Denzil Nature challenges us to share photos of wild animals. Being in the suburbs of a landlocked state in the middle of our country does not offer a vast variety but we do have some interesting personalities of those animals we do have.

For whatever reason, we seem to have a lot of rabbits around our church and we are not in the country – not that far from downtown, but this baby was precious.

I am sure he thought if he was very still I would not see him, but I did, all five inches of him.

The squirrels here, and probably everywhere, are very creative in getting to the bird feeder but this one was hanging by his toes, literally.

Since I am originally from south Georgia, we don’t see groundhogs there but here in Iowa, they are everywhere.

My house is just on the outside of a small national park so we see deer here in the city limits like you would see the neighbor’s dog. Here we have mom and babies.

I understand this last photo is not an animal but he is wild. I had to take his picture because he was so sassy. Sea birds are a common thing here because of the Mississippi River. They follow the tug boats that come here from the gulf.

I remind you as always the value of kindness, even with wildlife. All of God’s creation should be dealt with kindly.