[I.R.L.] Backyard Flora and Fauna

[CherryButterfly]

Beautiful Bald Eagles, I live right by the Potomac River, so people report big dead fish in their yard frequently, not realizing the Eagles drop them sometimes. Other long-legged water birds, Hummingbirds, Robins, Cardinals, Goldfinches, House Finches, Chickadees, Blue Jays, Brown-headed Cow Bird, Owls, not sure the type, but I hear them.
Raccoons, Possums, Ground hogs, Rabbits, Skunks, (my daughter always called them Stunks), Chipmunks, Squirrels, Blue-tailed Skinks, other little lizards, lots of little green frogs, Toads, a big one lives in my garden, lots of Butterflies. I've seen Coyote both here and at my parents' house in crowded No. Va., right outside Washington, D.C., Bears, although I haven't seen them myself close in, others spot them going thru the trash cans from time to time.

 

[Captain Christian]

As far as reptiles and amphibians go, we've got multiple types of snakes, multiple types of skinks, anoles, bull frogs, tree frogs, and alligators.

 

[CherryButterfly]

Snakes, of course, Copperheads, Black snakes. I see them climbing trees to get into my birdhouses, sometimes. My brother-in -law fixed a neighbor's heat pump, saw a 5/6 foot FAT snake skin in the rafters of their basement. Didn't tell them, we just figured (hopefully) that it had been there awhile!

 

[Captain Christian]

I just finished playing chicken with a goose! I will never again disturb a goose!
#foundanewgoosenestthehardway

 

[Super Catanian]

I just finished playing chicken with a goose! I will never again disturb a goose!
#foundanewgoosenestthehardway

AITA for laughing at you for being one?

 

[Captain Christian]

**** for laughing at you for being one?

You calling me a chicken? Those things defend their nests very fiercely! They've been recorded to kill ducks who got to close!

 

[Super Catanian]

You calling me a chicken? Those things defend their nests very fiercely! They've been recorded to kill ducks who got to close!

I did not call you a chicken; my previous post was very different.

 

[Captain Christian]

And, in one horrible night, the mortality rate of Canadian goslings rockets from 33%* to 55%*!
*Numbers rounded for ease of reading

 

[Dominator - X]

Sheherazade and CherryButterfly, I thought y'all might want to participate in this discussion.
I was just curious what kinds of wildlife everybody had around them.

I saw some rioters this afternoon.

 

[DreadfulCadillac]

Sheherazade and CherryButterfly, I thought y'all might want to participate in this discussion.
I was just curious what kinds of wildlife everybody had around them.

been watching jumping spiders, ants, birds, squirels, karens, etc.

 

[DreadfulCadillac]

And, in one horrible night, the mortality rate of Canadian goslings rockets from 33%* to 55%*!
*Numbers rounded for ease of reading

what happened to them?

 

[Captain Christian]

what happened to them?

We have had a total of three nests. Unfortunately #3 had one prematurely hatched gosling, so the parents abandoned the other 4 eggs to look after little Premie, as we named him, and they were are taken.

 

[Midnight Bandit]

I am in central Kentucky, close to the woods.
Snakes: Lots
Snapping turtles: All
Spiders: Yup
Deer: Seen about once a month
Foxes: Rare
Coyotes: Oh yea
Vermin(all): Of course, but the skunks are rare
Insects(Including scorpions, but they are rare): Most
Turkeys: Seen a few times a year
Oh, and tons of fat squirrels.

 

[emmagirl2]

Seagulls
Crows
Bees
Wasps
A fox lives just down the street

 

[AwesomeAadi10]

You guys have so many cool animals! All I have are things like squirrels, robins, blue jays, cardinals, sparrows, woodpeckers, and probably some other types of birds. I don’t look at the sky very often. I also have deer, maybe a fox not sure, bees, moths, wasps, a lot of ants, spiders, grasshoppers, stink bugs, beetles, lady bugs, garden snakes, etc. Yeah, I don’t have many cool animals lol.

 

[Lady Gato]

I also live in the country so I have the same wildlife that you'all listed. But we just moved into a new to us house that has wide windows that are closer to the floor so now my dog can see out of many windows. He has discovered bunnies close to the house. And the other afternoon he scared us with all of his loud barking over the momma bunny who had her two tiny bunny babies with her. He scared momma so she ran one way and the babies ran the other way and ended up underneath our parked lawn mower. Luckily our dog is an inside dog so no bunnies were harmed.

 

[Nicholas002]

Outside my house there are a lot of deer, bunnies, and occasionally an eagle flies over.

oh, hang on... you said in real life. Never mind then.

 

[Reese7990]

All the images of stilts I see according to Google have really long legs, the flock we have barely has visible legs.

Green Heron perhaps? Not near the size of its tall blue cousin.

 

[Reese7990]

Oh..and currently in my backyard is a flock of teenage girls (My two daughters and friends) A sprinkler, 3 squirt guns, and a very wet but happy domesticated Bernese Mountain Dog. The rest of the wildlife has wisely ran for their lives and are hiding.

 

[Lady Gato]

@jreese7990 And the wildlife hasn't drug you outside yet? It's raining here currently and my 110 lb catahoula leopard is very happy to be inside. Water from a green pond is good, water from a nice rain is bad (according to him).