Wildlife near you :)

fishybizzness · May 24, 2019

And a random sheep that walked down my driveway!

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KorD · May 24, 2019

There was a roo a lady had when she came into my work. I asked to hold it.

ReefQueen · May 24, 2019

Our new house has lots of wildlife! One of my buds came down to see me today.

I gotta try and get a good pic of the GIGANTIC woodpecker that visits too.

mta_morrow · May 26, 2019

NS Mike D · May 26, 2019

wish I had a picture; Last weekend I was fishing on a sand bar about 100ft from shore under a bridge (Fire Island) at sunrise when about 10ft in front of me a seal popped up face to face. Not sure who was more surprised. About a 10 seconds later my heart started to beat again and I breathed.

dbl · May 26, 2019

We found these yesterday on my wife's parsley. We originally assumed they were Monarch's, but the Google machine is telling us they are actually Black Swallowtail Butterflies - or shall I say they will be butterflies.

jsvand5 · Jun 3, 2019

Saw this walking out of my suburban house yesterday.

Paul B · Jun 8, 2019

Yesterday I was in my Man Cave which is on the ground level and I heard people calling my name. I went outside and there was this big turtle walking across the driveway. I said Wow, that's the biggest box turtle I ever saw. Then I got closer and saw that it was a snapping turtle which normally stay in the water. The thing was about two feet long.

I ran after him (yes, at my age it's not even easy to run as fast as a water turtle) and I grabbed his tail. I used to keep those turtles and know you can only grab them by their tail, if you want to keep your fingers.

He was probably 10lbs and I carried him to a small pond near here but I had to hold him far from my leg because he kept trying to eat it.

That pond is only about 6" deep and dries up if it doesn't rain for a week so I am sure he will be back. I just hope he doesn't make it to my bed.

I couldn't get a picture because it just wasn't prudent at the time.

xjiang7 · Jun 8, 2019

Love them wildlife

tautog83 · Jun 8, 2019

waiting for me to leave so they can eat my landscape lol btw nothing is deer resistant it just means they eat it last lol

SMB · Jun 8, 2019

Paul B said:
Yesterday I was in my Man Cave which is on the ground level and I heard people calling my name. I went outside and there was this big turtle walking across the driveway. I said Wow, that's the biggest box turtle I ever saw. Then I got closer and saw that it was a snapping turtle which normally stay in the water. The thing was about two feet long.

I ran after him (yes, at my age it's not even easy to run as fast as a water turtle) and I grabbed his tail. I used to keep those turtles and know you can only grab them by their tail, if you want to keep your fingers.

He was probably 10lbs and I carried him to a small pond near here but I had to hold him far from my leg because he kept trying to eat it.

That pond is only about 6" deep and dries up if it doesn't rain for a week so I am sure he will be back. I just hope he doesn't make it to my bed.

I couldn't get a picture because it just wasn't prudent at the time.

Probably was a "she" and up out of water to find a place to lay eggs. Or perhaps just finished laying eggs.
Grabbing a tail doesn't necessarily keep the snapper from turning on you and they can lunge forward a pretty good distance.