What animals are in your yard or local region?

[Mockinbirdiva]

Only saw a few Highland cows on the road on the way home so no pics. The ones on the path were brown. Funny I don't think I took many pics of wildlife... Except the ducks
Most of my snaps from up there were mountains and woods, I'll take a look...

Scotland must be a beautiful place to visit. I imagine it to be lush with greenery. I think there must be a beautiful coastline?

 

[Mark & Da Boyz]

We, the condo where I am< now has it's own baby Gator! Maybe a foot and half long. There are three holding ponds here one right outside mt back door and There's where he was pointed out to me first. Now he's moved to the middle or big pond in back. I haven't gone back to see. But the little firshies better look out!

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

We, the condo where I am< now has it's own baby Gator! Maybe a foot and half long. There are three holding ponds here one right outside mt back door and There's where he was pointed out to me first. Now he's moved to the middle or big pond in back. I haven't gone back to see. But the little firshies better look out!

Boy, that is a baby at that size! There's a momma gator nearby that baby belongs to.

 

[Mark & Da Boyz]

Boy, that is a baby at that size! There's a momma gator nearby that baby belongs to.

I think it swam over from Lake Carroll, across the street through the culvert drain pipe. likely to get AWAY from the big boys as he's make a nice little snake for one of them.

 

[Mark & Da Boyz]

that should have been snack not snake.

 

[April]

At the big cat rescue I volunteer at we have so many blue tailed skinks,they're super fast and hard to get pics of but these two shots came out decent enough to share.

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

I think it swam over from Lake Carroll, across the street through the culvert drain pipe. likely to get AWAY from the big boys as he's make a nice little snake for one of them.

So, I live in Murrells Inlet, SC. The link to this video was taken in someone's back yard... obviously they live near a decent body of water but even the ponds around here should be assumed there's an alligator resident. The big boys go for bigger alligators too. Don't click on the link if you don't want to watch a 13-14 foot alligator swallow a 6 footer.

Massive Murrells Inlet gator takes a bite out of the internet in viral video

A Murrells Inlet resident caught an eye-brow-raising moment on camera of a massive alligator in the wild and posted it on social media. It's not your average 'gator crossing the street' video or a 'gator being captured in odd ways. ' Instead, this large reptile is eating..... one of its own...

wpde.com

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

At the big cat rescue I volunteer at we have so many blue tailed skinks,they're super fast and hard to get pics of but these two shots came out decent enough to share.
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Ooo... you volunteer at a big cat rescue? Need some photos!

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

A couple of Steve's latest photos. There's a nice sculpture garden about 7-8 miles south of our home called Brookgreen Gardens. It's one of the places Steve goes to find birds to photograph. The hummingbirds will be leaving soon to head back to South America. Lucky shot to catch a monarch butterfly and a hummingbird together. The lighting was just right to catch the iridescence of the throat feathers on the male.







Edited to add a link to Brookgreen Gardens. Take a visual tour of this beautiful place!

Botanical Gardens | Brookgreen

The breadth of this magnificent place stands before you...

www.brookgreen.org

 

[April]

Ooo... you volunteer at a big cat rescue? Need some photos!

I do yes! I have for several years now and its the most incredible experience. It would be my pleasure to share.

The first 2 are Odin playing in the pool


Tabatha our Liger



Shadow the Black Leopard



Gunther the Tiger


Gunther and his sister Mabel having fun in the pool



And finally one of my favs ever Gus napping while in the pool <3

 

[Pretzel]

Please share pics or interesting information you have of any wildlife that is normal for you to see where you live.

I really love the squirrel pics (because they are cute and I have never seen one in real life) and many of the other pics of birds and animals that don't live in my country but I just realised (after hearing about Civet cats being a problem for @SumitaSinh) that it may be quite educational and interesting to hear about and see what animals others here regularly see and deal with in their yards or local areas.

