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What wild life do you have where you live?
Posted by amybyrd21 • 8/27/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: animals, what kind
Another discussion (my butt is numb) got me to thinking about what wild animals do you have where you live?
snakes-rattlers,cotton mouths, water snakes, and various non posinous snakes
opposums, raccons, frogs, rabbits, cougar, cyotes,wild hogs, squirrles, skunks, and te list goes on and oon and these have been seen on the 2 acers we call home.
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latte sipping, kabalah practicing, anorexic, tanned, plastic boobed, blond, barney toothed label wh*res.-
Los Angeles?
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Just me. -
I'm pretty much on the cusp of a city.
But my wildlife does include many a rabbit (I see their telltale feet and tailprints in the snow), lots of squirrels, some thug cats, deer, and some unwisely jaywalking wild turkeys. -
Having 3 cats, my house has become the neighborhood cat social club. All the cats from the surrounding areas hang out on my roof and back patio.-
So, do they all get together, enjoy some catnip and tunaballs and work up a rousing chorus of "Memory"?
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its usually a tougher crowd, quite often fights break out hehehe. but they do enjoy the cat chow
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Heh, great imagery-- I suspect your backyard has become a gritty feline bar.
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Just kidding. Squirrels, butterflies, raccoons, beavers, groundhogs, weasels, coyotes, ferrets, foxes, geese, ducks, million varieties of birds and insects, non-poisonous snakes, rabbits, chipmunks, wild turkeys, deer, etc.
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In south-side Chicago I see garter snakes and rabbits.-
Don't forget the Cubs.
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Yes!...the Cubs! Oh and don't forget wild cougars! 8-)
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Deer, squirrel, turtle, black bear, rattle snakes, copperhead, bobcats, Turkey, frogs, possums, raccoons, rabbits, fox, beaver, groundhogs just to name a few. -
hmm.. dogs, cats, deer, possums, birds, fox, groundhogs and bears -
I like in an apartment complex so the wild life is limited to roaches, scorpions *shudders*, pigeons nesting on my balcony and the occasional rattle snake.-
I was thinking roaches was a problem limited to my apt. I have been seeing some lately here and there. Are you using any kind of repellent? -
I get some tiny ones inside my apartment sometimes. My complex gets sprayed on the outside only so I use raid for ants/roaches inside my apartment.
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I'll so much like to do that but I am scared of inhaling toxic spray. Need to find some natural oil to do the job.
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Gigantic cockroaches
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You forgot to say that they fly
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My incomplete list (I hope BC doesn't eat this post!);
AMPHIBIANS
American green tree frogs
American gray frogs
Spring peepers
Toads
BIRDS
American crows
American robins
Anhingas (& cormorants)
Blue grosbeaks (& rose breasted, as well)
Blue jays
Blue-gray gnatcatchers
Bobwhite quail
Brown thrasher
Brown-headed cowbirds
Brown-headed nuthatches
Brown pelican
Carolina chickadees
Carolina wrens
Ducks (wood, muscovy, mallard)
Eastern bluebirds
Eastern towhees
Finches
Gray catbirds
Great crested flycatcher
Great blue heron
Great white egret
Green heron
Indigo buntings
Mourning doves
Nightjars
Northern cardinals
Northern mockingbirds
Orchard orioles
Pied-billed grebe
Prothonotary warblers
Red shouldered hawks
Ruby throated hummingbirds
Sparrows (including chipping, song, swamp & white throated)
Summer tanager
Thrushes (including Louisiana, water & wood)
Tufted titmouse
Turkey
Vultures (both turkey & black)
Warblers (including palm & pine)
White ibises
Woodpeckers (including hairy, red-bellied, red-headed, pileated & yellow bellied sapsucker)
Yellow rumped warbler
CRUSTACEANS
Louisiana crawfish
Blue crab
INSECTS
Bees (bumble, carpenter & honey)
Butterflies (including swallowtails, sulfurs, gulf fritillaries & monarchs)
Caterpillars (including gypsy moth)
Cicadas
Crickets
Dragonflies (of varying types)
Eastern eyed click beetle
Fire ants
Fireflies
Grass-like mantids
Grasshoppers
Katydids
Leaf footed bugs
Lovebugs
Wasps (of varying types)
MAMMALS
Bats
Beavers
Black bears
Brown rats
Gray fox
Mice
Opossums
Otters
Rabbits
Raccoons
Squirrels
White-tailed deer
REPTILES
American alligator
Broad headed skink
Coral snake
Corn snake
Cottonmouth snake
Garter snake
Green anoles
Gulf coast box turtles
Southern black racer snakes
Yellow bellied turtles-
So... um... not much, eh?
