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The (Un)Offical Permie's Wildlife Picture Thread

 
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If you are outside often, it is almost a guarantee that you will run into some kind of wildlife in your endeavors. From the teeny tiny to the frightening large, wildlife can take many forms. This thread is to serve as a space to share the photos of wildlife that you have captured photos of!

I'm excited to share and see what others have seen, so lets get to it!
 
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Common Snapping Turtle


At work, I found this little fella in our maintenance shops of all places. He would rerouted back towards the nearby river area and we haven't seen him sense.

I freaking love turtles. Made my day!
 
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Dobsonfly Larvae


Spooky scary creepy crawly. A dobsonfly is not my favorite thing to run into.
 
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Eastern gray squirrel


The photo was took the year that a gray squirrel ate my entire peach crop.
 
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This little one has a LOVELY singing voice!
This little one has a LOVELY singing voice!
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This one was distinctly UNWELCOME, in my living room, thank you very much!
This one was distinctly UNWELCOME, in my living room, thank you very much!
 
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It's been very hot and dry in my area and I water the several large sunflower "trees" daily as many wildlife are depending on them. I notice the bees are out before dark (still at 90F) to visit the flowers and just go to sleep on site. They get active for a few hours in the morning and hide out during the day. I enjoy my night walk in the garden but have to take detours here and there because of the spider webs. I would try to find small grasshoppers and throw them at the web. Wow! The spiders are very fast to catch the prey. Sometimes the grasshopper is too big and the spider has to battle quite a bit, wrapping and hoisting the package to the center of the web to enjoy.  And of course, the goldfinches love the sunflower seeds and empty every head before the seeds are even mature.
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Living bird feeder
Living bird feeder
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Bumblebee sleeping
Bumblebee sleeping
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Crab spider at work
Crab spider at work
 
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Three was a mama and two baby doves that had camped out on the front steps for a couple days after leaving the nest.
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Another one - maybe 3/4 inch long came in to 'visit', tonight...
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Baby scorpion
Baby scorpion
 
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Eastern Gray Squirrel


Another Eastern Gray Squirrel but this time doing something puzzling. I could almost swear that I caught him chewing on a stinkhorn mushroom. There are plenty of more allegedly appetizing things around, so I'm not sure if perhaps my eyes deceived me.
 
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Tim, I wonder if there is some medicinal quality that the squirrel was after.  I know bees will seek out mushrooms in wood chips, so this wouldn't be out of the question!  Mushrooms in general (non-poisonous) are quit nutritious.
 
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A little vole was out wandering near the hoophouse, climbing clumps of grass and nibbling on seed heads. He seemed completely unaware of me, busy in his task. I redirected him into the scrubby areas, before the chickens could find him.

A little PNW tree frog decided to camp out in my car - tiny frog, big voice.  He very cooperatively hopped into a little jar and was carried to a tree.
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May Lotito wrote:It's been very hot and dry in my area and I water the several large sunflower "trees" daily as many wildlife are depending on them. I notice the bees are out before dark (still at 90F) to visit the flowers and just go to sleep on site. They get active for a few hours in the morning and hide out during the day. I enjoy my night walk in the garden but have to take detours here and there because of the spider webs. I would try to find small grasshoppers and throw them at the web. Wow! The spiders are very fast to catch the prey. Sometimes the grasshopper is too big and the spider has to battle quite a bit, wrapping and hoisting the package to the center of the web to enjoy.  And of course, the goldfinches love the sunflower seeds and empty every head before the seeds are even mature.



Wow May, thanks for sharing your sunflower micro-world with us!

And... since it is October and Halloween is coming, maybe this thread also has room for the other ways that the wildlife lets us know that it has been around... the deer tracks in the sand bed prepared for the new water tank... the shed snake skin by the rock pile in the garden... the web in the crotch of the apricot tree coated with this morning's droplets of fog.
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What an interesting page. I'd love to see others from all over the globe, c'mon permies
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Blue Tongue lizard sunning on mulch
Blue Tongue lizard sunning on mulch
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Breeding size tree frog bathing in birdbath
Breeding size tree frog bathing in birdbath
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BullBull checking out grapes
BullBull checking out grapes
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Echidna on our back bush block searching for termites
Echidna on our back bush block searching for termites
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Kangaroo mob on grass verge outside
Kangaroo mob on grass verge outside
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Grey Kangaroos in sunning pumpkin patch
Grey Kangaroos in sunning pumpkin patch
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Koala & Magpie sharing Eucalyptus tree
Koala & Magpie sharing Eucalyptus tree
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Long-Nosed Bandicoot
Long-Nosed Bandicoot
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Male Superb Fairy Wren
Male Superb Fairy Wren
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New Holland Honeyeaters Bathing
New Holland Honeyeaters Bathing
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Annette, thank you for sharing those pictures; most of those animals seem so exotic!
 
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Barbara Simoes wrote:Annette, thank you for sharing those pictures; most of those animals seem so exotic![/quote
Not so exotic here, I love our wildlife, especially the bird calls.

Barbara, the blue-tongued lizard is a family pet, they have their babies and hang around fairly close to rocky areas and inside pipes I've laid near the main house, we've had many generations of them over the years.

The kangaroos love the pumpkin patch to lie in and watch the world go by, it's lovely seeing young roos leaving mum's pouch for the first time, so gangly and leggy -)

I hope people from all over the globe post here, it's great to see animals from other countries and hear how you all interact with them.

 
Doody calls. I would really rather that it didn't. Comfort me wise and sterile tiny ad:
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