Monday, May 25, 2009

A Banana Slug and a Mouse

Yesterday, I was hiking in a nearby park, and I saw my first banana slug. It was a great sighting. Big, slimy and yellow. Pretty cool looking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=banana+slug

And today, the cats got really fascinated by something. Together. That always means a crawling bug. But today it was a mouse. Thanks to Brian, I knew to catch it with some upside-down tupperware. So I did that, and then released it in the "wild" area by the creek. That was the best place I could think of nearby. It was definitely a field mouse - pretty cute, actually:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=field+mouse&m=text

I think/hope it got in by the window, via the wisteria. The cats seemed to start there, or at least that's where I noticed them.

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