Critters and wildlife in your area - post your pics

Also, an update on the bird's nest in my horse barn... I have not seen any casualties! Yet! Nobody dead on the ground or anything. So maybe the sparrows are smarter than the starlings that used to Nest up there. But of course my husband saw them going up there and said he is going to get up there and close it up even more. What he did worked for the Starling for a couple years. But the smaller bird finally discovered a small opening.:nono: Better find another spot next year buddy!
 
Oooooo, I was so excited last night. We came home kind of late and I went out with Kali and I heard something and didn't know what it was. I figured it might be a bird but it could also be an animal. It was just a little peep but very rhythmic so I got out my app and look what it said. Holy cow that was exciting! I wish I could have actually seen him. I asked for night vision binoculars for Christmas one year and got them from my son. I only experimented with them a couple of times after I got it. I need to get those out again when I hear something like this. That would be so cool!
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Out walking again with Kali and found this all the way in the back of our property.

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An animal got a bird? Or maybe a big bird got a smaller bird? LOL I don't know.
 
This guy is lucky I went in the basement, today. I did save him but... the bunnies are DESTROYING our landscaping this year. They haven't been an issue in years past but they are relentless this year... I did accidently grab a tuft of fur with a bit of skin while trying to catch him. He also did end up on the basement floor for about 0.5 seconds before I grabbed him; I was somehow faster than Rubie who was VERY interested in what was happening... I also noticed he had at least two engorged ticks on him; not sure how many a baby bunny can handle but I probably would've done more damage trying to remove them.

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That actually IS a good hunter! Most dogs just chase and wish they could catch. Did she have a soft mouth on the sparrow or was it something she wanted to eat? My Doberman from 20 years ago picked up our new kittens by the head and would carry them around, but so so softly, never hurting them.
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I guess she has a soft mouth?
There’s no blood or guts, so🤷‍♂️
 
Going out to throw away the remains I startled an orange cat in the shrub in the neighbors yard, sights set on this guy.
Not a great picture, they are hard to capture a shot of.
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Like that cat had a chance in hell😂

Mel Blank was a genius in conveying the personality of the roadrunner as well as the coyote.
Coyotes just don’t give up.
Roadrunners actually toy with predators.
 
Ah, the Roadrunner. Yep, we used to see them, well, running along the roads in AZ. Once your car got close enough to them, they'd take flight but stay real low and just get out of the way.

Too funny you posted a pic of a mole up there. Just last night as I was closing up the garage doors and making sure everything was tucked away for the overnight hours, Oji streaks across the yard without so much as a grunt and I hear like 1 second of very high pitched squeaking. I go over and see he's killed a young/baby mole. It's funny. He may have done it accidentally. He seems quite a softy when it comes to other animals. I mean, he's a dominant bastard and one heck of an a-hole with other dogs, but I have seen him intentionally let squirrels get away. He seems to actually back off if he gets close enough to where he might get a bite. So yeah, before last night, the only animal I've seen him kill was a small lizard.

My older daughter is very interested in seeing the insides of animals (and humans, she says), so it was a fantastic experience this morning taking both girls out and showing them the little mole on the driveway with its entrails hanging out. We dissected it quite a bit further.
 
Ah, the Roadrunner. Yep, we used to see them, well, running along the roads in AZ. Once your car got close enough to them, they'd take flight but stay real low and just get out of the way.

Too funny you posted a pic of a mole up there. Just last night as I was closing up the garage doors and making sure everything was tucked away for the overnight hours, Oji streaks across the yard without so much as a grunt and I hear like 1 second of very high pitched squeaking. I go over and see he's killed a young/baby mole. It's funny. He may have done it accidentally. He seems quite a softy when it comes to other animals. I mean, he's a dominant bastard and one heck of an a-hole with other dogs, but I have seen him intentionally let squirrels get away. He seems to actually back off if he gets close enough to where he might get a bite. So yeah, before last night, the only animal I've seen him kill was a small lizard.

My older daughter is very interested in seeing the insides of animals (and humans, she says), so it was a fantastic experience this morning taking both girls out and showing them the little mole on the driveway with its entrails hanging out. We dissected it quite a bit further.
It’s no mole, it’s a rat! 🤮

Edit...
Oji sounds a lot like Rocky.
Comes out both barrels blazing with not one ounce of stealth😂
It’s been a couple years since he was fast enough to catch one but if given opportunity will make em squeal too.
 
Jazz woke me up in the small hours yelling her head off and needing to "go see to it!" I fully expected to find she was alerting to a huge snake of some sort.............but, no. There were two echidnas mating alongside a corrugated iron wall. Must have been making too much noise for her! :rofl: Coitus Interruptus! :anonymous :IMG_4509x2.webp
They are nose to nose here trying to dig down for safety.
 

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