Nature & Wildlife Thread

[j.w]

@addy1 yay the bees will have access to water and nice looking pond setup. Neat snake shot!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

This Turkey Vulture was tearing something apart in the backyard. Not often they land around here, but I have been seeing them fly over a lot the past few weeks.
Fun fact, the thing in the background is the female duck that's nesting by my pond. Once again, she got chased away by a male that doesn't want her around. She chose to land in the neighbors yard by a puddle.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Well now to add to the excitement...................a snake doing what snakes do and all other predators, eat..............felt bad for the frog, there were a whole lot of them now one less.
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Not my pond, We put some bees on their yard.

It's the circle of life. Hate to see the frog go through that, but also nice to see the snake get a meal. I couldn't imagine having to hunt for food, especially with no arms or legs!
We're lucky that we're civilized enough to have grocery stores.

 

[j.w]

Would be funny tho if we had to sneak around trying to get food and snakes went to grocery stores. I'm trying to picture that. Snakes w/their little camera's shooting photo's of us hunting

 

[tbendl]

How do you know that they don't do that now? Maybe it's an itty bitty camouflage snake go pro

 

[addy1]

I went out to check our swarm traps, I have one in a black locust, one in a maple and one on the deck.

This one is out of commission for a bit............................. a cute little bird made a nice home in it

I have net bags of quilt batting hanging in trees for them to use, looks like it took advantage of the batting.

 

[j.w]

How neat is that @addy1

 

[tbendl]

What's a swarm trap Addy?

 

[addy1]

What's a swarm trap Addy?

We bait a box, hive body, the thing that looks sort of like a hole in a tree, with brood comb, wax mixed with lemon grass and hope if our bee hive swarms it will make that its home. That way we do not lose the bees, gain a new hive. If they swarm and go away the chances of living in the wild is very low.

 

[tbendl]

Oh that's pretty cool, like a fort for runaway kids... Lol

 

[HARO]

Lake Ontario, Port Hope, ON. Water is 2' higher than normal. The area in the middle of the picture is a nature trail, normally 25' from the water! The trail is now closed, but the waterfowl love the adjoining marsh!

This fella was apparently trying to figure out how he ever got INTO the totally fenced area!
John

 

[JBtheExplorer]

This afternoon I went in the woods. Walked through a field to get a few native plant photos. I've gotten ticks in the same field before, but what could go wrong? I also wanted to see if I could find any snakes, but nothing to be found.

Oh, and here's five minutes ago.

Funny how it's been crawling on my clothes all day without me knowing. Actually, "funny" isn't the word I'd use. I found it on my bedroom door, where I hung my hoodie. The worst part is not knowing if it was the only one. I'm now paranoid, as I usually get when I find one. Can't stand the damn things. If there were any creature I wish didn't exist, this would be the one. Even if they didn't carry lyme disease, they'd still creep me out. The fact that they do have Lyme disease makes it that much worse.

 

[HARO]

The fact that they do have Lyme disease makes it that much worse.

Look up Powassan Virus. You'll love the little chiggers even more!!!
John

 

[addy1]

A few of the residents of Assateague Island, did a short nature walk.

Love the white feathers flowing from its head!

 

[MitchM]

A Great Grey Owl seems to like our Davis Weather station for a place to perch.