Wild Life

[swiftdog2.0]

I'm talking about the various creatures and critters you might run into while you're out and about.

I almost ran over a freakin' coyote this afternoon on my way to class after work. Bolted right across the road. He was a big sucker too. About the size of a small German Shepard Dog.

We are seeing more and more of them as the last of their habitat is being developed for housing. That plus the leg-trap ban we put in effect about 10 years ago has resulted in more and more encounters. This guy probably lives in the Blue Hills conservation area and was out hunting for food. The road I was on was in a residential neighborhood just outside there.

I've also seen deer right outside my condo and watched one of my neighbor's kids get charged by a wild turkey. I'm also seeing rabbits everywhere now. Never used to see them at all. I never used to see deer in my area until recently, either.

I had to chuckle at the turkey charge because the little kid was harassing the turkey and I told her it would charge her if she kept pi**ing it off. Sure enough it did.

What have the rest of you seen lately?

 

[FlakeNoir]

Glad you didn't hit him!

We have a few Possums that like to climb over the back fence... scale the garage roof, climb along the boundary fence (past my dogs) across the front gate... so they can eat the vegetables from my front garden and hissssssss very loudly late at night.

 

[staropeace]

In Edmonton,Alberta....where I live in downtown basically....I see many birds and rabbits in my backyard. For a city with millions of folks, it it hard to imagine fuzzy rabbits, lol. We have coyotes, too. I live in the Highland area, overlooking the river. That is where the wildlife thrive. You can walk up to the bunnies. They are pretty tame. I have this peregrine falcon....who eyes my fish in the summer. I had to put planks across the little pond so that they could hide from him.

 

[PatInTheHat]

Just seen a Bald Eagle circling the Ohio River last week, but I got a pal, a gianormous crow what sits in a lone tree on the lot I'm workin' that keeps me in good company, eh, we talk.
Got some weasels I seen weaselin' a while back near the nearby crick backwater (just had a fella bring over to the weenie stand, a real nice 65 lb. Blue Catfish he pulled out of there during the river high water)...too much to list in this part of The Mighty BlueGrass mighty nature inventory.
Got a customer what says he's gonna show me a family of Otters up crick from the big blue spawn hole, big pool dammed by Beaver, ain't seen neither in years neither, so that'll be a real treat...oh oh oh, and I got a one eyed three legged feral cat comes over to mooch vittles, it's gonna let me touch it soon...let's see, now where are those bandages...

 

[AchtungBaby]

Wild Life. Great Wings album.

 

[Grandpa]

Prairie dog towns not too far away. Now and then, a blue heron, majestic bird. Had deer wander down the street. And we used to have a neighborhood fox. The uploader refuses to take the picture I want, so this one will have to do. Crappy resolution and composition due to taking it from my car window while rolling along.

 

[muskrat]

I live in Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom. My place is up a hill, well away from the road (no street), surrounded by woods. Ain't nothin to see packs of deer just waltzing around the yard, like they own the joint. Wild turkey, sometimes in groups up to twenty, counted thirty once--big fat toms. Nighttime can be eerie, what with the screech of some kinda wildcat out there, and the idiotic and extremely creepy baying of coyotes. Saw an owl once perched on my back porch chair; when I had cats I used to have to chase off raccoons and possums who liked to raid their food bowls.

Pretty sure I saw Bigfoot once...

 

[not_nadine]

Fox, Deer - the usual suspects. There is a dam not too far away that is home to hundreds of Eagles. They are just flying around like regular ole birds. Very cool.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

From my house I've seen Whitetail Deer, Red Fox, Coyote, Possum, Groundhogs, Skunk, Rabbit, Red and Grey Squirrels, Chipmunks, snakes, turtles, the occasional Black Bear, Bats, Turkey, Pheasant, Red Tail Hawks, Vultures, Heron, all kinds of ducks and geese, and far too may other types of birds to mention.

 

[KingAHolic]

Here's a pic of a hawk that landed on our fence a few years back. Quality is bad cause I just had to use the closest camera available (but something better than my cell phone)....

 

[FlakeNoir]

Here's a pic of a hawk that landed on our fence a few years back. Quality is bad cause I just had to use the closest camera available (but something better than my cell phone)....

Can't see it sorry.

 

[KingAHolic]

Can't see it sorry.

I know.. grr! I wish I knew what the issue was.. I spent 5 or 10 minutes on trying to get it up there!

 

[Out of Order]

I saw a nice looking fox out walking with her friend yesterday.

 

[FlakeNoir]

I know.. grr! I wish I knew what the issue was.. I spent 5 or 10 minutes on trying to get it up there!

Is it stored on your computer? (If so, are you using the Upload a File button?)

 

[FlakeNoir]

I saw a nice looking fox out walking with her friend yesterday.

Hmmm....

 

[fljoe0]

These lizards are not native and started showing up a few years ago. They are very cool looking and they are all over the place now. They get fairly large (like 8" - 10") and are extremely fast. They are called red headed agama. They can have black or blue bodies with bright red heads and tails.

 

[KingAHolic]

Is it stored on your computer? (If so, are you using the Upload a File button?)

yep, I tried both - upload and copy. It would not upload either way as a JPEG. I then screen shot and saved it as a BMP, but, that format wasn't listed as an accepted file for upload. So, I then saved it as a GIF. That worked. The file size was only 36 or so KB.

 

[Out of Order]

Hmmm....

She was very nice. Gave my dog a bone.

 

[FlakeNoir]

yep, I tried both - upload and copy. It would not upload either way as a JPEG. I then screen shot and saved it as a BMP, but, that format wasn't listed as an accepted file for upload. So, I then saved it as a GIF. That worked. The file size was only 36 or so KB.

We've been having some issues with the up-loader, I'll drop a note to Jordan.

 

[FlakeNoir]

She was very nice. Gave my dog a bone.