Wild-life photos

[FishyChaos]

I got a better picture of Arnold this morning. He has so much more energy, and is even trying (and failing) to fly. Fingers crossed for a release tomorow or the day after!

He's still pretty small, and has bounced back super quickly, all of which point to him being young and just beat up from a predator.

 

[StarGirl]

Keeping on the Mothra track this beast was on the dumpster at work today. It was as big as my hand Imperial moth.

 

[Lucy]

Keeping on the Mothra track this beast was on the dumpster at work today. It was as big as my hand Imperial moth.

Wow! So pretty AND big!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

One day, we will eat mothra lol
Baby salmonids.


Coastal manroot.

People on the walk: Is it edible?
Conservation district lady giving presentation. I'm not sure.
Lady: It looks like a gourd or cucumber
The very few words I said in 2 hours "NO ITS DEADLY POISONOUS, THE SEEDS WERE LITERALLY USED TO COMMIT SUICIDE.Makes a great soap though. Dig up the root, mash it with some water and whisk it up with a horsetail head until bubbly"

Yep, that's how autistic people socialize lol

 

[StarGirl]

One day, we will eat mothra lol

I think a bird did. There was just wings and a bunch of the powder all over the ground the next day.

 

[Lucy]

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People on the walk: Is it edible?
Conservation district lady giving presentation. I'm not sure.
Lady: It looks like a gourd or cucumber
The very few words I said in 2 hours "NO ITS DEADLY POISONOUS, THE SEEDS WERE LITERALLY USED TO COMMIT SUICIDE.Makes a great soap though. Dig up the root, mash it with some water and whisk it up with a horsetail head until bubbly"

Yep, that's how autistic people socialize lol

That's great, Love it! And that's how people learn there shouldn't be a stigma!

 

[Rose of Sharon]

A Mississippi Kite

 

[BPSabelhaus]

The annual single shaggy parasol. Had I noticed it yesterday, that would have been a great breakfast omelette. But it's dropping spores so I moved it to a better environment for future fruiting

 

[Chiz]

The summer flies are chasing the deer out of the woods-- this one has been hanging around all day looking for snacks.

 

[86 ssinit]

Peregrine Falcon

 

[Fishladyforlife]

Here’s a cottontail rabbit!

 

[86 ssinit]

Deer are growing their antlers!

 

[Rose of Sharon]

This little guy has really grown up. He still comes by now and then to clean up what the birds don't eat. He's very shy, and won't let me anywhere near him for a better pic.

 

[bgarthe]

I merely watched this female Tiger Swallowtail instead of adding it to my collection of 55+ years. I made a vid too that I will post later on.
Our yard has three butterfly gardens along with my koi pond and tons of my favorites…..Hydrangeas.

 

[FishyChaos]

Here's a really great picture I managed to take of two beetles mating on top of a flower

 

[kallililly1973]

I have a nice spider that lives in my outside light that catches everything before it flies in the house. Also my strawberry guard is back and 10x the size he was when I found him 1.5 months ago.and a random dragonfly guarding one of the other garden beds !

 

[Fishfur]

I have a nice spider that lives in my outside light that catches everything before it flies in the house. Also my strawberry guard is back and 10x the size he was when I found him 1.5 months ago.and a random dragonfly guarding one of the other garden beds !

Praying mantis look quite dangerous, don’t they? Interesting critters though and some are truly gorgeous.

Some local wildlife like living in the apartment. I prefer to leave the house spiders be - they catch flies among one or other nuisances.

But lately I find new webs every morning. This morning I walked into a line spun right across the living room! They have done that in the kitchen too - the little critters are working much too hard and while I don’t mind coexisting, it’s getting a little out of hand.

I keep finding very tiny ones - must be hatchlings and new webs appear overnight. They catch a lot of floofy cat hair - two long hair & only one short hair cat here so there is lots of floof flying around.

