Critters and wildlife in your area - post your pics

[MyBuddy]

We see these guys running around all summer. The dogs always trying to catch them but never do. They just make a mess of the gardens, running circles around the bushes.

Six Lined Racerunner.


And saw my first toad. They're prevalent here during the summer too.

 

[Js4fn]

Good thing mad knows she’s not supergirl anymore

 

[GennyB]

NOPE!

 

[DobieDesire]

Old photo's. That red fox is unusual, as we don't have any red fox here, we have grey fox. Use to see a lot of red fox in the S.F. Bay Area on the trails. Got this photo after there were a TON of wildfires in the Sierras, I figure the fox just migrated following food, since everything was devastated where it had lived. Haven't seen it since.

 

[Wrangler]

My Resident Fox a few nights ago. (S)He has a den near the creek on my property and has been here for several years. I hear it a lot at night. Have seen it in broad daylight once, gorgeous red fox. With 5 security cameras and several years this is the first time I've gotten it on camera.

 

[BGpa]

Great shot!

 

[JanS]

With 5 security cameras and several years this is the first time I've gotten it on camera.

Gosh they are all over our yard, night and day. I have a lot of close up photos from our downstairs window.

 

[BGpa]

Timber rattlesnake?

 

[DobieDesire]

Timber rattlesnake?

Looks more like some kind of Boa

 

[MyBuddy]

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NOPE!

I love asking Google! They're not always right but this is what it says.

 

[MyBuddy]

Monday my daughter-in-law and the three boys were here. I took the youngest, 10 years old, out to help me in the barn. Then we took my golf cart and wagon and went out back cleaning up in my pasture. When we drive past the run-in out there, he says, a snake! I'll be darn. We were just talking about snakes and I told him I have not seen one lately and last year I didn't even see too many. Usually I'll see at least two or three bull snakes like this one. Most of the time I've got to relocate them out of my barn or away from the house. But this guy was out in the back in the run-in. Not bothering anybody but maybe the birds nests that are sometimes in the rafters

. Annie wanted to get close but I kept calling her back. I don't think she knew what that was! Probably her first snake.




He went under the run-in and scooted across into the evergreen tree.

 

[Js4fn]

First fawn of 2026

 

[GennyB]

Timber rattlesnake?

When I first saw it I thought it was a copperhead which is why it is not a clear shot. I had to zoom in. After we got back I looked closer and it's just a watersnake.

 

[Sunje]

Or perhaps a grey ratsnake. Those markings are pretty typical of ratsnakes, and the head is the same. I've had several ratsnakes, and the head is a bit different from a watersnake.

 

[BGpa]

Ya, it was fuzzy and almost looking like it just shed, so I was going by the triangular head, typical pit viper givesway.

Interrsting factoid- the local gopher snakes defence is its mimicry of rattlesnake markings, inc the ability to flatten its head. Some are observed to rapidly vibrate tail against vegetation to simulate the warning rattle...

Now, Floriduh Man to Be is gonna need to brushup some...y'all are halfway to "Straya for creepy crawlies that'll git ya!

Say @Ladydi
anyone there do "gator avoidance training" for dobes?

And I got a water mocassin story about swimming in a lake in TX...

 

[Sunje]

Ya, it was fuzzy and almost looking like it just shed, so I was going by the triangular head, typical pit viper givesway.

Interrsting factoid- the local gopher snakes defence is its mimicry of rattlesnake markings, inc the ability to flatten its head. Some are observed to rapidly vibrate tail against vegetation to simulate the warning rattle...

Several other species of snakes will do this--ratsnakes and hognose snakes, some water snakes.

 

[Js4fn]

Cecropia moth



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6 and half foot leap

 

[BGpa]

Sitting in our morning coffee spot, Bonnie at my feet sniffing the breeze, stands up, looks over my left shoulder, wags tail...

I look around a bit and spot this nest six feet off the ground about the size of a football I hadnt noticed before...

Saw a small brown birb flitting in and about.
Guessing its this one:

Bushtit Life History, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Bushtits are sprightly, social songbirds that twitter as they fly weakly between shrubs and thickets in western North America. Almost always found in lively flocks, they move constantly, often hanging upside down to pick at insects or spiders on the undersides of leaves. Flocks of Bushtits mix...

www.allaboutbirds.org

 

[BGpa]

Sitting in our morning coffee spot, Bonnie at my feet sniffing the breeze, stands up, looks over my left shoulder, wags tail...

I look around a bit and spot this nest.
Saw a small brown birb flitting in and out
Guessing its this one:

Bushtit Life History, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Bushtits are sprightly, social songbirds that twitter as they fly weakly between shrubs and thickets in western North America. Almost always found in lively flocks, they move constantly, often hanging upside down to pick at insects or spiders on the undersides of leaves. Flocks of Bushtits mix...

www.allaboutbirds.org

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[JanS]

I assume you're going to try to keep Bonnie out of there until they fledge?