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And I know that opossums are marsupials...I lumped them in with mammals for ease of list maintanence. I also forgot to include red-tailed hawks, bald eagles & some others, I'm sure.
TSR; I've kept lists of animals & plants of our yard (& expanded on the animals to include surrounding areas, in this case.) I'm a bit of a nature nut...Can you tell?
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No, not at all. It's very well-hidden.
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I couldnt list all the birds but you do have some I for got about. The ones I listed have been seen or smelled here. The cougar type cat runs the creek line by the house. A neighbors boy friend cornered it one night when the dogs went to barking and flashed it with a spot light. I never knew someone could run so fast.
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We have all manner of insects and birds, small animals such as squirrels, rodents, possums, larger animals such as coyotes and "wild cats" (we're not sure if it's a mountain lion or other large cat that's been prowling around), other critters like snakes, reptiles, turkeys, ducks, geese, swans, etc and so forth.
At our old place in the next town over we also had bear and poisonous snakes, spiders and fun stuff like that.
We also have plenty of deer, raccoons, fox, etc and so forth. Oh, I forgot all kinds of fish and small sharks. -
lots of alligators, wrens, snakes, and hawks -
I live in a suburb and we have deer, coyote, fox, skunk, squirrel, chipmunks, opposums (my husband had a stare down with one at the front door a week ago), badgers, frogs, toads, various snakes, a variety of birds, hmmm. -
Wow! I'm impressed by your list. Oops, this was meant to be in response to LGramlich.
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Thank you.
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I have seven cats, 3 of them are two years old, two of them from a single mother, I have lost 4 more in the last few months to dogs and disease, it was really sad, my cats face attacks on a daily basis from a neighbouring male cat, who is full grown up well built, his face is like a tiger's, my cats run for cover as soon as he appears. We tried everything, but he does not budge, I don't know where to make a complaint against him.
Besides that we had some tigers in a wildlife park near by almost 18, but there aren't any, I wonder where they emigrated to.......authorities are on the look out for them........they might never find them.......as it is the case, in the end you find skins and teeth from an apprehended smuggler. -
Ferrel cats, coyotes, deer, the occasional moose... -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rU5orZeTeo&feature=related Langur ( a monkey breed mostly found in Asia ) teasing tiger cubs.
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What a naughty monkey! CA-was that you?
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I just happened to be the camera person, I can shoot you too though, if you could request, are you naughty too ??? OK then on behalf of CA as long as you won't mind.... kiddin'
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Haha! CA is a BC member, with a monkey avatar. I was teasing him.
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There aren't any wild large predators in the UK (like bears or wolves) anymore so we've really just got things like foxes and badgers and rabbits and hedgehogs!
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Lizards all over my house. They seem to love all the stonework I have. Also possums, toads, and APHIDS! -
I have cougars, bears, dear, crazy squirrels, and just about everything els! -
Snakes, ANTS, rhinos, -
My incomplete list (I hope BC doesn't eat this post!);
AMPHIBIANS
Frogs
British toad
Slowworm
BIRDS
Crows
Robins
Cormorants
Seagulls
Jays
Nuthatch
Wren
Ducks (various)
Green Finches
Goldfinch
Flycatcher
Great blue heron
Corn buntings
Wood doves
Nightinggales
GC grebe
Willow warblers
Red Kites
Buzzards
Sparrows (garden and wood)
Song Thrushes
Warblers
White ibises
Woodpeckers ( green and great spotted)
Blue tits
Great tits
Willow tits
Coal tits
Magpie
INSECTS
Bees (loads of varieties)
Butterflies (40 or so)
Caterpillars
Crickets
Dragonflies (of varying types)
Grasshoppers
Leaf cutters
Lovebugs
Wasps (of varying types)
MAMMALS
Bats
Red fox
field and doorMice
Otters
Rabbits
badgers
Hare
Squirrels
Various deer
stoats
Weasels
Polecat
Hedgehog
REPTILES
grass snake
adder
I confess to adapting Lana's list.... -
In my neighborhood, we have, well besides the usual flies, spiders, bugs and so on, there are also rabbits, ducks (they are terrorizing my neighborhood! They really are!)
