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

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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,558
    retention pond near my work... zoom in....


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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,251
    Pair of 🦫?
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,558
    Loujoe said:
    Pair of 🦫?

    2 pair of mallards and babies....
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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,558

    little dude or dudette out there gettin it......

    momma got bothered by me stopping to take pics and swum out to have a word with the kid....

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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,219
    there's an owl's next across my back lane in my neighbour's yard, at the very top of the tree, about 75 feet up. I once heard him hooting one evening. I went out and could see his eyes. Only time I've ever seen/heard him. Very cool. Love owls. 
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,251
    Me too!^^

    She's back...

  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,251
    Now I have to make sure it gets back to the pond safely after she lays eggs. Just got off a 12 hr overnight shift. What's a few more hours.
    Would hate to see a car run over it.

    Watch for turtles everyone.
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  • CarryTheZeroCarryTheZero Posts: 3,379
    Nice job! She looks big! Found this guy in my neighborhood, he surprised me and I nearly ran over him. I stopped the car to go grab him. Delivered him down to the forest area near our neighborhood pool. Plenty of trees and running water.


  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,251
    Nice work! I don't see too many box turtles like that. 

    Next time, the experts recommend  to just move it to a safe spot in the direction it is heading.
    Once I moved a turtle off my lawn to a pond up the road from me. 
    The next day, it came all the way back!

    It was on a mission to lay eggs here. 

    So they seem pretty attached to certain areas.

    I hope this sucker finishes up soon!

    It's raining and the neighbor's probably are wondering why I have a chair set up on the sidewalk :/

  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,558
    discovered in our front flower bed last week during overdue weeding/mulching...
    discovered last night by a critter who likes  unattended mallard eggs.  broke and ate all 4. no hint of yolk or white anywhere....

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    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,251
    Nice M Rat
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,251
    she's still at it.

    Nature always amazes 
  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 10,696
    Friends house, had 2 mama deer give birth days apart… this is lil Tank & Priscilla They are so cute
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,261
    Nice nature photos, everybody!  Thanks for sharing!
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 43,558
    not my house. In the Scioto River a few miles south of the Columbus Zoo. Spring to Fall my meeting meets in the park.

     
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    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
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    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,261
    mickeyrat said:
    not my house. In the Scioto River a few miles south of the Columbus Zoo. Spring to Fall my meeting meets in the park.

     

    Bluetiful! 
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  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,225
    Living in the Colorado foothills gives daily opportunities  to spot wiildlife...


  • GlowGirlGlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 11,890
    You all don’t want to see the little bit of NYC wildlife I saw crawling up my kitchen sink the other day. Ugh. 
  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 10,696
    GlowGirl said:
    You all don’t want to see the little bit of NYC wildlife I saw crawling up my kitchen sink the other day. Ugh. 
    A unicorn with a rainbow horn?
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,261
    GlowGirl said:
    You all don’t want to see the little bit of NYC wildlife I saw crawling up my kitchen sink the other day. Ugh. 

    What, no photos?
    :smiley:
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,219
    edited June 5

    ^^^^actual picture


    I woke up to a loud “gobblegobblegobblegobble” sound. 

    “That can’t be what it sounds like” I thought to myself. 

    2 seconds later I heard it again. I stood up on my bed and looked out the window and waddling across my lawn was a giant fucking turkey. 
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,261

    ^^^^actual picture


    I woke up to a loud “gobblegobblegobblegobble” sound. 

    “That can’t be what it sounds like” I thought to myself. 

    2 seconds later I heard it again. I stood up on my bed and looked out the window and waddling across my lawn was a giant fucking turkey. 

    Nice close up!

    I love it when the turkeys come around to visit.  We've had large gaggles of them at time now and then (once, around 20 or so!)  The males are especially cool to see when that fan out their tails.  

    Come to think of it, just yesterday someone slowed down their car fairly quickly in front of us as we were coming home.  Turned out they were slowing down to let a turkey hen and her chicks finish crossing the road.  Too cute!  Wish I'd gotten a photo.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,219
    turkeys are not common in my area. It was heading towards one of our busiest streets. And that pic was taken on the other side of that street, which means this turkey crossed that road. That's insane. We do have deer that cross that road constantly, but they are a tad more agile that this guy. 

    I live so close to downtown we often have homeless walking around rummaging for cans. It's weird to have a wild turkey walk across my lawn. 
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,423
    there's an owl's next across my back lane in my neighbour's yard, at the very top of the tree, about 75 feet up. I once heard him hooting one evening. I went out and could see his eyes. Only time I've ever seen/heard him. Very cool. Love owls. 

    I love owls too. Since i was a little kid, my response to the question, "what animal would you want to be?" has always been the great horned owl. 
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,261
    PJ_Soul said:
    there's an owl's next across my back lane in my neighbour's yard, at the very top of the tree, about 75 feet up. I once heard him hooting one evening. I went out and could see his eyes. Only time I've ever seen/heard him. Very cool. Love owls. 

    I love owls too. Since i was a little kid, my response to the question, "what animal would you want to be?" has always been the great horned owl. 

    We hear hoot owls in our neighborhood a few times each year and they sound so amazing!  
    But I didn't know they can sometimes attack people.  The first time I heard about that was just last week.  A friend of mine who lives about a half hour from here was outside one evening and heard what he described as a thumping noise coming from a couple of small owls and then suddenly one of the rocketed down from a tree, dive bombing him and hitting him on the head.  A day later his head still felt sore and he was amazed at how hard this small critter bonked his head.  He must have gotten too close to their nest.  
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











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