Wildlife Around Your Home (post pics if you've got 'em!)
brianlux
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I didn't find a thread like this elsewhere although I could be wrong, but I thought it would be cool to have a place to post wildlife sightings around your home. Wildlife is everywhere- from country homes to city dwellings. Show us what you see around your home and post pictures if you've got them!
We've seen fox run through our yard before, but this morning we had the most incredible two and a half hour display of a family of fox running around the place having a great time- a mom and dad and four kits! A couple of times, the mom and the four kits ran across our deck right by the glass sliding door! One of the kits even got up on its hind legs and peered into the dining room like it wanted to get in! Too cool! Unfortunately, mom seems to have a bum leg. But we feel more secure knowing the dad is around. At one point, the mom, dad and four kits were all together and dad started licking mom's face. We were too captivated watching all this go on to get good pictures but my wife did get this one picture of the mom:
"A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts."
-Edward Abbey
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-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
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I love seeing foxes.
This was not around my home; this little guy is an urban fox. I took pics in Breckinridge, Colorado last October.
These pictures are of a Robbin who builds her annual nest on my porch. This year tragedy struck...I came home yesterday to find the nest and her babies laying helplessly on my porch. The mother was on the porch and distraught. I called a local wildlife rehab centre to get help. I was able ti bring the baby birds to a local vet clinic who will deliver them to this rehab centre. 3/4 baby birds were still alive.
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This picture was taken at a local park (Malden Park) in city limits ... I have had 8 deer sitings in the last 2 weeks at this park. A national park I have been going to for over 30 years and I have only seen 1 deer ... yet this park holds annual deer culls ... it's a joke among us locals. It's another epic government of Canada fail ... executing wildlife for no apparent reason but bullshit excuse.
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I live in the suburbs of philly and have seen tons of animals in our complex. Squirrels, birds, rabbits, deer, foxes (a few times), snakes, hell even had a bat in my apartment once and of course cats and dogs (I know not wildlife). My cat loves looking out the window.
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
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5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I don't know about this Bri. As an avid mountain biker I do not want to encounter a cougar while biking. And encounters are on the rise in my area.
I ran over a snake today. I didn't mean to. It was moving across the trail right as I was cornering. It was really shitty timing- I came upon it quickly and couldn't adjust my line.
The rider behind me never saw it so I'm hoping it was okay.
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/05/21/bc-expert-warns-against-cougar-hysteria-after-tragic-us-attack.html
https://globalnews.ca/news/4233986/wolf-like-creature-shot-in-montana/?utm_medium=Facebook&utm_source=GlobalNational
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
From last September.
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Some sort of migratory waterfowl
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
We typically catch 2-3 each day and eat them that day. They're a little bony, but they're tasty. My father sent me a shot of this beauty- he caught it today while I was mountain biking.
-Edward Abbey
"Plutocracies thrive in darkness."
-Dan Rather
"Pretty cookies, heart squares all around, yeah!"
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"