#191268 - 01/12/2003 20:17
Backyard Wildlife
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Registered: 13/07/2002
Posts: 634
Loc: Jesusland
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I found this momma and baby sleeping in the backyard the other day and was wondering what else lurked in ya'lls backyard around the world.
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#191269 - 02/12/2003 02:23
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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Squirrels, mostly. A small group of pigeons.
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#191271 - 02/12/2003 04:24
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: julf]
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old hand
Registered: 14/08/2001
Posts: 886
Loc: London, UK
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The occasional burglar, next doors cats.
Have had a huge frog and an urban fox on my front doorstep, although not at the same time
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#191272 - 02/12/2003 05:54
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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old hand
Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
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A badger during the summer (though it might have been a Griffin), but my nan who lives two doors up feeds it along with a couple of foxes so I can hardly blame it for sticking around. It digs for wasps nests too.
Our next door neighbour had a dozen sheep on his patio last week. After find a cow in our garden a few years back we have now fitted substantial fencing!
Gareth
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#191273 - 02/12/2003 06:03
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: g_attrill]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
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Deer(Much like those in the photo), Badgers, Foxes, Canada Geese in profusion, Herons (Not so often since they finished off my daughter's goldfish),sheep, cows, cats, horses and of course boxers - curiously enough ostriches. Add to that geordies selling fish "Fresh from the docks" which have made the journey to North Yorkshire in around 3 hours in an unrefrigerated van - don't ask me why, it's a recent phenomenon, as welcome as Jehovah's witnesses!
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#191274 - 02/12/2003 08:33
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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Registered: 09/06/2003
Posts: 297
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At night: homeless drunks. During the day: employed drunks from local business on liquid lunch break.
-brendan
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#191275 - 02/12/2003 09:26
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
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Blackbirds, thrushes, magpies, bluetits, wood pigeons, cats, dogs, frogs and foxes. Nothing exciting.
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#191276 - 02/12/2003 10:53
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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Registered: 27/02/2003
Posts: 777
Loc: Washington, DC metro
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Squirrels (both grey and black), the occasional o'possum, a red fox, a den of rabbits. And a raccoon with a taste for garbage (though the Tabasco sauce seems to be working for now ).
-jk
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#191277 - 02/12/2003 11:27
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12338
Loc: Sterling, VA
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That looks like my backyard as well. We very often get deer (very, very often). Then the squirrels, foxes, racoons, badgers ("we don't need no stinkin' badgers"), and all sorts of animals that get run over on our street.
A few times in the 19 years my family has lived there, we've gotten brown bears.
I love living with at least some wildlife around. It's neat. It's not suprising that we get it, considering it's about a 5 minute walk from the end of my street to a large creek (it's nearly a small river), which is then a 10 minute walk to the edge of the Patomac river (the undeveloped part of it). I'm about as rural as you can get, living 20 minutes outside of Washington DC.
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#191278 - 02/12/2003 11:30
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
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If d33zy posted a photo like that it would be in green with crosshairs in the middle...
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#191279 - 02/12/2003 11:49
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: g_attrill]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31597
Loc: Seattle, WA
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If d33zy posted a photo like that it would be in green with crosshairs in the middle... One of the few uses of such crosshairs I condone.
/me doesn't like deer at all.
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#191280 - 02/12/2003 11:51
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Greetings!
WHAT!?!?!? When cooked properly, venison is GREAT!!!
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#191281 - 02/12/2003 11:56
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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When cooked properly, venison is GREAT!!! Mmm, venison in mole sauce (that's mole the Mexican bitter chocolate stuff, not mole the backyard wildlife)...
Peter
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#191282 - 02/12/2003 13:15
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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Registered: 24/08/1999
Posts: 564
Loc: TX
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I am almost out in the boonies so get lots of deer, possums, frogs, toads, coyotes, buzzards, racers etc etc.
I can live with them, its the various not-so-nices that I can live without. Like tarrantula, cottonmouths, rattlers etc.
They scare the hell out of me with a curious two year old boy!
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#191283 - 02/12/2003 13:22
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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old hand
Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
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I forgot to mention - during the summer we have four of these in the garden (well, one like this and three similar)
Actually, it's hardly wildlife but they're cute!
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#191284 - 02/12/2003 13:30
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: g_attrill]
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Registered: 13/07/2002
Posts: 634
Loc: Jesusland
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Those are definately cool! The only turtles that I've seen out back are the Box Turtles.
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#191285 - 02/12/2003 16:57
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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old hand
Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
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I should point out they are pets... unfortunately it's *far* too cold in the winter for tortoises. Ours live in a neighbour's cellar from November to March.
Gareth
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#191286 - 02/12/2003 22:14
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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I don't have any pictures but I have a family of rabbits that live under a large pine tree in my backyard, plus squirrels, raccoons, moles, chipmunks and some deer that pass through. My yard backs up into a county park.
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#191287 - 02/12/2003 22:56
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Laura]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
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Do effing mice in the attic count?
If not: dog poop, squirrels and crows.
-Zeke
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#191288 - 02/12/2003 23:00
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Ezekiel]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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I have bats also living in the eaves of my house, who ignore the perfectly nice bat houses I put up for them.
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#191290 - 02/12/2003 23:08
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Laura]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
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It is always so much more fun pooping in _other_ people's houses. Who can blame them?
-Zeke
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#191291 - 03/12/2003 04:16
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: lectric]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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And when you have big trees at the bottom of the garden and put up lovely birdhouses, where do the housemartins decide to live?
Directly above the bedroom window, raining poop down onto the half-roof over the living room. Was very glad when the young left - demolished the entire thing with a large stick.
Have bought netting for next year - to cover the eaves, not to catch housemartins, silly.
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#191292 - 03/12/2003 05:48
Re: Backyard Wildlife
[Re: Jerz]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
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