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Wildlife around your house

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by curiousbear, Oct 29, 2013.

  1. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    This is Alice. She comes around with her mom, Nancy, to get peanut snacks when I’m working on the back porch. When not eating peanuts, she chews on everything else.

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  2. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
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    Baby mourning dove learned to fly

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  3. omega

    omega Very Tilted

    Screenshot_20200819-193714_Gallery.jpg Screenshot_20200819-193734_Gallery.jpg On my afternoon walk, spotted this wasp dragging this paralyzed spider to its untimely demise, being food for the wasps baby.
     
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  4. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
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    Nature is metal.
     
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  5. ralphie250

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    the circle of life
     
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  6. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!

    I was out paddle boarding this morning when this eagle swooped in for breakfast:
     

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  7. ralphie250

    ralphie250 Fully Erect Donor

    Location:
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    their are deer all around my house, but for some reason my wife wont let me hunt at home... so i have to drive 30 minutes during deer season. id much rather sit in the back 40
     
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  8. MrMD069

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    All packed up and ready to be re-homed in the forest preserves.


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  9. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    Girlfriend’s half-blind, willfully deaf, and senile chihuahua apparently went after our friendly neighborhood opossum during a middle of the night bathroom break in the back yard last night.

    Kinda wish the opossum had taken a swipe at his stupid little face.
     
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  10. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!

    Cleaning up our trails yesterday for cross country skiing, and came across this little beauty in the leaves:

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  11. MrMD069

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    Sorry for the poor quality. Neither the wife nor I have seen coloring on a rabbit like this. It looks like someone painted him/her. Also note, I don't think he or she is old. Most rabbits in our area don't make it to old age between the owls and red tail hawks.

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  12. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    Could be leucism.
     
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  13. MrMD069

    MrMD069 Very Tilted Donor

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    This cutie visited us for a couple of years. Think he was a house cat who just liked our swing. Never got close enough to find out and didn't really want to bother him.

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  14. buzzgunner

    buzzgunner 180 gr. of diplomacy

    My wife took this photo with her cell phone back in early September. These six buck (ranging from forked-horn to six-point) were in our driveway almost every day. Then, about a week before the opening day of hunting season, they all vanished! Go figure.

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  15. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    Visit from our friendly neighborhood possum.

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  16. MrMD069

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  17. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    Not around my house, but I crossed paths with this mature female black widow last week at work.

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  18. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Somewhere in this thread I mentioned we had an owl that sometimes hung out, & I posted an image or two IIRC.

    Earlier today I was checking an outdoor spigot after our recent freezing temps (two nights down, one to go) and found a dead owl in my neighbor's yard. There are no signs of trauma, such as a cat attack.

    Does anybody know if owls can freeze to death?
     
  19. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!

    Interesting question.
    Do you know what species you have down there?
    The owls we have up here are very winter hearty.
     
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  20. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    The owl appears to be an Eastern, or Western, Screech Owl, going by the images I looked up. The gray and black markings look something like those on a tabbey cat. The owls that live this far south certainly aren't used to 15F.

    I read about some species starving when prey is hidden under snow, or the cold makes prey become less active.