Critters and wildlife in your area - post your pics
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Yep. They are all over.Yes, although I never expected to see one tooling up the driveway. A few years ago when our next door neighbor was starting their new house, their builder took this photo RIGHT in front of their property, right off our ranch road. He took some video too, although I can't post it here. The cat looked to be fairly young, had killed a deer and left it right on the road, and when the builder drove by, he saw the dead deer and then looked up and saw the lion, waiting for him to go away so he could finish his meal! And I had thought about walking down the road w/ the dog in that direction that day, even though I usually go up the road when I walk.
I have friends in Floyd Hill, between Idaho Springs and Evergreen.
Cats leave pieces of deer up in trees and behind the wood stack on their property.
It’s a modest 2.5 acres and the residents up there often find remnants on the drive way, up trees, etc.
It’s part of living up there.
Bears, cats, moose, elk, etc.
Interesting to me is they have no nor have ever heard coyotes up on their hill.?
Me and one of their kids in the back yard, August of 24.
I stand 6’ by the way
That’s pretty bad ass
Nice collection!
What state is that?
The bear sitting IN the water is pretty hilarious
That's what I was going to say too. It looks like they love that water tank.
I should put ours back out since it's just turned upside down now after our last horse passed due to old age.
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I think DD is also in CA.Nice collection!
What state is that?
The bear sitting IN the water is pretty hilarious
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Bonnie has been through two "rattlesnake trainings"...
She stopped dead in her tracks ahead of me and looked back then down...she has great hunt drive and
I encourage her to range ahead a bit when trails or open ground has good sightlines...
but I am also training her NOT to chase...
So when she pauses to sniff the air, look intently, sometimes lift a paw like a pointer...
I say:
"GOOD girl!"
And
"STAY" to let me catch up, leash her...make a point of looking where she is, and sometimes cue her to what I see first..,like a game.
and "BACK..." if needed to our default "bushwhacking thru high desert brush" protocol, if needed with ...
me in the lead with my hiking stick ...poking rocks, listening for the rattle...
And to:
Let me get in close, slowly...dont spook it.
I got a video but only one decent photo...
What do you think?
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Couldn’t say what, but pointed tail tells me not poisonous here in CA.View attachment 159161
Bonnie has been through two "rattlesnake trainings"...
She stopped dead in her tracks ahead of me and looked back then down...she has great hunt drive and
I encourage her to range ahead a bit when trails or open ground has good sightlines...
but I am also training her NOT to chase...
So when she pauses to sniff the air, look intently, sometimes lift a paw like a pointer...
I say:
"GOOD girl!"
And
"STAY" to let me catch up, leash her...make a point of looking where she is, and sometimes cue her to what I see first..,like a game.
and "BACK..." if needed to our default "bushwhacking thru high desert brush" protocol, if needed with ...
me in the lead with my hiking stick ...poking rocks, listening for the rattle...
And to:
Let me get in close, slowly...dont spook it.
I got a video but only one decent photo...
What do you think?
CaliforniaHerps.com, Reptiles and Amphibians of California
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Thats a good tip. Gopher snakes protective coloration is very convincing, even to the rapid shaking of tail...but the long skinny end vs rattles is the giveaway.
My dad told me this years ago.
Pointed tip in America (except a coral snake) is not poisonous.
A blunt tail like your pinky? Will kill you.
This is not the case in Asia.
When he was in Vietnam there was a snake called a 3 step. Cause if one bit you that’s how far you got before you were dead.
Tree dweller. He said he was more concerned with them than getting shot, mortars or land mines.
I saw him catch many rattle snakes.
He wasn’t scared of them.
Looks like tail of a lizard. All my dogs have been through rattlesnake training also, works like a charm. Oskar, my GSD REALLY picks up on their scent also, and every time he's alerted to a snake, there's been one. He'll be out on our porch on a summers evening, start barking and I know there's a snake out there. If it's just been passing through, and we can't find it, the next day that snake will pop up somewhere.View attachment 159161
Bonnie has been through two "rattlesnake trainings"...
She stopped dead in her tracks ahead of me and looked back then down...she has great hunt drive and
I encourage her to range ahead a bit when trails or open ground has good sightlines...
but I am also training her NOT to chase...
So when she pauses to sniff the air, look intently, sometimes lift a paw like a pointer...
I say:
"GOOD girl!"
And
"STAY" to let me catch up, leash her...make a point of looking where she is, and sometimes cue her to what I see first..,like a game.
and "BACK..." if needed to our default "bushwhacking thru high desert brush" protocol, if needed with ...
me in the lead with my hiking stick ...poking rocks, listening for the rattle...
And to:
Let me get in close, slowly...dont spook it.
I got a video but only one decent photo...
What do you think?
CaliforniaHerps.com, Reptiles and Amphibians of California
lizards, california, pictures
I've been catching, and relocating, rattlers since 2009. Supposedly they have a 6 mile radius, so I take them about 6 miles, as the crow flies, out to the BLM land where no one goes to camp, hike, etc..... I use to drop them off closer, but they would come back. I spray their tails, when I release them, with 'upside down' paint that is water based. Only time they start to rattle is if startled. Heck, some of them have been so laid back I probably could have picked them up by hand. What scares them is if you scream, like my husband does when he sees one, screams like a girl 
We get anywhere from 2 to 7 rattlers a year. I think we have a den close by somewhere. Really cool late summer early spring because a lot of them are a light green color, I figure since they're fresh out of their den.
We get anywhere from 2 to 7 rattlers a year. I think we have a den close by somewhere. Really cool late summer early spring because a lot of them are a light green color, I figure since they're fresh out of their den.
Mojave Greens? AZ?I've been catching, and relocating, rattlers since 2009. Supposedly they have a 6 mile radius, so I take them about 6 miles, as the crow flies, out to the BLM land where no one goes to camp, hike, etc..... I use to drop them off closer, but they would come back. I spray their tails, when I release them, with 'upside down' paint that is water based. Only time they start to rattle is if startled. Heck, some of them have been so laid back I probably could have picked them up by hand. What scares them is if you scream, like my husband does when he sees one, screams like a girl
No, northern Calif, 2 hours south of Oregon, 2 hours west of Nevada
