He's BAAAAAACK

Just the other day I was saying to my good friend Steve (HI STEVE) that I hadn't seen our resident moose in a while.  Andy and I think that Ripley peeing all over the backyard might have something to do with it.  Then after dinner today while I was watching TV in the bedroom, Andy frantically called me into the living room.  And this was what I saw out the front window...

!!!

He decided the trees in the front yard didn't have enough to offer and then moseyed over to the side yard.

Hello!

He aimed himself right at the dining room window (where Fro watches her birds) and chowed away on some poor young bushes that we hoped one day would afford us a little privacy from the neighbors.  Thanks for nothing, moose!

At one point the neighbor popped outside (can you see him?) and he took NO NOTICE of the moose.  The moose checked him out, though.  And then promptly went back to murdering my bushes.

Hi neighbor (we haven't met him yet)!

Obviously we don't know if he's the same moose we saw a few weeks back, but I like to think he is.  He also has the CUTEST antler nubs in front of his ears.  Can you see them?

Isn't he a cool color?  He's mostly black with a light brown mohawk.  I saw him in the woods (I think) today at lunch and initially thought he was a bear, which made me almost pee my pants.

Don't worry, I took about 50 more pictures.  I'll spare you the rest of them.  After he finished eating, he walked back to the neighbor's house and disappeared into the woods.  

Does anyone have any ideas for names for the moose?  

Also, random note, yes it's 8pm and still super light outside.  The sun doesn't go down until 8:52 today! We're officially at more than 13.5 hours of daylight and gaining.  We will have more sunlight per day than our Oregon friends from now (actually weeks ago) until mid-September! Yay vitamin D!