What animals are in your yard or local region?

[Shezbug]

Mosquitos

But also, turtles, minnows, MANY squirrels, sneks, birds

Pics? Omg we had so many mozzies last night I am pretty sure the zapper catcher will be full today!

I might share a pic of some of our worms later if I remember lol

 

[LexBirds]

Pics? Omg we had so many mozzies last night I am pretty sure the zapper catcher will be full today!

I might share a pic of some of our worms later if I remember lol

It's night right now and I can't get pics, I will get some tomorrow

 

[fashionfobie]

I love wasps, important pollinators. None are ever aggressive unless defininding their nest. And important food source for Tanager, bluebird, fly catchers, American red start and more.
Southern paper wasp
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Metric paper wasp
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Potter Mason wasp
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Southern yellow jackets
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Blue Jay
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Furrow bee
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2 spotted scoliid wasp
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Feather legged fly
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Interestingly, they are the only pollinators of figs. Every fig we eat met a wasp. I believe the wasps also die in the flower so they literally make up our figs.

 

[tka]

I've been going to Richmond Park a bit more recently and have seen a lot of deer. I was really hoping to see red kites, buzzards and hawks but all we've seen are jackdaws and crows. At least I've taught my city girl colleague the difference between them haha

Fallow bucks and does


Red deer stag


Photos are a bit grainy because it's nearing the end of the breeding season and the males are still a bit lairy. I don't want to get charged!

 

[Sparkles99]

When yellow jacket workers run amok after the queen abandons them to go over winter, they are aggressive unprovoked. Not all wasps mind their own business all the time.

 

[Pixiebeak]

Interestingly, they are the only pollinators of figs. Every fig we eat met a wasp. I believe the wasps also die in the flower so they literally make up our figs.

Here they pollinate everything. Our main pollinators of flowers, berries bush, native fruit trees, grass, palms, sumac, oak, everything that flowers i find wasps of every kind . Also beetles and pollinator flies.

There is a project, Flower visiting wasps of the World on I Naturalist

 

[Pixiebeak]

When yellow jacket workers run amok after the queen abandons them to go over winter, they are aggressive unprovoked. Not all wasps mind their own business all the time.

Never found that to be true. I only have my crappie cell phone to take pictures of wasps. I have to stick it within an inch of them to get Pic, I even will hold the flowers they are on to take Pic. I've nudged them if they are on an underside of flower to move so I can get better pictures.
I've netted them and put in jars to get pictures if rare ones. I've waided deep into wild flower patches swarming with wasps to get pics. Like spotted bee balm that is chest high with multiple wasps of different species on the flowers all around me. Or goldenrods

99% of nature is not out to get humans, they want to flee humans.

 

[Pixiebeak]

Jagged ambush bug

Monarch

White ibis in neighborhood

Spring peeper /cricket frog/or grass frog

 

[Sparkles99]

Baby frogs are simply too cute!!

 

[Pixiebeak]

Baby frogs are simply too cute!!

Its an adult!!! They are so tiny!

 

[Pixiebeak]

Snow goose?


My first if is!!

 

[Kiwi's Dad]

Snow goose?
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My first if is!!

Yes! That’s a snow goose and the other is a Canada goose I’ve taken an ornithology class in the past

 

[Tyrion]

Great pics everyone

 

[Zara]

OK, so if you didn't know, I live in a very touristy beach town. There's currently photos doing the round of a sighting at the beach....


Make of it as you will lol though I did spot a flamingo down there not too long ago so I guess anything goes...

 

[Sparkles99]

Is is a penguin?

 

[Zara]

Is is a penguin?

certainly looks like one to me...

 

[fashionfobie]

In my opinion it looks like a Humboldt Penguin. I am unsure what they are doing in the Mediterranean, they normally reside around the Peruvian coast.

 

[fashionfobie]

After looking at some photos the African penguin also looks very similar and that proximity fits a little better. But it would still be odd for them to be in the Mediterranean. I may contact your local marine life rescue/ support service and report the sighting. This penguin may need help. Maybe a zoo escapee, a freed illegal pet or a bird lost from confusing weather and currents.

 

[Zara]

A couple of folks are commenting saying it's a razorbill. Seems more feasible.

 

[fashionfobie]

A couple of folks are commenting saying it's a razorbill. Seems more feasible.

Awesome! That makes more sense
Clearly a lot of aquatic birds evolved similar patterns for protection in the water. It is amazing.