Your day's wildlife

[gbb]

Forgot to report yesterday, woke up to a cacophony of magpie 'chack chack chacking', sounded.like two or three right outside in the garden. Blooming noisy things, I was just getting up to shoo them away but was distracted by the doorbell.
Anyway, opened the back door, birds had gone, but there on the back path sat a roasr chicken carcass...aha, somethings(cat probably) dragged the bag out the food recycling bin and the magpies were having an impromptu feast...no wonder they sounded excited.
Blooming mess, Blooming cats, Blooming magpies....

 

[briantrumpet]

More wildlife - when I heard one of my visitors saying "Would you mind getting off my toe please?", I thought he was talking to his partner, but he was talking to this specimen:

 

[briantrumpet]

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The latter is apparently the 'punaise' that crops up in everyday French speech as the toned-down version of "Oh putain!" It's some sort of shield bug.

 

[rockyroller]

mystery critter only seen on nite camera, made a daytime appearance
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anyone identify? Keep in mind it’s eastern Massachusetts

& how would we go about catching it & relocating it?

yup it's fast & the black tip tail is a dead give away. 3:49am this morning. video frames are not great but enough to tell us we still have it

thank goodness for the internet

apparently they can jump too

 

[Profpointy]

Five cormorants in a tree by the river Taff in Cardiff. Struggled to get a clear pic through the leaves so can only see three

 

[Dogtrousers]

yup it's fast & the black tip tail is a dead give away. 3:49am this morning. video frames are not great but enough to tell us we still have it
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thank goodness for the internet
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apparently they can jump too
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Because they're carnivores you might not want to trap/relocate. Unlike rats and the like it won't be going through your garbage or gnawing away at things. But it will be killing things that do.

Unless, of course, you or your neighbours keep chickens. In which case you might be less tolerant.

 

[briantrumpet]

Things that fly...

 

[Rezillo]

...and so the gathering starts prior to their big journey. Clouds of swallows and martins flying round our house this morning, probably in the hundreds at times, yet we've hardly seen any all summer. Noise has been amazing but I've just checked outside and they have all gone!

 

[rockyroller]

weasel seems to be slacking. calling all rodent enthusiast, are these 2 diff. individuals or just 1? apologies for the lack of quality. to me, 1 seems to have a body the size of a paver stone & the other is smaller than a paver stone, including it's tail. is one a mouse & the other a rat? or are they 2 generations of rat or mouse?

they seemed curious about the plastic bags but there's no food waste in them, just yard waste from my mothers house & some other irrelevant assorted litter, including a cpl empty cans or coffee cups, but not many, just 3 or 4 total. they didn't stick around long enough& were last seen scurrying off away from the building

 

[rockyroller]

just putting this here, list of wild legged critters seen on camera out back

1. squirrel
2. chipmunk
3. rabbit
4. raccoon
5. skunk
6. possum
7. fox
8. coyote
9. deer
10. weasel
11. mouse or rat

critter in the woods out back - fisher (aka fisher cat)

 

[FrankCrank]

just putting this here, list of wild legged critters seen on camera out back

1. squirrel
2. chipmunk
3. rabbit
4. raccoon
5. skunk
6. possum
7. fox
8. coyote
9. deer
10. weasel
11. mouse or rat

critter in the woods out back - fisher (aka fisher cat)

You got a jungle out there

Over this way, we get many monitor lizards, some well over two metres in length. Couple of squirrels visit occasionally, then there's snakes of various kinds, cobras and pythons aplenty. Had around half a dozen sightings of otters, so those are quite rare. Rats are way too prevalent, running around in the ceiling void and chewing cables, ongoing battle with the little blighters.

 

[Dogtrousers]

weasel seems to be slacking. calling all rodent enthusiast, are these 2 diff. individuals or just 1? apologies for the lack of quality. to me, 1 seems to have a body the size of a paver stone & the other is smaller than a paver stone, including it's tail. is one a mouse & the other a rat? or are they 2 generations of rat or mouse?

Rats.

It's not impossible that the first/last one might be a mouse. But mice have very skinny tails and are tiny compared to rats. Rats have thick bare tails and are horrible and must die.

 

[rockyroller]

Rats.

It's not impossible that the first/last one might be a mouse. But mice have very skinny tails and are tiny compared to rats. Rats have thick bare tails and are horrible and must die.

so a mouse & a rat? sounds like the beginning of a bar joke

 

[TLW1]

If it’s dead does it count? Dead mole in the local woods on a hard packed path 🤷‍♂️ for once the dogs didn’t want to eat a dead animal

That’s the 4th one I’ve seen in the woods over the last few years

 

[briantrumpet]

Three tiny, pretty moths in the house yesterday & today... the first one was about 8mm wide!