Pam Owen - Wild Ideas

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Writer & photographer living in the foothills of the Appalachian Mts, Virginia. Write a nature column, "Wild Ideas." Dedicated conservationist. Comments welcome. 🚫Crypto, religious proselytizing, porn/cam girls 🚫DMs except from friends

A collage of a chipmunk in feeder with pouches full of seed and the chipmunk jumping from the feeder.
Small bird with some dog hair in its beak with the wad it came from nearby
Tiny brown, pleated mushrooms in a half circle
A lovely, tiny, pink, seven-petaled Rue-anemone wildflower blooming on the forest floor
Perched on a branch: "Compact bird with a very short tail, almost no neck, and a sharp bill. Sharply marked with a black crown, white eyebrow, and black eyeline. Blue-gray above and rusty below," as described by AllAboutBirds.org
A bright-red maple leaf among the leaf litter on the forest floor
A 2-inch black, yellow, and orange millipede with yellow legs curling up as it searches for food in forest wet leaf matter.
A cluster of bright-orange mushrooms that just popped up in an oak-hickory forest
A large moth with a shaggy, brown body clings to a door frame, with wings folded, at night.
A harvestman, a brown arachnid, is waiting on a hummingbird feeder.
A man hiking past a towering cliff on a narrow canyon trail in the dry Catalina Mountains
Delicate little white flowers blooming in a forest
Two chickens outside a pen with more chickens in it.
Dog holding down a cottage-cheese container, with her muzzle inside it to lick it clean
A large bird with a red head hanging on a suet feeder
Three White-breasted Nuthatch fledglings going down a tree face first
View from a window of forest and a small patio with chair and cattle tank with flowing water for birds - all covered in ice on cloudy day
A collie dog lies in a yard enthusiastically chewing on what's left of a deer leg
Two trunks of a Prague Hydrangea shrub showing rows of shallow, rectangular holes that remain after a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (bird) removed the bark to get at the sap.
The rear view of an Eastern Carpenter Bumblebee flying away
A satisfied-looking male Gray Treefrog calling for mates with his throat bulging with air.
Two tiny brown baby rabbits in a nest hollowed out in a yard.
An old Black Bear taking a break from feeding on wineberries from bushes at the edge of a yard.
A tabby cat stretches up to check out a lightbulb that is not working on a string of lights around a fireplace.
A pair of large, hairy Red-footed Cannibalflies getting ready to maybe, with female on top
Shot from a ridge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the sunrise in winter, drowning the valley below in red light.
A female downy woodpecker, mostly white with black markings on wings, tail and head, perching on a tree limb.
An Atlantic Ghost Crab ventures out of its hole on a sandy beach on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Several dozen acorns piled up, mostly from White Oak.
Zora the cat watching squirrels and birds on the TV.
A White-banded Crab Spider turns yellow to camouflage itself on a yellow Canada Goldenrod flower and catches a Common Eastern Bumblebee.
A tiny Spined Micrathena spider in her web, wrapping up prey she has trapped in it.