Wild Life

[Jojo87]

I saw this...

last year or maybe it was year before that, while I was out and walked with my dogs.

 

[Alexandra M]

Oh, the birds fine. I even had to put some food out for it yesterday evening. Freeze dried mealy worms was on the menu.

 

[Alexandra M]

I saw this...

last year or maybe it was year before that, while I was out and walked with my dogs.

Beautiful picture.

 

[Jojo87]

Beautiful picture.

Thanks, but this picture I took from the internet, this is not the deer I saw but the animal is same.

 

[Spideyman]

I have seen coyote and badger in my neighborhood. I dropped my son off at his home a few months ago and turned the corner and there was this HUGE raccoon walking down the street. HUGE.

I have a ton of quail making nests in my yard, and I have a duck nest -- which now I can't do anything in that area and it desperately needs cleaned up, but I don't want them to abandon their nest. How long does it take for duck eggs to hatch? And I have bird feeders that a variety of birds come to.

Our capitol is always having wildlife come into the city that they have to dart and take back out -- moose, deer, mtn lion, bear

Reg ducks about 28 days/ muscovy 35 ish. Had my washer outside when first moved here. Ducks laid eggs under neath. hand washed for over a month.

 

[Kurben]

If i go out in the forests i might walk into one of this. They are around alot. Messes up football fields, gardens and lawns so you can't believe it.

 

[Kurben]

If you keep persevering usually it will eventually work, so long as the image is not too large. (But I'm sure Jordan will look into the issue for us soon.)

Tried 5 times to upload a photo and then gave up. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...!

 

[KingAHolic]

Tried 5 times to upload a photo and then gave up. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...!

GIF will work

 

[Kurben]

GIF will work

Whyu not Jpeg?

 

[KingAHolic]

Whyu not Jpeg?

Don't know but have not had a problem with GIF..had to change format on my new avatar to GIF

 

[Kurben]

Don't know but have not had a problem with GIF..had to change format on my new avatar to GIF

Ok, will try that next time. Thanks!!

 

[not_nadine]

Reg ducks about 28 days/ muscovy 35 ish. Had my washer outside when first moved here. Ducks laid eggs under neath. hand washed for over a month.

 

[FlakeNoir]

GIF will work

Whyu not Jpeg?

It is an issue that Jordan is working on but may take some time.

 

[The Nameless]

Nothing too exotic around our way - foxes, squirrels, hedgehogs, field mice occasionally. My sister lives by a woodland passage which leads onto a small field in front of her house, she often sees wild rabbits and bats as well.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Forgot about the bats. Often see them on job-sites...three of them hiding in a small metal ball big as a regular baseball. A kind of lightening rod? Metal ridge, metal ball at either end of the gable roof. There was this once I'm up on the roof applying shingles, shingle-over, not a tear-off...and as I'm removing the metal ridge all rusted out, removing the metal ball, have the ball in one hand, one nail holding it still, twisting it and it snaps loose finally. Three bats flutter out. Almost fell off the roof. Another time, removing a gable vent to put on a new one, same thing, bat hiding inside. We have...other places as well...white-nose disease making the rounds, killing bats...big brown bats, little brown bats, long-eared bats. They hibernate inside old mine shafts around here but the white-nose disease funks up their system, makes them go active more often than they should or would normally. Kills them. Danger of extinction we're told

Too, cottontail rabbits here in town. They eat my apple trees winter unless I put orange safety fencing around the tree. We also have snowshoe rabbits...they turn white winter, brown summer. Weasels the same way, except for their nose. Was out snow-shoeing this once, came across a deer kill, was standing there looking at it and a weasel kept poking his head up out of a hole, ducking back in. Another time, I'm sitting on a log, winter, out in the bush...nice and quiet, a bit of a wind, and I see something in the distance I think is a leaf being blown over the surface of the snow. Nope...weasel...dead bird in mouth, making its way home.

Small mice...sitting in a tree, catch movement on the ground...little mouse darting from dead-fall to dead-fall.

 

[no bounce no play]

Reg ducks about 28 days/ muscovy 35 ish. Had my washer outside when first moved here. Ducks laid eggs under neath. hand washed for over a month.

(((Spidey)))

 

[KingAHolic]

One of 3 ground hogs we have captured in our yard over the years -

 

[not_nadine]

Groundhogs! Yes I brake for moseying groundhogs all the time.

 

[not_nadine]

If i go out in the forests i might walk into one of this. They are around alot. Messes up football fields, gardens and lawns so you can't believe it.

 

[Neesy]

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?

"watched one of my neighbor's kids get charged by a wild turkey"

Did the turkey charge very much? I hear they can be expensive