Wildlife near you :)

[spiraling]

I dont have pics... but we live in a neighborhood with a pond and a park. Over the years we have had a black bear (only one). but the birds are the great part. Killdeer, swallows, sparrows, mallard ducks, several other ducks in migration, canadian geese, finch, woodpeckers, merlin falcon, great horned owl, pelicans, blue heron, osprey, bald eagles all have come to the pond (stocked with trout) to feed in one way or another.

A few summers ago like clockwork an osprey would come about 6:00 pm and grab a fish and go back in the same direction. And I can watch it all from my living room!

 

[Murica]

Took a ride on board the Aquarium's research vessel / floating classroom "Spirit of the Sound" with my granddaughter. Saw cormorants, osprey and black-backed gulls on their nests, pulled sea robins, a skate and a porgy in the trawl . . .





But it was these little critters I thought might amuse the crowd here - 'pods in the plankton tow:

~Bruce

How do you post videos????!!!

 

[Maritimer]

You'll need to use one of the video hosting sites - post them there, link them here.

I use Youtube - upload the video there and link to it from my post here. (In the options bar above your post, you'll see a box with four icons - "Smilies, Image, Media, and Insert" - Click the "Media" icon, insert your video's location info, and you're off to the races!

~Bruce

 

[Murica]

You'll need to use one of the video hosting sites - post them there, link them here.

I use Youtube - upload the video there and link to it from my post here. (In the options bar above your post, you'll see a box with four icons - "Smilies, Image, Media, and Insert" - Click the "Media" icon, insert your video's location info, and you're off to the races!

~Bruce

O gotcha. Thanks.

 

[Fudsey]

First one from this year taken in total darkness @ 1am second last year middle of the day. Point of reference, that feeder is 8 feet of the ground, or was... LOL first pic bear stood up and could reach that feeder at 8 feet. He must have stood over 7 feet

 

[Oleshp]

I'll have to get some pictures of them, but there are a lot of wild ponies on Assateage Island which is where we go to the beach (10 minutes from the driveway). You almost always have to wait while one crosses the street on your way in.

Other than that, I've seen a deer in the back yard. A fox has gotten a handful of our ducks and chickens so I know they're around. A surprising amount of Bald Eagles around as well as all the usual ocean birds .

Does our pig count as wildlife if she lives in the house? She's about 150lbs. Lol

 

[easternreefer]

A bunch of pictures I have collected recently.

A vol I think but if you have an opinion I'd love to hear it.

A collection of pictures of a red tail hawk fledglings from a banding program

A little cool/unsettling to see first thing at work.

Native so cal boa constrictor

Faint swallow tail butterfly

that can't be a VOL its the wrong color..all the ones I see are a bright orange....

 

[Katrina71]

that can't be a VOL its the wrong color..all the ones I see are a bright orange....

It's a Vol. If you smash him, he'd bleed orange.

 

[Oleshp]

 

[Murica]

Figured I'd share this.. Look at the size of this asterina!

 

[jenjen]

This blue heron lands on my neighbour's roof every day. Sits there for a bit then helps himself to a fish from her pond.

BC, Canada

 

[creas]

There isn't much exotic wildlife but here's a baby Woodchuck.

 

[Murica]

Poor little guy crashed into my slider.

 

[Salty.Reefer]

Found my first decent sized gopher snake shed.

Southern pacific rattlesnake

Funnel web spider in a visible spot. They are usually deep in their web.

American kestrel

 

[Maritimer]

Last week, just off one of the local beaches, we had a visit from a humpback whale!

~Bruce

 

[jenjen]

Northern Flicker Woodpecker at my feeding station today

 

[3mm3]

I had no idea these lived out here.
That thing was an easy 2 inches

 

[easternreefer]

what is that insect?

 

[Tahoe61]

 

[Barrett]

Black bears visit us everyday, not at our house but at our cabin in Northern Minnesota.