Post your yard and pond visitors

[newponddiyer]

This is so cool! I would love to have such an amazing visitor!

Beautiful! What should we name him haha

 

[GBBUDD]

That’s funny bird on your hit list. That’s a great idea mouse traps. I wonder would that also work to keeps snakes away.

Won't keep them away but it will probably give them a final resting place yes.

 

[GBBUDD]

I took flat pieces of boards and put small nails sticking up on one side of my pond to help keep the raccoons out after I put the short wire fence and high net attached to that as they were ripping the net to squeeze in through. Now I never see signs of ripped net. I would be afraid the mouse traps might get your frogs or birds etc. That would cost ya too!

Nails sticking out of boards will get me. A mouse trap will get my steel toes.

 

[GBBUDD]

Beautiful! What should we name him haha

Call it what ever you like but the first person that calls it for dinner, you and I will have issues.

 

[newponddiyer]

Won't keep them away but it will probably give them a final resting place yes.

I understand I need a preventative and the mouse traps.

 

[newponddiyer]

Call it what ever you like but the first person that calls it for dinner, you and I will have issues.

Hilarious

 

[newponddiyer]

Nails sticking out of boards will get me. A mouse trap will get my steel toes.

Oh yes I didn’t think of that the frogs and birds don’t want to hurt them

 

[Hound Heaven]

Beautiful! What should we name him haha

It's a bit confusing because there's no visible difference in the male and the female. So I call them both Parent but the owlet is absolutely named Floofy. Which reminds me, I got a pretty good shot of Floofy yesterday

 

[newponddiyer]

Wow!!! Amazing! Niw you have pet owls.

 

[Hound Heaven]

Wow!!! Amazing! Niw you have pet owls.

It sometimes feels that way

 

[BForn79]

Any idea of the species?

I think it's an American bullfrog

 

[GBBUDD]

Oh yes I didn’t think of that the frogs and birds don’t want to hurt them

i'll sacrifice a frog they literally make 10's of thousands at a pop . the damn koi cost me tens of hundreds

 

[GBBUDD]

It's a bit confusing because there's no visible difference in the male and the female. So I call them both Parent but the owlet is absolutely named Floofy. Which reminds me, I got a pretty good shot of Floofy yesterday View attachment 157650

the biggest of eyes with the tiniest of beaks

 

[YShahar]

It sometimes feels that way

I'd call Papa Owl Archimedes, after the Owl in The Once and Future King!

 

[YShahar]

A few days ago, I heard a lot of cawing and squawking from the giant century plant flower spike behind our lot. From my window it looked like two hooded crows were having a fight with a much smaller bird. At first, I suspected the smaller one was a kestrel who'd discovered the crows' nest. But as I watched, the smaller bird started fluttering its wings like a baby bird asking for food. Sure enough one of the crows flew down and deposited something squirmy in baby bird's mouth. Only the baby wasn't a crow. Nor was it really a baby any more.

Rather, it was a full-grown cuckoo bird!

Over the next few days, the cuckoo kept after its adopted parents for food, but eventually they stopped feeding it and would fly off whenever it importuned them. I get the feeling that maybe they finally realized they'd been scammed!

Here's a photo of the cuckoo:

And here's another pond visitor -- a rock hyrax than climbed up on one of my trees in order to eat a rose right off the bush.

Rose, all gone!

Bloody thing sat there and grinned at my after finishing off the rose too!

Supposedly, the closest evolutionary relative to the hyrax is the elephant. Looking at this guy's mugshot, I can well believe it!