Wildlife...

[Platapus]

If anyone is interested in squrells and how hard it is to stop them, the BBC put out a documentary entitled "Daylight Robbery". I assume that it is on Youtube. There was actually two documentaries. I preferred the first.

It is a very enjoyable film to watch about how clever squrells can be when motivated by food.

[AVGWarhawk]

They are quite clever and relentless. We know we will not beat them. Shoot one and five more come behind it. So, we are working on working with them. It has become challenge but we are winning. There is now a tray on the ground with squirrel food. The feeders moved to a place that is less tempting for them to try the strafing run. The poles with baffles. They get frustrated and eat what seeds are thrown to the ground by the birds. The soon take the path of least resistance and go to the squirrel feed on the ground. At least today they started using it.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Nice wildlife pics everyone! I've got a few bird pics from my new home in PA.

Tom Turkeys:


Scarlet Tanager:


Northern Flicker:


Dark-Eyed Junco:

[AVGWarhawk]

The only place I have seen wild turkey is PA. Strange but beautiful bird.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

The only place I have seen wild turkey is PA. Strange but beautiful bird.

I've seen a lot of them whilst living in NJ too. I also saw a lot of these bad boys in Jersey:

[Jimbuna]

Cool shots everyone

[frau kaleun]

Yes, very nice. I've noticed quite a few birdies flapping around the patio here and wonder if it would be worthwhile putting out some kind of feeder eventually.

Naturally there are squirrels too but I enjoy watching them more than the birds so I wouldn't mind if they stole a snack or two or three or, more likely, all of them.

Also it would probably provide a view of interest for whatever kitties I get, who will certainly be housebound except for trips out to the vet as needed.

OTOH I start thinking that attracting birds to the patio would just result in them leaving little "presents" everywhere for me to scrub off the brick, so maybe not a great idea.

Incidentally I had quite a laugh when Oberon posted his pictures earlier, the first one didn't load for a long time so I ended up sitting there looking at the word "Magpie" with what was clearly a picture of a toad underneath. Started to get a little worried for the state of boy's education and/or eyesight until the full post loaded.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Well, I love taking photos and viewing photos of nature & wildlife. These are some more photos I've taken over the years. The only recent one here is the photo of the Luna Moth taken from the side of my garage.

Luna Moth:


Great Blue Heron:


Great Egret:


White Tailed Buck:


White Tailed "Bambi":

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

Luna Moth:

My first thought when I saw this was, "Ooooh! Invisibility potions!"

I can't decide whether that's awesome, or incredibly sad.

[Lionclaw]

A magpie eating some remains which a fox had left behind. Saw the fox eating something the night before.

[AVGWarhawk]

I wish our fox would eat the squirrels.

[Oberon]

We had a whole family of foxes for a short while, cubs and all. Was quite nice to watch them play, but sadly around here foxes tend to meet the business end of a twelve bore more often than not, so they don't hang around in an area for long.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

I've seen a lot of wildlife in spite of living in the middle of urban Florida so here's a few of what I've got on film, most of these where taken from my porch.
Cardinals:




Blue jay:



The Doves:

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

My first thought when I saw this was, "Ooooh! Invisibility potions!"

I can't decide whether that's awesome, or incredibly sad.

That moth is actually quite large; almost the size of my hand. Another interesting thing is that they only live for about 2 weeks in the "moth" stage. During this time they eat nothing (they have no mouth) and they only live to mate. Though I've seen them around from time to time, they are rather rare, especially to be able to get a photo of.
Sorry, I'm drawing a blank on the "Invisibility Potion" reference.

@Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg:
Nice pics. I see you have Blue-Jays and Cardinals in FA too. The doves look like a genus of Morning Dove.
Is that an Anole Lizard?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

That moth is actually quite large; almost the size of my hand. Another interesting thing is that they only live for about 2 weeks in the "moth" stage. During this time they eat nothing (they have no mouth) and they only live to mate. Though I've seen them around from time to time, they are rather rare, especially to be able to get a photo of.

Sorry, I'm drawing a blank on the "Invisibility Potion" reference.

I didn't know they even existed as a real thing...

...however I am very familiar with their fantasy alchemical properties.