Wildlife Around Your Home (post pics if you've got 'em!)

dankind

Wobbie said:

The worst! We had a few annoying peacocks on our farm growing up. After a while, we found  another farm a few towns over that would take them. 

We loaded them up and drove them over, and the next day, they had found their way back to our farm. 

We finally just slaughtered and ate them. 

Loujoe

Ouch DK.
Nobody questions an axe with blood round the barn, always got to be some killing going on at the farm. 

 Something like that.

mickeyrat

my wife saw a duck the other night in the backyard. highly unusual. YET, they have returned to chill....

Wobbie

tastes like chicken, Dan?

dankind

Wobbie said:

tastes like chicken, Dan?

Closer to turkey. 

brianlux

dankind said:

Wobbie said:

The worst! We had a few annoying peacocks on our farm growing up. After a while, we found  another farm a few towns over that would take them. 

We loaded them up and drove them over, and the next day, they had found their way back to our farm. 

We finally just slaughtered and ate them. 

There is a very short 1/2 page story by Sam Shepard in his book Hawk Moon called "Peacock Killer" that is a bit gruesome, but I also found it oddly funny.  A short film was made based on Shepard's vignette.  I actually haven't seen the film.  I can't imagine it is better than the story itself.  Shepard was quite the writer!

Hi!

Above the swans head is a red winged black bird (Kinda hard to see).I watched that bird dive bomb the swan for like 20 minutes yesterday. Pretty wild.

brianlux

Hi! said:

Above the swans head is a red winged black bird (Kinda hard to see).I watched that bird dive bomb the swan for like 20 minutes yesterday. Pretty wild.

What a beauty!  I think I can see the red winged blackbird.  That poor swan, lol!

HughFreakingDillon

Live really close to the Red River. These guys are always around. 

mickeyrat

Loujoe

Looks like you have a new pet.

Loujoe

Saw a tiny baby deer today.  Must have just been born. All wobbly. Also tiny tracks by a river. That time of year. 

lastexitlondon

i saw this amazing  moth

Loujoe

Wow. Nature is crazy. 

lastexitlondon

It looked like a humming bird. Crazy

brianlux

Went down to U.C. Davis, Davis, Calif., to see my sister and took a walk along Putah Creek ("Putah" is from the Lake Wiwok puṭa wuwwe "grassy creek") and saw this beauty.  Unusual to be so close to a Great Blue Heron and not have it fly away!

The photo of the heron was taken under an overpass.  Most of the creek looks like this:

Loujoe

^^Nice.

True they usually take off.

Side story. My friend always wanted to see an owl. Saw one in the woods. Posted everywhere and excitedly told me about it. 
Went back to the spot it was still there on the forest floor.

 Same spot.

He approached it and it was one of those fake owl decoys!

dankind

We have an lone bunny living under a robin’s nest in the bushes in our front yard. Pretty sure the rest of its family fell victim to cars, owls, coyotes, or falcons. 

It’s so tiny, but it’s been pretty good about keeping itself alive so far. Good instincts. 

I really don’t like rabbits/bunnies all that much, but I’d like to see this little one thrive. 

dankind

Got some pics (lower right). 

It’s about a six- or seven-foot drop off that wall. 

HughFreakingDillon

it's amazing how often rabbits procreate. with how many end up eaten by predators, you begin to understand why the saying "breeding like rabbits" is 100% true. 

Hi!

brianlux

Hi! said:

Love the turtle!

Wow!  All those snakes!  I've seen lots of snakes over the years but never in a group like that!

Hi!

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I like turtles.

Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.

brianlux

Hi! said:

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I like turtles.

Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.

Turtles are rad!
I'm not familiar with that snake.  Are the venomous?  Funny- at first glance they look like a pile of worms.

Hi!

brianlux said:

Hi! said:

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I like turtles.

Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.

Turtles are rad!
I'm not familiar with that snake.  Are the venomous?  Funny- at first glance they look like a pile of worms.

Not really familiar either. Just a common water snake, I don’t think they are venomous. 

brianlux

Hi! said:

brianlux said:

Hi! said:

^

I like turtles.

Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.

Turtles are rad!
I'm not familiar with that snake.  Are the venomous?  Funny- at first glance they look like a pile of worms.

Not really familiar either. Just a common water snake, I don’t think they are venomous. 

That's good!

josevolution

Now wildlife but natural beauty! 

brianlux

josevolution said:

Now wildlife but natural beauty! 

Beautiful!

Fifthelement

Hi! said:

Awesome pix. 

josevolution said:

Now wildlife but natural beauty! 

Lovely colour.  Is it fragrant?

Bunnies, birds, sneks, and turtles oh my!
what a beastly bounty.

Watched momma raccoon move her three kits last night.  Pics aren’t great as the dogs were losing their shit as she went by.

UKBgirl

Pair of muntjac deer having breakfast in my garden this week.