Wildlife is comin in!

[dguzzi]

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These guys were caught a few days apart, I really wanted to catch the red squirrels. This is the second Rocky, and a Mink! Not something you see often (loud as a screamin banshee)

I'll add they were released a few miles away, unharmed.

[nc43bsa]

Out of curiosity, where were they caught?

I don't know anywhere near me that I could have caught a wild mink.  Plenty of raccoons around here, though.

[cliffrod]

Be very careful releasing that mink. 

A typical coon (short of having distemper or similar) will hit the road when you open the cage and not look back.  The mink might leave but is is just as likely to come out, turn around, climb you and make you scream like a banshee...  No joke. 

[kballowe]

Hey !

Are you guys seeing any Nauga's ?

I need a few to recover one of my couch cushions.

[dguzzi]

This was in my backyard in Michigan. They all ran off when released, if he was to turn and try to attack me, well....I hope my ninja skill would choke him?

Biggest fear is catching a skunk, not sure how I might deal with that!

[Steve Cas]

Hey !

Are you guys seeing any Nauga's ?

I need a few to recover one of my couch cushions.

I’m pretty sure they are extinct. It’s been years since I’ve seen any in the valley; Naugatuck Valley in CT that is.

[dguzzi]

But they still make the hide?

[kballowe]

top 10 movie plot holes

[bad Chad]

I’m getting the usual fall visitors, spiders, crickets and other more bazar bugs.

[pete roper]

New South Wales is in severe drought conditions, a lot of places are on level six water restrictions, (15 litres of water a day per person, one load of washing, three minute showers, that sort of thing.) and even some major towns are trucking water in. It's only spring, by now we should of had winter rains in the north and spring rains further south, this summer is going to be brutal and one of the side effects is the abundant wildlife will all be coming out of the hills and heading to any remaining pools, dams and water sources. That means even more 'roo and wombat strikes and roads like charnel houses, (And gleeful panel beaters!).

It also means our yard is going to be a writhing mass of tiger and brown snakes until we get good rain as they'll come in for the tank water we put out for the birds. The buggers live and breed over in the cemetery over the road and love our place. Pity we don't love 'em back!

Pete

[Aaron D.]

Skunks aren't too bad, we caught one by mistake. Just speak quietly, gently cover the trap with a blue tarp, then open.

My wife was very brave.

[Gliderjohn]

I'm going to need to set my game camera up to look over my patio. The last few nights something has been dragging small applewood sticks I use in the smoker from a rack. They are spread around and some have a lot of chew marks on them.
GliderJohn

[SmithSwede]

Somewhat related.   I live out in the country about 45 miles east of Dallas, Texas.   My oldest daughter loves critters of all kinds.  She befriended a giant old male raccoon one night by feeding it cat food.  Within a month or so, she’s got a whole troop of raccoons to show up for feeding time around dusk.  It is part of our cycle of life out here.  None of which is remarkable. 

Here’s what is remarkable.   These raccoons often “pay” for the food they get by bringing a small white rock to her.  They get the rocks from our driveway.    They have made quite a pile of white rocks “paying” for their food.   Not every night.  But often.

And no.   They don’t try to use to rocks to mash the food or dip them in water or anything else I can think of.  They just show up with their offering, add it to the pile, and line up for their cat food.

WTH?

Since these small white rocks obviously have instrinsic value when it comes to food, I’m planning to scoop them up and bring them to Dusty for the Okie rally. 

[Gliderjohn]

From SmithSwede:

Since these small white rocks obviously have instrinsic value when it comes to food, I’m planning to scoop them up and bring them to Dusty for the Okie rally.

They will go well with the Indian drum he received at the fall CSM gathering.
GliderJohn

[lti_57]

We get this Guy every now and then
My neighbor snapped this in her secret garden.

