Today's Awesome Nature Encounters at the Park

Today was pretty awesome.  We spent most of the day at the park admiring the wildlife.  The best part was that Steve the Squirrel Man was there (as usual), and he showed us how to hand-feed the birds and squirrels!  I felt just like Snow White!

The birds went so fast, that I was only able to barely get one quick photo of a chickadee eating a peanut out of Jamie's hand. I had a bird called a titmouse (I know, tee-hee) eat out of my hand twice.

Now I think we're hopelessly addicted to hand-feeding the critters at the park, so it looks like we'll be doing a lot of that this summer!

In addition to the squirrels and birds, we also saw quite a few non-venomous water snakes (even three of them curled up all together in a pile), a female duck who unfortunately had a slightly injured neck (she's apparently the only female duck in the whole park, so she probably got a little too much 'male-duck' attention, if you know what I mean)...  O__o
We also saw a female Canada goose on her nest, the male Canada goose stationed cautiously nearby, several big carp swimming in the creek, and a couple of blue-tail lizards.  All in all, a pretty good day!  :)

So, without further ado, here's
The Wild World of Deana - National Geographic Slideshow/Video Extravaganza...!

Enjoy!

The very best parts are:
The duck startling the snake (at the 05:30 mark),
Lilly hand-feeding and petting a squirrel (at the 10:15 mark),
and Steve the Squirrel Man hand-feeding a bird (at the 12:33 mark).

(you know, just in case you're in a hurry...!)  ;)