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

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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,519
    Down in Disney in Orlando staying in Animal Kingdom 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,016
    Down in Disney in Orlando staying in Animal Kingdom 

    Gorgeous creatures! 
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    Spunkie said:
    Me n my dear listening to some Simone Denny. Happy New Year!


    Loves it
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,557
    Yellow-bellied woodpecker at my mom's house



    where? looks like a red-belly to me.
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  • markymark550markymark550 Posts: 5,153
    mickeyrat said:
    Yellow-bellied woodpecker at my mom's house



    where? looks like a red-belly to me.
    South Carolina. Very well could be a red-belly. I thought my mom and stepfather said that's what they identified it as. However, I could have heard incorrectly as I was being the overprotective father of my 6 month old at his first Christmas...
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,948
    mickeyrat said:
    Yellow-bellied woodpecker at my mom's house



    where? looks like a red-belly to me.
    South Carolina. Very well could be a red-belly. I thought my mom and stepfather said that's what they identified it as. However, I could have heard incorrectly as I was being the overprotective father of my 6 month old at his first Christmas...

    Definitely a red-bellied woodpecker. Very cool.
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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 42,041
    This is pretty cool, some kind of hawk just landed on my balcony porch

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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    Coopers. I can tell by the tail. Nice surprise!
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,016
    This is pretty cool, some kind of hawk just landed on my balcony porch


    Awesome! Hawks are amazing birds!
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    Once in my backyard there was a red tailed hawk that kept flying at a full grown deer. Not aggressively. The deer just kept moving around mildly annoyed. 

    Maybe a juvenile hawk being playful/practicing hunting skills? Perhaps trying to get the deer to spook up a mouse out of the grass?
    Only saw that behavior once in my life.

    Pretty amazing!

  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave Posts: 42,041
    Loujoe said:
    Coopers. I can tell by the tail. Nice surprise!

    yeah, i used the google photos app on my phone and that's what it said as well, but still wasn't 100% sure. Definitely a nice surprise. :smile:
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    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
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    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
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    If you get a chance. Go out on an organized birding hike. You will learn cool stuff. I did one for waterbirds, another raptors (specifically short eared owls), warblers. Grab a cheap set of binoculars. Very cool world to open your eyes to. 
  • markymark550markymark550 Posts: 5,153
    Loujoe said:
    If you get a chance. Go out on an organized birding hike. You will learn cool stuff. I did one for waterbirds, another raptors (specifically short eared owls), warblers. Grab a cheap set of binoculars. Very cool world to open your eyes to. 
    Very fitting you suggest this today since it is National Bird Day.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435

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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,016
    Loujoe said:


    Haha!  Punk snow man- love it!
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    Check out these assholes in my front yard just now

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  • GlowGirlGlowGirl Posts: 10,905
    Check out these assholes in my front yard just now

    Woah! Is your puppy going crazy. Whenever my parent's dog would spot a deer in the yard, she would go insane with her barking.

  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    GlowGirl said:
    Check out these assholes in my front yard just now

    Woah! Is your puppy going crazy. Whenever my parent's dog would spot a deer in the yard, she would go insane with her barking.

    She didn't notice them today. So far, she hasn't gotten too nuts with them yet. Our yard backs up to woods so we see them out all the time. Maybe she's just used to them by this point. 
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  • Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Posts: 14,352
    Grackles are back. One of my favorites.


  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672

    Semiahmoo First Nation Territory, Whiterock, BC
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,557
    edited March 18
    This is Butch. He has adopted our backyard. Sometimes visited by his brother as well.

    Its been an evolving set up. Started with food, treats and water. Had an old water dish and use a heated birdbath to keep from freezing. It works great. Added the pet carrier with the door removed. Lined with carpet pad and has several old sheets as the bed with a small lap blanket wadded up in to snuggle up in.  I put dry food on top of the carrier to keep my dog out of it. Put a can of tuna out occasionally(as pictured) . Last addition was the pop up canopy to keep things dry as possible.

    theres a trail cam out there now. Have caught a pair of raccoons who come every night at just after dark. Sometimes they tip over the water.  A possum visits just after them and sometimes is already there finishing off the dry food. Takes exception with the coons. and will get the occasional skunk.

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    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    Spunkie said:

    Semiahmoo First Nation Territory, Whiterock, BC
    Parents and baby. Awesome!!
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    mickeyrat said:
    This is Butch. He has adopted our backyard. Sometimes visited by his brother as well.

    Its been an evolving set up. Started with food, treats and water. Had an old water dish and use a heated birdbath to keep from freezing. It works great. Added the pet carrier with the door removed. Lined with carpet pad and has several old sheets as the bed with a small lap blanket wadded up in to snuggle up in.  I put dry food on top of the carrier to keep my dog out of it. Put a can of tuna out occasionally(as pictured) . Last addition was the pop up canopy to keep things dry as possible.

    theres a trail cam out there now. Have caught a pair of raccoons who come every night at just after dark. Sometimes they tip over the water.  A possum visits just after them and sometimes is already there finishing off the dry food. Takes exception with the coons. and will get the occasional skunk.

    Nice mrat. Consider catching them to get neutered or spayed then release. I think a lot of shelters do it for free. 
    Once saw a possum hanging on our bird feeder at night. Interesting seldom seen creatures of the night.
    Saw a flying squirrel the other early morning before light. 
    Again rarely seen nocturnal cuties...
  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    edited March 19
    Loujoe said:
    Spunkie said:

    Semiahmoo First Nation Territory, Whiterock, BC
    Parents and baby. Awesome!!
    And an Ocean fish!

    Semiahmoo First Nation had two nice smelling smoky fires going to the left and right of their breakfast habitat on this reserve (not Crown) land. (To keep out evil spirits? Hunters?)

    A pro was taking shots for instagram and had mentioned travelling from the traditional ancestral and unceded shared territory of the Sts'ailes people (Harrison hotspring) area with them.
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    Very interesting. Thx for the details
  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    edited March 19
    Loujoe said:
    Very interesting. Thx for the details
    You're welcome. March 16, 2024 photo before lunch.

    The adults are Brit and Rey (SurRey and British Columbia.) I was gifted with Brit's (female) trademark white feather.

    https://forum.hancockwildlife.org/viewtopic.php?t=717&start=4020

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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,435
    F..k yeah!
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,016


    I love watching lizards (we get lots of western fence lizards in these parts) doing push ups.  I believe it has something to do with regulating their body temperature.  Sure is fun to watch them!
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