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

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,622
    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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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,794
    Nice M Rat
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,794
    she's still at it.

    Nature always amazes 
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,882
    Friends house, had 2 mama deer give birth days apart… this is lil Tank & Priscilla They are so cute
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Nice nature photos, everybody!  Thanks for sharing!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,622
    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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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    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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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,476
    Living in the Colorado foothills gives daily opportunities  to spot wiildlife...


  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,126
    You all don’t want to see the little bit of NYC wildlife I saw crawling up my kitchen sink the other day. Ugh. 
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,882
    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?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    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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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    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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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    HughFreakingDillon said:

    ^^^^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.
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    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. 
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,717
    HughFreakingDillon 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. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    PJ_Soul said:
    HughFreakingDillon 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.  
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  • Loujoe
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,665
    Loujoe said:


    Ohhh, nice.  A future black swallowtail:
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  • lastexitlondon
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    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -

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