Creatures, Great and Small

Since moving to a small city in Nebraska, I have enjoyed the open space, the flora and fauna. Especially the fauna.

A woodchuck (also known as a groundhog)

Four or five skunk-ettes, scampering nose-to-tail behind their mother, in the grass near my workplace, stripes perfectly aligned…if only I had my camera and wasn’t traveling at 40 miles per hour at the time of sighting!

Wild turkeys and deer, both plentiful and known for their automobile collisions

A badger — a dead one, sadly

Stealthy beavers — I can only see their homes, I confess

Rabbits and chipmunks

Herons and cardinals

Let us not forget the domesticated critters — the sheep, the horses, the ostriches, the goats, the chickens, the peacocks…

Lovely, all of them.

Then there are the excessively large animals. Godzilla, King Kong and their many inflatable friends…they migrate to this habitat every year, shortly before July 4th…