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

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 39,781
    GlowGirl said:

    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. 

    Iguanas are SO cool!  Never new their groups were called a "mess".  Interesting!
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  • mookieblalockmookieblalock Posts: 3,008
    There’s a baby fox outside my house as I type this. Looks like a puppy.
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 39,644
    There’s a baby fox outside my house as I type this. Looks like a puppy.

    that's pretty awesome! 

    The other day when i was driving I saw like between 5-10 vultures picking on a dead deer off the side of the road.
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 6,546
    Super cute. Imagine a world with no scavengers...lots of roadkill to be picked up.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 6,546
    keep an eye out. This little snapping turtle was in the road. They're hatching now. I'm always looking & not easy to spot.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 39,781
    Loujoe said:
    keep an eye out. This little snapping turtle was in the road. They're hatching now. I'm always looking & not easy to spot.

    Cute little guy!
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,086
    last night my teen came downstairs saying she thinks she could hear an owl outside. we went outside, and sure enough, at the top of a bare branch across our back lane was a lone owl, hooting away. got a 40 second video, but it's dark and all you see is this dark blob high up in a tree hooting. lol

    not common to hear/see owls where I live (very close to downtown Winnipeg). 
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 39,781
    last night my teen came downstairs saying she thinks she could hear an owl outside. we went outside, and sure enough, at the top of a bare branch across our back lane was a lone owl, hooting away. got a 40 second video, but it's dark and all you see is this dark blob high up in a tree hooting. lol

    not common to hear/see owls where I live (very close to downtown Winnipeg). 

    Nice!  Owls are so cool.  We hear hoot owls at night now and then but have never actually seen one here.
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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,103
    Okay, let's see:



    Some flocks of California quail live in our shrubs. My husband has taken to feeding them. There were several clutches of eggs that hatched in the spring, very high survival rate. Surprisingly, one hen had a second clutch last month! We have over fifty quail living in our yard now.
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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,103
    2) 

    Not in our yard, but not far from us: cow moose and calf, feeding. This was both awesome and kind of terrifying. I think these are part of the southernmost naturally occurring herd of moose:
     
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  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,103
    3) Bucks with velvet still on their antlers. After years of living in NJ, I kind of shrug at deer (they're like giant locusts as far as I can tell), but my husband asked me to get some pictures of these boys. Not much I can do about the bog box, LOL.


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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 6,546
    Quail look cool. Never saw them.

    Huge rack on that one deer.
    This guy was hanging by me today.
    pretty majestic looking animal.
  • curmudgeonesscurmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 3,103
    Loujoe said:
    Quail look cool. Never saw them.

    Huge rack on that one deer.
    This guy was hanging by me today.
    pretty majestic looking animal.

    The quail are interesting to watch: they sort of shuffle their feet to kick up food, and the chicks zip around in the grass like fluffy ping-pong balls.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 39,781
    Loujoe said:
    Quail look cool. Never saw them.

    Huge rack on that one deer.
    This guy was hanging by me today.
    pretty majestic looking animal.

    It's like he's saying, "Dig my groovy tail!"

    Okay, let's see:



    Some flocks of California quail live in our shrubs. My husband has taken to feeding them. There were several clutches of eggs that hatched in the spring, very high survival rate. Surprisingly, one hen had a second clutch last month! We have over fifty quail living in our yard now.

    Quail are so sweet!  I love the way they half run/ half flutter when in a hurry, their feathery little bob on their heads, their sweet song.  They are one of Mother Natures most beautiful and gentle creatures!
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  • FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,884
    Bulking up for winter and trimming the grass. Win win!


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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 6,546
    ^^^Hi. I forgot i think you told me before.. Those are blacktail deer? Or mule? Nice animals
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