The adult spiders are maybe 1/4” across the body at most and I might be exaggerating that - the image shows one that’s only about 1/16” across with its legs all pulled up ready to beat a retreat from the nosy human.

That first web was not there last night - upper corner of microwave. Same with the one on the cuttings in cups.

 

[AsShrimpleAsThat]

Here is a Pair of wild mallard ducks we see every year and a rat snake with a frog

 

[AsShrimpleAsThat]

I know right!

 

[kallililly1973]

Praying mantis absolutely do look dangerous but are harmless unless there are other insects around. The king of predator insects.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

It got up to 104 degrees yesterday, and this little guy is doing everything in his power to guard the two hummingbird feeders in the front of the house....

 

[BPSabelhaus]

just a giant house spider. Climbed on my finger and went off into the garden to earn its keep.
After verifying it wasn't a brown recluse.

 

[Fishfur]

Nah, just a giant house spider. Climbed on my finger and went off into the garden to earn its keep.
After verifying it wasn't a brown recluse.

And on the opposite end of the spectrum we have these tiny spiderlings which appear to be selling lots to come build spider condos in my apartment.

I have discovered a gigantic cobweb on the living room ceiling - probably a good 7-8 feet square (just a rough estimate and it’s anything but square) which will take hours to vacuum up since I can only reach a small area of it at a time on the step ladder holding onto the vacuum and then have to move ladder & vacuum over & over.

They are insanely industrious spinners of horror-movie-worthy cobwebs in very short amounts of time.

They’re just wee house spiders but I swear there is a spider real estate agent that’s advertising my place as the spider Shangri La.

An image of an upper corner in the bathroom just one day after it was vacuumed clean and a tiny spiderling in the living room on the emersed grow shelves.

It’s dangling on its thread (or his, her, they, whatever) and there are twenty more at least. I vac those shelves clear of all visible webbing & spiderkind nightly.

If I didn’t I don’t think I’d be able to even see the shelves for the festoons of webbing!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Definitely a nope hill lol I avoid their trail when checking in on the. I watched them build this from scratch over the last 4-5 years. Started as infesting and eating a salmonberry bush literally to the roots. I think the initial antill hole is actually just excavation of the stem and roots. The hole is exactly where the salmonberry was.

I'm a bit protective of it It's located right next to the trail. I'm going to eventually have a sign made educating people on it.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

Just NOPE to all spiders, lol! Just a pic of a hummer to help with the anxiety that the spider pics cause, lol!!!

 

[Fishfur]

lol spiderlings!! Come on just go buy one of those dust devil things on a long stick and start dusting!!7-8 foot cobweb! Spiderlings!! . But yes I will be telling my wife an oil spider spilled all that oil on the garage floor. No way was it my car!!!


I think that hummingbird eating a spider may have helped more!!

They don’t creep me out, which is a good thing I guess. I just would rather suck them into the vac than knock a bunch loose and later find them dangling randomly like some B movie set decorations. .

 

[86 ssinit]

I think that hummingbird eating a spider may have helped more!!

Wait you squashed a praying mantis!! They eat all sorts of bugs! They can even eat those pesky humming birds! You know why they hum? They don’t know the words .

 

[Rose of Sharon]

A hummingbird horde!!! And this is only one of eight feeders. They will stick around a little while, fatten up, and then each separately will move on to the next place on their migration journey.

 

[kallililly1973]

Found someone on my patio last night. So I put em in my basil plant. Looks like he has his night vision on with those pitch black eyes!!

 

[86 ssinit]

Had some bigger birds flying today.
Bald eagles

Belted Kingfshers.


Blue herron

Osprey!

 

[SparkyJones]

Pretty much every morning I get these visitors outside my house. White Ibis I think.


The cat will never win he's been trying for months but they are too smart for him no matter what he tries, he's now going with, "just minding my own business, nothing to see here" rather than hiding and stalking.

