Wildlife out the window

I was looking out the window wondering what I could write about today when a topic hopped into view.

That's an eastern cottontail, which is a bit different from the ravaging hordes of rabbits I'm used to in New Zealand.  For one thing, it isn't in a ravaging horde.  For another it isn't at all afraid of humans - hence it was happy to sit outside the window while I took its picture.  Last summer I often had a bunny companion on the lawn while using the grill (or barbecue as I used to call it before I discovered real barbecue). 

Of course they aren't a pest here, except perhaps to vegetable gardens, and there are too few of them to cause much trouble even there.  They like the morning and evening best, but they are out all day like this one, taking the afternoon air.

There are other differences, too.  They are a bit squatter and have shorter ears than the rabbits I'm familiar with, and they don't burrow apparently.  All in all they are just another cute furry critter.

The critters are out in force today.  The chipmunk has learned how to get at our bird feeder, so he's having a field day.  One of the squirrels that visits regularly, that we though was a he, turns out to be a very pregnant she and has been asking for more nuts now that she's eating for up to seven.  The birds are about, too.  Blue jays and wrens are after the nuts.  Finches, sparrows and cardinals are eating seed from the feeder.  Robins are scratching on the lawn, and I even saw a woodpecker poking around in the grass.  It's like a Disney movie out there!