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

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,196
    goldrush said:
    A very inquisitive rainbow lorikeet hanging out at our window yesterday. Such beautiful colours.


    Beautiful!

    Oh my!  HELLO there!
    Momma Groundhog had four babies, and I made them a salad bar so they stay away from the veggie garden.


    LOL, very cool!
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,974


    I dont think thst baffle is going to be effective
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,681
    Woah cool and funny salad bar! Does it work?
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,113
    goldrush said:
    A very inquisitive rainbow lorikeet hanging out at our window yesterday. Such beautiful colours.



    that has to be someone's pet I would think
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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,566
    edited June 2023
    goldrush said:
    A very inquisitive rainbow lorikeet hanging out at our window yesterday. Such beautiful colours.



    that has to be someone's pet I would think
    We see a lot of these guys around in the trees near us, there are millions of them in Australia. They’re definitely wild, but pretty friendly. The colours look amazing when you see a lot of them flying together.
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  • Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,368
    edited June 2023
    Loujoe said:
    Woah cool and funny salad bar! Does it work?

    It's mostly entertaining, they eat a lot. I also buried the fence in the ground to keep them out, and planted parsley in flower beds for them. They love carrots, cucumber, melon and clover, of which we have tons on the lawn. I have more video too :D
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,974
    a pair have been coming in to the back yard. to rest. chill, whatever. Dog either ignores or doesnt see them because they stay still...

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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,113
    goldrush said:
    goldrush said:
    A very inquisitive rainbow lorikeet hanging out at our window yesterday. Such beautiful colours.



    that has to be someone's pet I would think
    We see a lot of these guys around in the trees near us, there are millions of them in Australia. They’re definitely wild, but pretty friendly. The colours look amazing when you see a lot of them flying together.
    oh ok didn't know they were from Australia and wild. Pretty cool looking. almost looks like a parakeet (that's why i thought it might be someone's pet).

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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,681
    I live in US and caught a parakeet on a fence when i was a kid. It was flying around with other birds. Kept it. Put a sign out that i caught it. Someone came with a cage to claim it, but it wasn't hers. Must have been lots of pets flying around.  Then i had one escape from me too later :( I kind of wonder if they'd naturally fly south when it got cold? Hmmmm

  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,566
    goldrush said:
    goldrush said:
    A very inquisitive rainbow lorikeet hanging out at our window yesterday. Such beautiful colours.



    that has to be someone's pet I would think
    We see a lot of these guys around in the trees near us, there are millions of them in Australia. They’re definitely wild, but pretty friendly. The colours look amazing when you see a lot of them flying together.
    oh ok didn't know they were from Australia and wild. Pretty cool looking. almost looks like a parakeet (that's why i thought it might be someone's pet).

    Some people do keep them as pets, but there are so many of them (I think around 18-19 million or something crazy like that) that you see them everywhere. I love the colours and I always stop to look every time I see them.
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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,566
    edited June 2023
    We also saw a posse of cockatoos on the walk to school yesterday morning.



    There are loads of these guys around as well, and they’re usually pretty loud!

    (I wasn’t sure what to call a group of cockatoos strutting down the street like bad-asses, so ‘posse’ seemed to fit just fine)
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,974
    edited July 2023
    goldrush said:
    We also saw a posse of cockatoos on the walk to school yesterday morning.



    There are loads of these guys around as well, and they’re usually pretty loud!

    (I wasn’t sure what to call a group of cockatoos strutting down the street like bad-asses, so ‘posse’ seemed to fit just fine)

    cocks of the walk?
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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,113
    Saw this guy outside our apartment complex today 🐰

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  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,073

    We have a bunch of these little guys running around the trees near my hotel in Costa Rica. 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,196
    edited July 2023
    GlowGirl said:

    We have a bunch of these little guys running around the trees near my hotel in Costa Rica. 

    Awww, so cute!  
    Do you get to take one home?  :smiley:
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,681
    Dang. Nice. I thought u were at central park zoo!!
    Saw a bear  yesterday.
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,073
    Loujoe said:
    Dang. Nice. I thought u were at central park zoo!!
    Saw a bear  yesterday.
    Nope. These are monkeys in the wild. But they are used to people and apparently like being fed watermelon. 


  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,196
    Our daily walk was VERY warm this evening, but made more pleasurable by our trail guides:
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  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,073

    Iguanas getting some sun. 
  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,073

    For some reason I am craving Froot Loops 😁
  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,961
    Great photos @GlowGirl

    Froot Loops, yuuuuum!  
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  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,961
    Going to an early morning massage appointment and spotted this critter doing their morning ablutions. 


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,196
    GlowGirl said:

    For some reason I am craving Froot Loops 😁

    LOL.  Too cute!  :smile:
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,196
    Mother Nature certainly has her quirks which to some of us mere humans can be a bit disconcerting.
    Here we have a beautiful iridescent beetle that our cat Annie pounced on and nearly did in. It's from a group of beetles (family Buprestid) with the common name Metallic Wood Boring Beetle. I'm fairly certain this is a Golden Bubrested.
    Anyway, this beautiful creature is also quite destructive. It is one of several beetles wrecking havoc on western (and probably elsewhere) forests.
    IMG
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,681

  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,073

    Apparently a group of iguanas is called a Mess. So on my last day in Costa Rica I stumbled across a mess of iguanas. Tomorrow back to NYC where the pigeons are my main wildlife. 
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,681
    ultra rare six-legged, two-headed fawn

  • SpunkieSpunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 6,698
    ^LJ U witty mofo making me 😃 Smile
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,113
    Loujoe said:
    ultra rare six-legged, two-headed fawn

    :lol:

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