It’s cat update time!

Here are Porcini and Poppy:

A nose-sniff greeting:

Pansy in the back of the shop, arriving for lunch:

Pumpkin, the alien orange cat, is getting more bold. This past week he went into the shelter when Portabella was already there… and amazingly Bella didn’t object:

Bella even went back to sleep, with him on the lower level:

Meanwhile, a deer came by to eat some berries off the tree, while another cat (Porcini, I think) watched:

Back inside:

Pumpkin got a bit too close, which Bella wasn’t keen on, but she didn’t run away, perhaps feeling like he’d chase if she jumped down:

At one point Pumpkin left, ate some food, then returned, again without objection. After both being in there for over an hour, Pumpkin left peacefully.

Then about an hour later, when Bella was by the bird feeders (look closely to the right of the leftmost feeders), Pumpkin again approached:

He got within a couple of feet of her, then she retreated a short distance, till he wandered off:

At least those two seem to be getting used to each other.

Here’s Porcini in the swimming pool area, after I flushed her out of the bird feeder grasses, while refilling the feeders. She was happy to watch me from a safe distance:

Bella by the cat house:

That evening, though, there was a less friendly encounter between Pumpkin and one of the twins (probably Spud), where Pumpkin chased him to under the cherry tree by the front steps:

They separated when I came out, having heard the ruckus:

The alien gray cat:

Another nose-sniffing greeting:

One of the twins watching birds by the feeders:

Unlike the flock pics, I didn’t have a huge collection of cat pictures this week, as the cats haven’t been hanging around as much, as is typical in warmer weather. But I did choose some interesting ones. Interesting to me, anyway.

Firstly, the twin cats:

The cats haven’t been spending much time in the shelter, since it isn’t all that cold at night, but occasionally they rest for a bit, especially while waiting for breakfast to be dispensed:

Hey, is this photo mis-filed?! Sure, it contains birds… but also a cat.  Can you see it?

Here’s another one, that includes two cats. One should be easy to see:

A cat less stealthily watching a bird on a feeder hook:

Spud in front of the cat house:

Three cats:

About to leap on top of the camera housing:

Four cats:

Two story cats:

Another encounter between the alien orange cat & Poppy, in night vision and color:

(It ended peacefully enough, when Poppy ran off.)

One more pic of a cat watching birds, from a few minutes ago:

That’s it for this week!

I’m back from San Jose, and catching up with things… including reviewing the cat cam footage for the week (or as many days as the cameras record; it varies based on memory card capacity and camera resolution).

Here’s Portabella requesting breakfast:

Another encounter with the orange cat; it’s being quite a menace:

A good stretch:

This is a funny expression; she looks startled, but is actually just in the middle of licking her lips after eating:

One of the cats threw up outside the feeder, and a scrub jay was helping itself:

However, things didn’t go as planned for the bird; a cat was inside the shelter, and chased it. Here’s a sequence of motion-blurred images, of the bird flying into the feeder, chased by the cat, then out again between the cats legs. Don’t worry, the bird got away:

A few hours later, another bird, a steller’s jay, came to finish off the food; I guess it didn’t see what happened to the other one:

It was more successful, and also helped itself to extra cat food. They are such pretty birds:

Two cats eating breakfast:

Two cats inside the shelter:

Four cats inside; three upstairs, one down:

Three cats snuggling on the heating pad:

One cat scratching the tree, while two are in the feeder, and one on the deck:

I hadn’t seen all five cats for a while, so was pleased to see them here (one outside, one in the shelter, three in the feeder):

Three cats inside when another arrives:

Snuggle pile:

We may have new chicks and ducklings, but let’s not forget the cats! A Caturday between the Hawaii and WWDC trips.

Four cats on a foggy morning:

Three cats inside:

Pepper in the shop; this is the last shot of her from this camera, as it has been moved into the duck house, as was originally intended; I was just using this for her until it was needed there. (There’s another lower-res camera over by her food, but it doesn’t record as reliably.)

An encounter with the alien orange cat:

The orange cat in turn had an encounter with an inquisitive deer:

A cat in the feeder:

One eating, one waiting on the deck:

A sleepy Poppy in the shelter:

A cat arrives while others are eating breakfast:

A comfy Poppy again:

A scrub jay keeps visiting the feeder and taking food (could be multiple, who knows); one day it might end badly for it:

Two cats in the feeder:

Another orange cat encounter. It arrived (barely visible off to the left):

And four cats scattered:

There’s the bird again: