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

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  • Hi!
    Hi! Posts: 3,095

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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited April 2020
    Hello everyone, we had this sparrowhawk on our front yard this morning. He was trying to capture small birds, I don’t know if he caught any.  :)
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,017
    ^^wow i love those birds.


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    Annafalk said:
    Hello everyone, we had this sparrowhawk on our front yard this morning. He was trying to capture small birds, I don’t know if he caught any.  :)

    What a beauty!

    Sparrowhawks are such a great example of the combination of both the beautiful and brutal aspects of nature.  I used to live in an apartment that had a tall fence separating it from a field and a number of times witnessed a sparrowhawk consuming a rodent while perched on the fence.  I didn't know they went after birds though!  O, the strange, necessary cycles of nature!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited April 2020
    Thank you guys 😃, cool story Brianlux thanks for sharing! I so love all of these fantastic animal photos everone’s taken !!!
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  • Hi!
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    Hi! said:


    "Hello there!"

    That looks like a great walking path!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Hi!
    Hi! Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2020
    brianlux said:
    Hi! said:


    "Hello there!"

    That looks like a great walking path!
    Yes, one of the many within a couple miles of the house. Dune, forest area right off Lake Michigan. People are still allowed to go to parks and hit the trails during quarantine and I’ve noticed more people hiking, which is nice, but I prefer the trail to myself and the animals, lol.
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  • Hi!
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,388
    I saw the fox and at least one baby pup ... got a picture with my phone but quality isn't worth posting.  I'm certain of the area the den is although I wouldn't be surprised if she moves as foxes tend to do that.  Got a great open spot about 150 yards away so I will try to set up a tripod and get some pics if the weather cooperates.  
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  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited April 2020
    Wow Hi,  those birds were big. : )
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  • wasa1971
    wasa1971 Calgary, Canada Posts: 2,144
    We still have so much snow. :(
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,895
    I am disturbed. Here is maybe the most beautiful and big squirrel I have ever seen.... along with a massive fucking rat. :tired: This is right next to my apartment building, below my balcony. Noooo!


    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    PJ_Soul said:
    I am disturbed. Here is maybe the most beautiful and big squirrel I have ever seen.... along with a massive fucking rat. :tired: This is right next to my apartment building, below my balcony. Noooo!



    Odd that they are cousins.  Squirrels are cute and mostly harmless but I have an absolute hatred of wild rats (partly due to several hundred dollars of auto damage a few years ago from rats).  I saw a small dog on campus early one morning at one of the colleges I worked at in the early 80's.  When I got closer I realized it was a huge rat.  Head and body were easily 30 cm long.   Freaked me right out!

    But that said, at one time in my life, the only pets I was able to keep were small animals.  I had pet rats a few times and a mouse once (they only live a couple of years) and they can be surprisingly fun and easy to keep.  Mine used to ride on my shoulder or sleep in my lap like a cat when I watched TV.  But I must say, I'm far happier now having a cat! 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    wasa1971 said:
    We still have so much snow. :(

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

  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    brianlux said:
    wasa1971 said:
    We still have so much snow. :(

    Wow- beautiful!
    I agree.  Beautiful!
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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    PJ_Soul said:
    I am disturbed. Here is maybe the most beautiful and big squirrel I have ever seen.... along with a massive fucking rat. :tired: This is right next to my apartment building, below my balcony. Noooo!


    Wow!  That rat is a good size.  Reminds me of the one max killed in our backyard about a month ago.


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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,388
    eww
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,388

    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    Jason P said:


    How cool- check out those black socks! 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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