Wildlife in your Garden

[allezlesbleus]

Peacock butterfly in my garden. Not very common where I live.

 

[Hogwild]

Let’s see, I’ve seen:
Owls, blue jays, ducks, woodpeckers, swallows, hummingbirds, robins, possums, armadillos, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, frogs, green and brown anoles (lizards)

Don’t have a large yard at all, but live near a pond. (Saw a gator once at the pond, but he thankfully never wandered down the street to the house)

 

[Eggs]

Let’s see, I’ve seen:
Owls, blue jays, ducks, woodpeckers, swallows, hummingbirds, robins, possums, armadillos, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, frogs, green and brown anoles (lizards)

...wow, is that in the zoo or do you live in the US? Once saw a dead Armadillo in the road when I went to Florida.

 

[Hogwild]

...wow, is that in the zoo?

Nope, just a house in the suburbs. Assume the pond increases the wildlife.

 

[Toast]

Vine Weevils causing carnage with my plants.

I've just see a false widow eating one though, so I hope this continues.

 

[Eggs]

Nope, just a house in the suburbs. Assume the pond increases the wildlife.

....are you in the US?

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I have foxes that literally howl and scream between 3 and 5 in the morning every night.

I know i could wear ear plugs but if I'm awake and wired it is freaky as hell and kills my buzz.

I know they don't like human urine so I have tactically relieved myself around my block but they are in the street and by the other blocks too and if I keep going I'll probably be arrested for having my thunder on public display and my fox excuse sounds flimsy even to me.

So how can I move along these horrors of the night?

 

[larbert toffee]

Let’s see, I’ve seen:
Owls, blue jays, ducks, woodpeckers, swallows, hummingbirds, robins, possums, armadillos, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, frogs, green and brown anoles (lizards)

Don’t have a large yard at all, but live near a pond. (Saw a gator once at the pond, but he thankfully never wandered down the street to the house)

No wild hogs?

 

[Hogwild]

....are you in the US?

Yes Sir. Texas.

 

[Hogwild]

No wild hogs?

No, no wild hogs (I see what you did there ) There are some in the park I drive thru on the way to work though. They occasionally bother people on the bike trails.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Had this gal spend a lot of last winter in the back yard, she ate half of my bushes but I felt bad for her

 

[Eggs]

Yes Sir. Texas.

....that’s fabulous.

 

[ilikecheese]

Let’s see, I’ve seen:
Owls, blue jays, ducks, woodpeckers, swallows, hummingbirds, robins, possums, armadillos, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, frogs, green and brown anoles (lizards)

Don’t have a large yard at all, but live near a pond. (Saw a gator once at the pond, but he thankfully never wandered down the street to the house)

Our friends from across the pond have probably never seen a hummingbird. Truly an evolutionary freak of nature. Tiny little creatures who are curious and seem to have some intelligence. Some of them migrate from Central America to Alaska each year. The longest migtation of any bird. They are tiny...like a few inches wingspan at full spread. They beat their tiny wings so fast they sound like a bee...hence their name. They fly in a strait line at 40+ MPH.

Anyway, based on their size, weight, and metabolism, they should be insects in terms of longevity.

Maybe the Aliens that taught the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs, dropped off these little amazing critters.

Or maybe they are just awesome little birds who saw a bee doing it's thing a few hundred thousand years ago, and decided that's a decent living.

 

[coollino]

Owls hooting last night and fox poo in the garden

 

[Billysgingham.]

Yes Sir. Texas.

Photos please.