I don't have any images readily available on my laptop, but living in a tropical country, I see a lot of different animals!!
It's a veeerrryy long list, but these are the ones I recognize and know by name (mostly birds)
Yellow-crowned Amazon parrots, Red-Lored Amazon parrots, Orange-chinned parakeets, keel-billed toucans, saffron finches, house sparrows, great-tailed grackles, clay-colored thrushes, ruddy ground doves, crimson-backed tanagers, blue-gray tanagers, palm tanagers, fork-tailed flycatchers, a boatload of various yellow-bellied face-striped flycatchers which I can't differentiate, Greater Kiskadees (Which I CAN differentiate due to their calls) white ibises, a bunch of herons and storks, cormorants, and not to even get into the bug and monkey species!!

(though, a handful of these species are mostly only ever seen on the outskirts of the city where it's more forested, but also, Panama City is the only capital city in the world to have a national park within the city limits! It's real cool!)

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

I do yes! I have for several years now and its the most incredible experience. It would be my pleasure to share.

The first 2 are Odin playing in the pool
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Tabatha our Liger
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Shadow the Black Leopard
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Gunther the Tiger
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Gunther and his sister Mabel having fun in the pool

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And finally one of my favs ever Gus napping while in the pool <3
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Wow... I'd volunteer too! The name Gunther is maybe familiar? I remember a tiger show with Roy and ? They had a white tiger that attacked Roy. This would not be that same tiger though.

 

[April]

Wow... I'd volunteer too! The name Gunther is maybe familiar? I remember a tiger show with Roy and ? They had a white tiger that attacked Roy. This would not be that same tiger though.

Ah you're thinking of Manticore who mauled Roy, of Siegfried & Roy fame,that was such a sad incident.

 

[Sparkles99]

I feel badly for anyone in that situation. But a tiger truly doesn’t change its stripes & nature should be respected, that includes being honest about what it is.

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

Ah you're thinking of Manticore who mauled Roy, of Siegfried & Roy fame,that was such a sad incident.

Yes, it's been so many years since that happened. That was so hard on Siegfried and Roy. They were so famous and on top of the world with their tigers.

 

[Sarahmoluccan]

I was lucky enough to have a pair robins and a pair of mourning doves build nests on my back deck this year. The robins build their under the deck and the doves build their in a hanging flower basket. I actually didn't notice the doves nest until one I was watering it and a dove flew out! I felt so bad but thankfully she came back and laid another egg. I didn’t water the basket after that. I was able to watch the babies doves grow up. It fun to check on them and see how they were doing. Anyway here so pictures and a couple of rabbit and chipmunk ones I see occasionally too.

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

I was lucky enough to have a pair robins and a pair of mourning doves build nests on my back deck this year. The robins build their under the deck and the doves build their in a hanging flower basket. I actually didn't notice the doves nest until one I was watering it and a dove flew out! I felt so bad but thankfully she came back and laid another egg. I didn’t water the basket after that. I was able to watch the babies doves grow up. It fun to check on them and see how they were doing. Anyway here so pictures and a couple of rabbit and chipmunk ones I see occasionally too. View attachment 470628 View attachment 470629 View attachment 470630 View attachment 470631 View attachment 470632 View attachment 470634 View attachment 470635 View attachment 470637 View attachment 470639 View attachment 470640 View attachment 470641 View attachment 470642 View attachment 470643 View attachment 470644 View attachment 470645 View attachment 470646 View attachment 470647 View attachment 470650 View attachment 470651 View attachment 470652 View attachment 470653

The doves here build the flimsiest nests. It's surprising they can even have a successful family. They are opportunistic in any hanging baskets and last year they were trying to build a nest on top of a ladder that was leaning up against the back of the house. I would love to put some old mailboxes up in the backyard for some birds to use. We had wrens and yellow crested flycatchers build nests in the hole beneath the mailbox where the newspaper could be delivered. Though we don't subscribe to a newspaper. They would always fly out when we checked the mailbox.