BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Critters -- BC, Monster, cicadas, raccoons, squirrels, and birds

MD -- Critters -- BC, Monster, cicadas, raccoons, squirrels, and birds:

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Description of Pictures: Various things here, mostly around my house:

(040221) Opossum
(040229) BC at home
(040315) Raccoon
(040521) Cicadas
(040522) Cicadas
(040523) Cicadas and Monster
(040624) Cicadas
(040702) Birds
(040716) Squirrels at subway parking lot
(040719) Squirrel, rat, raccoon and Monster
(040804) Squirrel (near the White House, actually)
(040809) A rather aggressive racoon raids that cat food dishes
(040822) Sparrows
(040830) The raccoon, atop the rain gutter, waits for me to leave the front porch so he can get the cat food
(041225) BC

It was Brood X in the cicada cycle. Tens of thousands of them in my yard alone. I found that the birds and squirrels stopped eating the food that I put out for them and ate these red-eyed bugs for weeks. People thought the noise were car alarms. Nope! Mother nature. If Ronald Reagan was as coherent as he was during his presidency, he'd do the "forest fires create more air pollution than we do" thing and say that there was no need to reduce noise pollution because nature is much worse than us. And during this period, he'd have been right.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CRITMD_040523_06.JPG: Holes in the ground that they came out of
2. CRITMD_040523_11.JPG: Note that this guy doesn't have red eyes; he's a different type of cicada
3. CRITMD_040702_52.JPG: This is the work of aggressive squirrels. They decided it was too much work to get the peanuts by going into the lid so they actually slid the front plate all the way up so they could get the food more easily.
4. CRITMD_040719_14.JPG: If you look closely, you'll see a rat standing behind the squirrel. Definitely not what I wanted to see but, given that I feed the animals so much, it makes sense.
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