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

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    Wow! Is that a Mule Deer? Looks giant.
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Loujoe said:
    Wow! Is that a Mule Deer? Looks giant.
    If you’re referring to the one I posted then yes, sorta.  It’s a Columbia black-tailed deer which is a subspecies of mule deer.  This one is a good size, but in general, the deer on the Island tend to be smaller than their mainland counterparts. 
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    ^^yes. Interesting. Thx. You ever see any mountain lions? 
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    edited November 2022
    We call them cougars here. I haven’t encountered any personally, but they are around.  At minimum, there are usually at least one or two sightings a year in my community which is in an urban centre. We have a lot of deer in the city so there is good eating.  Lots of sightings up Island though. They usually avoid people unless they are sick or starving.

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    ^Darn cool. I'm coming over so we can look for antlers on the ne corner of the island. Thanks for sharing.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,408
    webcam link in article.....

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    The return of wild turkeys to our neighborhood. Happy to see them back. We saw another family much larger but I was driving so no photo.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    They remind me of dinosaurs. Nice picture. Looks like they are going for a stroll chatting it up.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Loujoe said:
    They remind me of dinosaurs. Nice picture. Looks like they are going for a stroll chatting it up.

    LOL, I thought the same thing.  I wonder what they were talking about?

    Even better today- and I wish I'd had grabbed my phone to take a photo- we had a large flock of Sandhill cranes fly and circle briefly relatively low over our house a couple of hours ago.  These are gorgeous birds (example below) and make a really cool sound when flying above.  What a treat that was.  And to think that by 1900, they were very nearly hunted to extinction.  Today, they are the most numerous crane species in the world and can live up to 25 years in the wild!
    Sandhill Crane Identification All About Birds Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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  • Loujoe
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    Yes! I had then fly over my house when I lived in CO. Heard them before I saw. They were way up high, but they make this distinctive chatter. Can't remember what it sounds like now. Very cool . I love nature. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Loujoe said:
    Yes! I had then fly over my house when I lived in CO. Heard them before I saw. They were way up high, but they make this distinctive chatter. Can't remember what it sounds like now. Very cool . I love nature. 

    Nature, yes!
    Yeah, that make kind of a clucking muted castanet sort of sound.  Would make a nice addition to percussion if there were a way to reproduce it, lol!
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  • brianlux
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    Definitely looking more like spring time around here!
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    Wow. Super cool.  Never saw that many like that.  I was on a walk the other day and heard one gobbling.
  • brianlux
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    Loujoe said:
    Wow. Super cool.  Never saw that many like that.  I was on a walk the other day and heard one gobbling.

    One of those showy males made a move on one of the females and she wanted nothing of it.  We just cracked up!
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  • mickeyrat
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    One time driving US 30 WB from the NJ border into Pennsylvania, a flock of 10 or so flew across the road in front of the truck.......

    NOT COOL.
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  • Loujoe
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    Ahh shucks mrat...yep that would stink. Can't swerve or stop. Dangerous.
  • mickeyrat
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    Loujoe said:
    Ahh shucks mrat...yep that would stink. Can't swerve or stop. Dangerous.

    didnt hit any but still....
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,193
    mickeyrat said:
    Loujoe said:
    Ahh shucks mrat...yep that would stink. Can't swerve or stop. Dangerous.

    didnt hit any but still....

    Wasn't a turkey but i had a canadian goose fly into the side of my car once. Luckily i saw him fly towards me and I slowed down a little bit. Also lucky that he hit the side of my car door and not the windshield or anything. Just left some goose crap and stuff on the car. Not sure if it survived or not.
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  • mickeyrat
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    eeriepadave said:
    mickeyrat said:
    Loujoe said:
    Ahh shucks mrat...yep that would stink. Can't swerve or stop. Dangerous.

    didnt hit any but still....

    Wasn't a turkey but i had a canadian goose fly into the side of my car once. Luckily i saw him fly towards me and I slowed down a little bit. Also lucky that he hit the side of my car door and not the windshield or anything. Just left some goose crap and stuff on the car. Not sure if it survived or not.

    driver for my first company had one fly through the truck windshield, landed in his lap. then it started squawking......
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  • Loujoe
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    Went out to hang with the spring peepers last night. went to a small pond with a red/ green light. They are so loud and amazing to watch. I never take amphibians for granted. 
    'Every spring they sound the same, yet tell me something different" a wise man [me] thought of that.
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