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

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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    I saw a hummingbird moth.
     Amazing


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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,081

    Was watching some kids feed ducks and swans in Prague when suddenly this thing swims up and climbs to shore. Freaked me out. At first I thought it was a beaver but I guess it is a Nutria AKA swamp rat. 
  • FiveBelow
    FiveBelow Posts: 1,336
    Nope.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,406
    edited August 2022
    was in Canada for my twice a year AA retreat/conference(so glad to be back).

    This guy had taken up residence since we had been gone.....


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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,720
    GlowGirl said:

    Was watching some kids feed ducks and swans in Prague when suddenly this thing swims up and climbs to shore. Freaked me out. At first I thought it was a beaver but I guess it is a Nutria AKA swamp rat. 

    My best fren, he shoots water rats n feeds em to his keeeds
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    mickeyrat said:
    was in Canada for my twice a year AA retreat/conference(so glad to be back).

    This guy had taken up residence since we had been gone.....



    Sweet!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,971
    edited August 2022
    Found this in my pool this morning, must have been a long night at sea lol
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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    BLACK35 said:
    Found this in my pool this morning, must have been a long night at sea lol
    Poor little guy. Rough night I'm sure!

  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    edited August 2022
     I bet we have all had a few  nights  like that!
    Long and grim. Sleeping outside in the queue in leeds felt like that in the rain.
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  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    edited August 2022
    I saw a little hedgehog cross the road, luckily the car stopped and the lil fella made it safely into a neighbour's front garden. I knocked to make sure the neighbour would move it, so it wouldn't get run over!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    I saw a little hedgehog cross the road, luckily the car stopped and the lil fella made it safely into a neighbour's front garden. I knocked to make sure the neighbour would move it, so it wouldn't get run over!

    Nice work, Dreamgirl!  Hedgehogs are so cool.  I saw them now and then the couple of years I live in western New York State.  Cute little fellas!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    We have been seeing one, two, sometimes even three or four of these stinkers (actually, amazingly, they have not been stinky and I don't know what's up with that) each evening on our walk along the walking trail.  They're cute, sure.  But what I want to have to avoid every day on our walk?  NO thank you!
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    Wow 
     You have some cool animals compared to the u.k


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Wow 
     You have some cool animals compared to the u.k

    Skunks are quite interesting to look at and they are mostly very tame and gentle.  Their only defense, of course, is there stinky spray.  A few people don't mind the smell, some tolerate it, and some strongly dislike it.  I'm way out on the "I can't stand it" end of the spectrum.  The smell really messes with my head.  I told my wife that if I ever got "skunked" (hit be skunk spray) I would have to kill myself.  I was actually semi-serious.  The mere thought of that happening terrifies me!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    brianlux said:
    Wow 
     You have some cool animals compared to the u.k

    Skunks are quite interesting to look at and they are mostly very tame and gentle.  Their only defense, of course, is there stinky spray.  A few people don't mind the smell, some tolerate it, and some strongly dislike it.  I'm way out on the "I can't stand it" end of the spectrum.  The smell really messes with my head.  I told my wife that if I ever got "skunked" (hit be skunk spray) I would have to kill myself.  I was actually semi-serious.  The mere thought of that happening terrifies me!
    I told my wife that if one of our dogs ever gets sprayed, we’d just have to get a new dog to replace the sprayed one. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    dankind said:
    brianlux said:
    Wow 
     You have some cool animals compared to the u.k

    Skunks are quite interesting to look at and they are mostly very tame and gentle.  Their only defense, of course, is there stinky spray.  A few people don't mind the smell, some tolerate it, and some strongly dislike it.  I'm way out on the "I can't stand it" end of the spectrum.  The smell really messes with my head.  I told my wife that if I ever got "skunked" (hit be skunk spray) I would have to kill myself.  I was actually semi-serious.  The mere thought of that happening terrifies me!
    I told my wife that if one of our dogs ever gets sprayed, we’d just have to get a new dog to replace the sprayed one. 
    LOL Hope it does it happen!
    Some years before we met, my wife had a dog that got sprayed and it got in the house and ran around and rubbed it all over the furniture.  I'd of have to torch the whole damn house!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,720

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Loujoe said:


    "Why, I could have sworn there was something growing in that clay pot for me to nibble on.  Where did it go?"
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,720
    ^^^True. Funny. I was eating a tomato basil sandwich. I'm pretty sure that's what she wanted.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,406
    not in my backyard but found(and moved) at the fuel island at my work.


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    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14