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

northerndragon said:

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.

Is it they come in gaggles not flocks?

tempo_n_groove said:

So in the North Shore of Long Island ,not too far from me there have been coyotes spotted!!!

You talk about fear mongering.  There are a bunch of suburbanites losing their shit right now, I love it.

We used to chase them off the golf courses in Cali.  

Coyote in the heart of LA too, they are extremely adaptable and even thrive in urban environments.
Just like deer, they eat better in proximity to humans with our crops, small pets, our waste, and the critters that our waste attracts.

lastexitlondon said:

Critter is my favourite  word

Meltdown99 said:

Oregon woman finds mountain lion napping in her home: 'This is wild'

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/oregon-woman-finds-mountain-lion-napping-in-her-home-this-is-wild/ar-BBL2hwp?li=AAggv0m&OCID=ansmsnnews11

From The Article.
Taylor made a noise to wake the feline, but then “gazed lovingly into her eyes, and communicated using feline-speak eye blinking to calm her,” she wrote.

“It was amazing to realize that this worked. I gazed lovingly then blinked hard and then she did it back,” Taylor continued, adding that the cat then went back to sleep. “She clearly felt safe and she showed no inclination to leave."

Any cat lovers ... can you communicate lovingly using feline-speak blinking.  My first inclination is that this woman is fucking nuts.  She might be lucky he wasn't hungry and didn't see her as a pork chop.

Yes, I slow blink my cats...

Thoughts_Arrive said:

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.

I think he was actually more startled by the deck.  Kinda like wtf?

Hitting my one hitter in back yard just now and a hummingbird flew in. Lucky if I see1 or 2 a year here in West Michigan. Beautiful, amazing little bird. 
I seen two Orioles a couple weeks ago while camping about an hour north of my house. I've only seen an Oriole a couple times before that. Beautiful, but wasn't able to snap a photo.

Dammit! The damn fox disappeared about 2 seconds before I had my camera ready!

Sorry I’m advance for the long post.

So I’m sitting out on my deck trying to cool down and I hear this really weird sound.  I thought it was a deer for some reason, warning her little ones about my dogs perhaps.  This sound continues sounding more and more distressed so I grab a flashlight and shine it into my neighbours yard and lo and behold there’s a raccoon stuck on the lower pillar of her balcony which is about 25 feet up.  Poor fellow is not making any progress and appears stuck.  After about 10 minutes of very distressed vocalisations I call the local wild animal rescue which of course is closed.  Hmmm, what to do next?  Call the fire department (non-emerg) and ask if they can help.  The gentleman is very nice and says he’ll see what they can do.  Thankfully it’s a slow night, so they sent some guys out to check the situation.  As I’m waiting I realise that this isn’t quite, but close to the FD resucing a kitten from a tree cliche lol

surprise, surprise!



So they arrive to suss out the situation, and there are two raccoons there!  The guy tells me that they’ll leave it till morning and if itheyre still there, they’ll call the wild animal rescue.  Anywho, after he left I went back with some dog food to try and entice them down and they were already gone!  Yay!  Now I suspect the first raccoon was just fucking with his younger sibling and not letting him up to play!  What a night!