And a bunch more. Can't recall them all now ^_^. I don't think that we have wild snakes or something more dangerous crawling around in the Netherlands. -
squirrels, racoons, and the occasional fox..oh and birds...don't know what type. But at the zoo we have lions, tigers, giraffes, cheetahs, polar bears, arctic wolves, arctic foxes....-
Oh giraffes, tigers, cheetahs!! Now those I want to have walking around (on a safe distance of course)
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NOT TO MENTION HUNGRY SEA GULLS WHO ACT LIKE THEY ARE AUDITIONING FOR AN ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIE
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Hey, I went to your blog and seen your snake skin. Found one here that looks like the one you found kind of (found mine in the kid's toy box!)
bricoreandfamily.blogspot.com/2009_05_02_archive.html
The critters I have the biggest problems with are the CHIGGERS!!! I REALLY don't like them.
We also have some of the meanest Bumble bees...lol.. No kidding. They are mean as heck.
Here I took a video of what I had to deal with. The last 2 years around May I have the SAME problem for about 3 weeks.
bricoreandfamily.blogspot.com/2009_05_09_archive.html-
paint the chigger spots with clear fingernail polish and they will go away. Works every time
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We have done that. It works some. You still wake up at 3 a.m. finding yourself itching like crazy.
They also sell a product called Chigger X now.
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i have a deer who has adopted my family and sleeps under the trees in our front yard and comes up on our deck. he doesn't seem to be afraid of us at all, so sometimes we leave old vegetables out at the edge of the woods for him...
he first started sleeping under the trees at the beginning of the summer and terrified my mom... but now she's used to him. he's got pretty big antlers, too! it's very strange...
we live in the woods, so we get lots of squirrels and raccoons as well - sometimes in the attic which is NOT fun!-
We used live catch traps before to catch wild life out of nwanted areas. I removed bats from my house when we first got it but now we just run them off. We have a pyrennese that keeps them out of here or kills them they do get one or two chanced from him before he says no more.
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we use live traps as well... my dad has 3 of different sizes that he ALWAYS keeps set in the attic... they're so loud that we can hear them going off as soon as something gets in. he's been doing this ever since a squirrel burrowed into the insulation and died, and it took us almost a week to find it after it started to smell... the smell was so bad that we were all sleeping in sleeping bags in the living room because no one could stand to go upstairs to our bedrooms!
we called in an expert who put mesh over all of the vents into the attic, but somehow the squirrels and raccoons keep getting in! they're cute when they're outside, but not as much when they're in the house!
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snakes,pythons and leopards are spotted some time in the city area.
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I have found in my house:
Giant, aggressive cockroaches
Little centipedes
Huntsman spiders (big as a child's hand and fast as the wind!)
Geckos
I have found outside near my house"
Stupid bugs (a yellow and black hard-shelled beetle that flies into the wall of the house, drops to the ground, then gets up and flies into the same wall...repeatedly)
Chameleon (the ones with the eyes on the ends of cones and spiral tail)
Moles (we found one actually swimming in the pool one morning)
A whole colony of African honey bees
A lost mongoose or otter in the front fountain
Further out:
Weaver birds
Ibis
Three kinds of doves and pigeons
Cape White Eye (caught him in the house, actually)
A Blue crane
Sugar birds
Sun birds
Starlings
wagtails
The biggest seagulls you can imagine!
In the vlei 2 kms away:
Giant White Pelicans (nesting colony)
flocks of flamingo
Egyptian geese
Spur winged geese
Cormorant
Plover
And many more birds I can't identify
You can go to my flickr account to see pics of the elephants, giraffe, kudu, hippo, crocodiles, and other wildlife I have photographed on my holidays...thankfully, they aren't right down the road like the birds are! -
I live in an area which is considered urban. Most of the animals are the humans. Only animals we have really are possoms, occasional skunk, dogs, cats, birds, geese, ducks and insects. Oh let's not forget all the spiders we have (I usually have a couple on my back deck) because of the river we have a lot of bugs so I have really accepted the spiders all over to eat the bugs
Oh and one day there was a black bear spotted by the highway but he must've made a wrong turn
Now where I grew up there was everything from squirrels and foxes to black bears and coyotes.
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