vermin, but I like them as they always seem cheerful and they do amazing acrobatics!

Thank you for info. on squirrels.
That may be the answer..the noise did seem to be coming from the top of a huge fir tree up the road. Would they have little ones so late ?i.e. Late September.
(I'll go and look up The Life and Loves of Squirrels. )
edit;
Found it and put in 'Other Birds and Animals'
Listened and the sound was like a squirrel Jo, just a whole lot angrier. (or scared)

But I am wondering if what you heard was squirrel dealing with the martin you saw.

That may be the answer Alice and what we saw was the Martin running away ? Got a good telling off too.!!

It has been quite cloudy days. The dark pictures are taken in the afternoon yesterday at 17:00. The sky was more gray, but the camera program has made it lighter than it should be.

There are some flowers still (Dasiphora fructicosa 'Lovely pink')!

Snow! 19th October at 9:30

Those are nice pics, Olga. Pretty! Is it very cold, yet?

At 12:00 the snow had vanished. Fall is late and snow too early.
It was +5C at 14:00, and now, at 20:00. -1C.

At last has the big aspen turned yellow, the 20th October at 16:00



A view from the living room window.



I dead spruse just behind the fence.

There are still some flowers in the garden, the 20th October:

20th October in the garden. One more flower and my other dog in his favorite resting place to the left from the flower. I have to check later what is the name of the reddish flower in English.



He is 15 years old!

Olga, if you find out the name of that flower, please tell me. I have some lime tree leaf pics, and those flowers are included!