[dguzzi]

Yea, the fox aren't to keen on stepping into a trap, at least mine!
  I really don't mind the critters but they like to dig under my deck and have babies. Next up, I hope, Groundhog!   (stange no 'possums)

[larrys]

Rocky don't look too happy about being in that trap. I had one last year that would come at night and stand on the deck rail and drain a hummingbird feeder. I put out a live trap and caught the neighbor's orange cat. He weren't none too happy, either. I made a 1/2"X 1/2" wire grid from solid bare #12 and zip-tied it to the deck rail under the bird feeder. Then I zip-tied a piece of bare #12 to the little rail around the feeder that the hummingbirds perch on. I connected the wire on the feeder to the hot conductor on an extension cord and the neutral to the grid on the rail. Plugged in the cord that night. Around midnight I hear a crash, run out to the deck and see the feeder swinging wildly. Rocky never came back...
Larry

[Sasquatch Jim]

The tally from my havaheart live trap is 71 squirrels 3 possums.  Some years ago I caught a live skunk in my brothers garage.  I approached the trap holding a
6X6 blue plastic tarp in front of me and lay it over the trap.  Since he didn't see me, he didn't spray.  I took him across the road to the neighbors pond and taught him to hold his breath for the rest of his life.  He learned how in one easy lesson and never sprayed.

[Dilliw]

Rocky don't look too happy about being in that trap. I had one last year that would come at night and stand on the deck rail and drain a hummingbird feeder.

I never knew why my hummingbird feeder was draining until I put a camera out.  I thought it was defective, but it was Rocky!  Athletic little critters :)

[Sheepdog]

With the chickens/ducks/guinea fowl, a pond, and the woods right next door, we get a number of visitors. The regulars are the coyotes, bobcats, deer, racoons, rabbits, squirrels, and possums. Of course there are also all manner of raptors, ducks, geese, and herons. All the venomous snakes seem to have gone, but we have a healthy population of water and king snakes. Lately our pineapple guava has been putting out fruit and the possums and squirrels can't resist it...much to the great joy of our dogs. Usually we just find scraps of fur, but the other night we saw an adolescent possum treed by our pack in the guava shrub. We brought the dogs in and put them to bed. Hopefully that little guy ate his fill before he un-assed the AO...

[Guzzistajohn]

Critters everywhere

[nc43bsa]

I made a 1/2"X 1/2" wire grid from solid bare #12 and zip-tied it to the deck rail under the bird feeder. Then I zip-tied a piece of bare #12 to the little rail around the feeder that the hummingbirds perch on. I connected the wire on the feeder to the hot conductor on an extension cord and the neutral to the grid on the rail. Plugged in the cord that night. Around midnight I hear a crash, run out to the deck and see the feeder swinging wildly. Rocky never came back...
Larry

That's what you use a game camera for.   

[JJ]

Welcome to my world!!

[Chuck in Indiana]

Wish I had a video. This morning I had sprinklers running on all the stupid grass seed I've been planting. A mocking bird came hopping down the driveway, then stopped. He looked at the "rain." He turned and looked at the sun shining. You could almost see the wheels turning. "WTF?"  Finally he drank some water off the condensation on the hose and flew away.

[pete roper]

Had this little fella wander over from the cemetery this morning.



He's a foot and a bit long, quite big for a Bluetongue. He been being harassed by a Magpie and was in a foul mood but I couldn't get a pic of his 'Aggression' display where they stick out their huge blue tongue. He was hissing a lot so I didn't risk picking him up as they can give you a nasty nip and none of them are exactly experts in oral hygiene!

Pete

[rdbandkab]

The "hunter" of our two cats brought us a present the other evening.   One poor worn-out mouse.   
I'm hoping I don't get a "present" dropped on my face while I sleep.   We did have a small snake dropped at our feet years ago.

We have the normal zoo of deer, raccoons, turkeys, small birds, chipmunks, and squirrels in our backyard.
On the bike trail I frequent, snakes, deer, fox, turtles and coyote are more the  norm.

richy

[nc43bsa]

My sister once told me that her cat brought a "dead" chipmunk to her front door as a "present."  She made him put it down on the porch, and after a few seconds the "dead" chipmunk took off.

Imagine the hilarity that would have ensued if the cat had brought the present into the house.   

[Guzzistajohn]

This little fella was snoozing in the neighbor's yard this morning, drove my dog CRAZY!

[Penderic]

 

[LowRyter]

The two female hummingbirds left yesterday.  The male left last week.  We'll keep the feeders out for migraters and bees.

But my question is to Pete, will the magpies kill you or the lizard? Both?