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

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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    We Don t have much that s large. So I'm on a quest to find small now  =)


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    edited July 2018
    I did yesterday save 2 fledgling birds from 2 hungry cats. I felt like i had intervened in the natural selection but fuck it  I'm a lover.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    lastexitlondon said:
    I did yesterday save 2 fledgling birds from 2 hungry cats. I felt like i had intervened in the natural selection but fuck it  I'm a lover.
    Good on you!  It’s astonishing just how many birds are killed by domestic house cats.  In Canada alone, based on crude estimates, between 100 and 350 million birds a year are killed by domestic and feral cats.

    In the US that figure is estimated in one study to be 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 small mammals!

    The following year, Marra got more ambitious: He decided to tally up the national toll that outdoor cats take on wildlife. He and colleagues used mathematical models to analyze data from local cat predation studies going back more than 50 years. When they extrapolated the data to reflect national trends, they were stunned. According to their calculations, outdoor cats killed somewhere in the ballpark of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion small mammals in the U.S. per year—far exceeding any other human-influenced cause of avian death, such as pesticides or collisions with windows.

    source:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-cats-180960505/

    so so pat yourself on the back for the rescue.


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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Came across this guy mountain biking today:


    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    lastexitlondon said:
    I did yesterday save 2 fledgling birds from 2 hungry cats. I felt like i had intervened in the natural selection but fuck it  I'm a lover.
    Nicely done!  Bravo!

    Fifthelement said:
    lastexitlondon said:
    I did yesterday save 2 fledgling birds from 2 hungry cats. I felt like i had intervened in the natural selection but fuck it  I'm a lover.
    Good on you!  It’s astonishing just how many birds are killed by domestic house cats.  In Canada alone, based on crude estimates, between 100 and 350 million birds a year are killed by domestic and feral cats.

    In the US that figure is estimated in one study to be 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 small mammals!

    The following year, Marra got more ambitious: He decided to tally up the national toll that outdoor cats take on wildlife. He and colleagues used mathematical models to analyze data from local cat predation studies going back more than 50 years. When they extrapolated the data to reflect national trends, they were stunned. According to their calculations, outdoor cats killed somewhere in the ballpark of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion small mammals in the U.S. per year—far exceeding any other human-influenced cause of avian death, such as pesticides or collisions with windows.

    source:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-cats-180960505/

    so so pat yourself on the back for the rescue.


    One of the reasons we keep ours indoor only.  She also kills lizards which is a major NO!   She eats well indoors, gets plenty of exercise and and occasional tube of wheat grass to gnaw on/ paw at.

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Came across this guy mountain biking today:


    Ooh, cool!  Looks like some kind of garter snake.  Nice!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Came across this guy mountain biking today:



    Hmmm, is that a rattle snake?  Cool picture.
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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Our cats were indoors too.  RIP Bud & Stella
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    Egyptian  geese and a crane/stork  not sure


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Cute.  Are Egyptian geese as bad as Canadian geese?
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Fifthelement said:
    Cute.  Are Egyptian geese as bad as Canadian geese?
    I can't remember now for sure but I believe the correct term is "Canada Geese".  I know Canadians often get very riled when the wrong term is used for that bird.

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

  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    edited July 2018
    No they are much less in numbers and seen not so often
    They get their name from the black eye liner look around the eyes. Like Cleopatra 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Lol. You’re right, of course, it’s not like they’re  citizens of Canada.  Around here we often refer to them as shitbirds.
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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965


    This little beauty was trapped in my house overnight.  Poor thing.  Managed to catch and release it.  Hopefully the little feller will be alright.
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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965


    This guy did a brief drive-by this morning.  Dogs were losing their shit do he didn’t stop and play 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Fifthelement said:


    This guy did a brief drive-by this morning.  Dogs were losing their shit do he didn’t stop and play 
    A bandit in the neighborhood! 

    Years ago, the first time I lived in a place where raccoons came around, a small band of those critters started dumping and rummaging  the trash can every week.  A few time of that mess I got pissed off,  so one trash day I got up super early and waited in the shadows to ambush those suckers with my stern voice.  Well, haha, the joke was on me.  They didn't give a rat's ass about my scolding them and in fact, turned and looked at me like, "BACK OFF, JACK!"  and then started moving aggressively toward me.  Yikes!

    That week, I got a new can with a strong tie down lid!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    brianlux said:
    Fifthelement said:


    This guy did a brief drive-by this morning.  Dogs were losing their shit do he didn’t stop and play 
    A bandit in the neighborhood! 

    Years ago, the first time I lived in a place where raccoons came around, a small band of those critters started dumping and rummaging  the trash can every week.  A few time of that mess I got pissed off,  so one trash day I got up super early and waited in the shadows to ambush those suckers with my stern voice.  Well, haha, the joke was on me.  They didn't give a rat's ass about my scolding them and in fact, turned and looked at me like, "BACK OFF, JACK!"  and then started moving aggressively toward me.  Yikes!

    That week, I got a new can with a strong tie down lid!
    Lol. That’s awesome.  Nothing comes between a raccoon and it’s foraging.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Fifthelement said:
    brianlux said:
    Fifthelement said:


    This guy did a brief drive-by this morning.  Dogs were losing their shit do he didn’t stop and play 
    A bandit in the neighborhood! 

    Years ago, the first time I lived in a place where raccoons came around, a small band of those critters started dumping and rummaging  the trash can every week.  A few time of that mess I got pissed off,  so one trash day I got up super early and waited in the shadows to ambush those suckers with my stern voice.  Well, haha, the joke was on me.  They didn't give a rat's ass about my scolding them and in fact, turned and looked at me like, "BACK OFF, JACK!"  and then started moving aggressively toward me.  Yikes!

    That week, I got a new can with a strong tie down lid!
    Lol. That’s awesome.  Nothing comes between a raccoon and it’s foraging.
    I was blown away by how intimidating they are!  I ran!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    brianlux said:
    Fifthelement said:
    Cute.  Are Egyptian geese as bad as Canadian geese?
    I can't remember now for sure but I believe the correct term is "Canada Geese".  I know Canadians often get very riled when the wrong term is used for that bird.

    The correct term is Canada geese. And yes we can get a bit testy if the wrong term is used. And yes they are assholes.
    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


    Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Pics of the wild turkeys that roam our yard.


    Anything you lose from being honest
    You never really had to begin with.


    Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Fifthelement said:


    This guy did a brief drive-by this morning.  Dogs were losing their shit do he didn’t stop and play 
    First photo, it looks like it's about to come at you. Scary.
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