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

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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,476
    Not exactly wild but here's newborn goats (this morning shortly before I walked up)
    having their first meal.
    Part of the local weed mitigation herd.


  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,717
    mickeyrat said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    I often see a crane in the lake outside my house.


    Great Blue Heron

    I was fully attacked by one once, totally unprovoked. It was terrifying! I was just walking along... it must have had a nest somewhere out of sight near the path I was on. By why me? Lots of people were walking on that path, lol. 
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,793
    PJ_Soul said:
    mickeyrat said:
    Bentleyspop said:
    I often see a crane in the lake outside my house.


    Great Blue Heron

    I was fully attacked by one once, totally unprovoked. It was terrifying! I was just walking along... it must have had a nest somewhere out of sight near the path I was on. By why me? Lots of people were walking on that path, lol. 
    Interesting. Never heard of that! I've had them hang out by me when fishing. Now I'm scared!
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,960
    I was in Cortina a few weeks ago. We saw this guy a few times coming home from dinner.

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,793
    Wow. What type of deer is that. Where is Cortina? Greece? Excuse my geographical ignorance!!
    Beautiful animal/picture ❤️ 
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,960
    Loujoe said:
    Wow. What type of deer is that. Where is Cortina? Greece? Excuse my geographical ignorance!!
    Beautiful animal/picture ❤️ 
    It's in Northern Italy in the Dolomites.
    I think it's a red deer.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,793
    Wow. Never saw that. Very cool. Big boy.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,608
    retention pond at work....


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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,925
    who knew wasps liked rat brain?


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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,608
    at the park after our aa meeting this morning. 


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    mickeyrat said:
    at the park after our aa meeting this morning. 



    Nice!  Gotta love those TVs!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,793
    Woah^^a little like Halloween in July!
    The pollinators are in full effect now
    interesting to see how camouflaged they can bee. Never really niticed that.
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,476
    From this weekend...

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,793
    edited July 28
    Rattlesnake? 
    When I lived in Colorado saw 3 of them. Different times. Rattled right at me and my dog! We lived to tell, but pretty scary. I was fishing at a lake. Started catching fish and my dog spooked snake. Very lucky he didn't get bit. I scooped dog up. And started to walk away. Then another RS popped its head up to get a good look at us. I carried my dog all the way off the mountain. No ill feelings toward the snakes. Just respect and never let my dog wander again.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,608
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:
    at the park after our aa meeting this morning. 



    Nice!  Gotta love those TVs!

    gemini ai claims these are black vultures but the range estimates I found via audubon app suggest otherwise. however the text in the entry noted changing climate has expanded their range. 
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,476
    Loujoe said:
    Rattlesnake? 
    When I lived in Colorado saw 3 of them. Different times. Rattled right at me and my dog! We lived to tell, but pretty scary. I was fishing at a lake. Started catching fish and my dog spooked snake. Very lucky he didn't get bit. I scooped dog up. And started to walk away. Then another RS popped its head up to get a good look at us. I carried my dog all the way off the mountain. No ill feelings toward the snakes. Just respect and never let my dog wander again.
    Nope just a bull snake.
    I have seen quite a few rattlers over the years.

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,793
    Exactly how I remember it. Ahhhhh. Getaway!
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    At the lake. Drove to the local store about 5 minutes down the highway. Saw a dark figure in my peripheral vision on a dirt road to my right, figured it might be a bear. Decided to take a peek on the way back. A deer had joined him: 
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  • mookieblalock
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,476
    Saw these 2 while out on my morning walk...

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