 

[SparkyJones]

These guys are a regular occurrence at work, Leiocephalidae curly tail lizard. Non native from the west indies. It's so common I don't really even think of them as wildlife really but thought "hey there's an animal, let's take a picture."

 

[DoubleDutch]

Some European birds

 

[86 ssinit]

What are ya lookin at ya big goon!

 

[Fishladyforlife]

Here is a cat faced spider. That I caught to get it out of a window well. Cool female. She eventually layed eggs.

 

[A201]

It's that time of year again. The backyard is full of geese.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Walked into this going on in the snail tank.

 

[Coradee]

My daughter & son in law are in South Africa, they have just arrived to see this from their room…

I don’t know how far away they are I’ll have to ask.
Today they’ve seen giraffe, rhinos, lions and antelope, can’t wait to see the pics when they get home.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

They look so tiny on the open range lol Really makes them feel fragile. I hate trophy hunting and what it's done to the populations. But OTOH can you imagine actually hunting those as a group with sticks and stones? Something that size wouldn't be an everyday hunt, but more of a village celebration type thing where the animal was honored etc.... Such beautiful and intelligent creatures that have guided us since time immemorial in one way or another. Human social structures were very similar for a long time.

As for the snails, compared to Bettas that's two business people shaking hands and combining assets lol

Snail making a nest for eggs

 

[86 ssinit]

Interesting day today. Had a Merlin fly in.he wasn’t sitting there for a minute when blue jays and flickers showed up to start harassing it. Within minutes there had to be 20 blue jays and flicker chasing this Merlin. Who wasn’t about to be chased and was actively hunting the other birds. It’s was like fighter planes attacking each other right over my head.from somewhere another Merlin got involved and was attacking anything including the first Merlin.

these 3 tried to rest but the Merlin flew right through them.


Went on for about a 1/2 hr no casualties.

 

[Coradee]

This morning started well….., my daughter said he walked right by where she was sitting, what an experience!

 

[Rose of Sharon]

This is Queenie....she who must be obeyed, or avoided at all costs if you are another hummingbird. She has managed to guard and fend off many hummers from getting to "her" feeder. The yellow jackets are horrible right now for some reason, but they don't deter her from her mission. I guess she'll be moving on soon...on her way to sunny Mexico or Central America, or where ever she goes during our winter.
She is a Ruby throated hummer. That is the only kind that we get. And they seem to be the Betta fish of the hummer world, lol...very aggressive at the feeders. I am surprised that we still have as many as we do. By this time last year we were down to just a few, but they seem to be sticking around longer. Maybe it's because of the 90+ degree weather we are still having here.

I tried hanging a humming bird feeder on a regular bird feeder....don't think it is going to work out, lol....not to mention the yellow jackets that are getting on my last nerve!

One of these is going to have to go for sure.

 

[DoubleDutch]

Soms Dutch birds

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Spent the morning planting native plants here with the Puyallup tribe. Saw a sea lion and a kingfisher fishing while working Nice foggy morning that started with a drum and prayer song in Lushootseed. Got nice and dirty, planted about 30 different plants and trees myself Even got a cool T-shirt

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Racoon that the dogs were going insane over.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

I just love these Carolina Chickadees. For a small bird, they make such a loud sound, but they are so fun to watch...

 

[86 ssinit]

Some weekend raptors!

Some other birds

 

[86 ssinit]

Got to say I a year ago I had no idea these guys were around. Also have screech and great horned owls. Thing is you’ve just got to go looking. All of the one minus the Harrier are local. I think I’ve identified 100 birds I’d never even knew existed this year.

 

[Rose of Sharon]

Looked out the window last night to see the moon, and there on the lawn were three trash bandits and a fox! I went outside, and they all scattered. The middle pic is of the two raccoons that went up a tree instead of running across the road. They move so fast that I can't get really good pics of them, but wow, what a surprise!

And now, the skunk is back....

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Daywalker