What animals are in your yard or local region?

[rocky'smom]

Morning mama and 8 ducklings

 

[Alien J]

Morning mama and 8 ducklings View attachment 431682 View attachment 431683 View attachment 431684 View attachment 431685

I like ducks.

 

[AussieBird]

Bin chickens I've seen a couple times lately.

 

[Shezbug]

Found a centipede in my house this morning.

 

[April]

Found a centipede in my house this morning.
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Oooh! That's a big one! His antennas are so cute.

 

[Sarahmoluccan]

Woah those things a creepy! To me anyway. We have house centipedes here, they're pretty ugly too IMHO but they are useful so we leave them alone. @Shezbug are they venomous or something? Or are pretty harmless

 

[April]

Female Grackle dipping some popcorn she found.

 

[Shezbug]

Woah those things a creepy! To me anyway. We have house centipedes here, they're pretty ugly too IMHO but they are useful so we leave them alone. @Shezbug are they venomous or something? Or are pretty harmless

They are venomous but they would rather just get away from us large beings so they are generally pretty harmless unless you harass them. I will put this fella back outside in a dry spot in a little bit so he can keep eating pests in the garden.

 

[Sparkles99]

I was out at the field I rent for my dog today. It’s in the country. We drove by a great blue heron less than 2 m from us! No pics as I was driving. We later saw it take flight. It looked right at me. They’re huge close up!

 

[Alien J]

I was out at the field I rent for my dog today. It’s in the country. We drove by a great blue heron less than 2 m from us! No pics as I was driving. We later saw it take flight. It looked right at me. They’re huge close up!

Idk if you saw the thread, but my Great Blue Heron friend, that seemed to follow us everywhere we went, once landed not more than one foot right in front of me.

They say they don't get over 4 1/2 feet tall, but I'm here to tell you, this one stood eye to eye with me (I'm 5'4"). No lie, true story.

 

[zoo mom]

Idk if you saw the thread, but my Great Blue Heron friend, that seemed to follow us everywhere we went, once landed not more than one foot right in front of me.

They say they don't get over 4 1/2 feet tall, but I'm here to tell you, this one stood eye to eye with me (I'm 5'4"). No lie, true story.

I am sure that I have seen some around 5ft.

 

[NightOwls]

Bee Fly

Junk bug / aphid loin / green lace wing larvae


Black waved Flannel Moth

Whose caterpillar bites are apparently very painful.

 

[rocky'smom]

This little cottontail was less then 2 foot from where I was sitting. About 1 month old

 

[Sarahmoluccan]

There has been a mama raccoon and atleast 5 babies in a backyard tree on and off for the last few days. It's so hard to tell how many because you rarely see them all together and when you do some huddle together. Before I going between 4 or 5 raccoons in total. Now I'm wondering if there a 6th. The mama was feeding atleast 4 babies a minute ago. Here's pics I got

 

[Sarahmoluccan]

Also bonus squirrel pictures for @Shezbug

 

[April]

There has been a mama raccoon and atleast 5 babies in a backyard tree on and off for the last few days. It's so hard to tell how many because you rarely see them all together and when you do some huddle together. Before I going between 4 or 5 raccoons in total. Now I'm wondering if there a 6th. The mama was feeding atleast 4 babies a minute ago. Here's pics I got View attachment 432173 View attachment 432174 View attachment 432175 View attachment 432176 View attachment 432177 View attachment 432178 View attachment 432179 View attachment 432180 View attachment 432181 View attachment 432182 View attachment 432183 View attachment 432184

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Oh my gosh so much adorable woodland cuteness! I'd give anything to see a Raccoon in the wild!

 

[Sarahmoluccan]

Oh my gosh so much adorable woodland cuteness! I'd give anything to see a Raccoon in the wild!

Yeah they're so cute!! They all down now I think. I caught 3 of babies going down to bushes below. Those pics aren't great. But I couple cute ones before. First pic is Mama

Then here are little clip of Mama nursing. And later babies climbing around her. Sorry the camera work is so shaky thou
Mama racoon feeding and looking after her babies

 

[Zara]

The racoons!!! They're soooo cute!!!!!

 

[zoo mom]

No picture because people hate it when you stop traffic, but this morning I saw a white-tailed deer in town. There is a large expanse of lawn bordered by a bank, dentist office, grocery store, and an apartment complex. The deer was standing between the dentist office and the bank watching traffic.

 

[WillowQ]

I love raccoons and apparently my grandparents had some as pets. They are very very naughty when they grow up, though. There are many in our city, living in the storm drains and hedges/ back lots.

I used to have a pet chipmunk when I was a kid. My mom would not let me have a pet so I found one and he actually did very well all summer. I could handfeed them in our yard but could never feed the grey squirrels. In the city here they are very tame. Up north they are not.

my backyard has been destroyed (ploughing up) so there are not many critters, not even the crows.