Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?
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@Mik - Consider this:
The trip home:
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Wild
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Cosmo is in the house. She's in the guest room the last couple days and seems to be loving it, although she can't run wild like she did in the yard. Once we fed her once though, she never left our yard again.
The first night inside she slept under the bed. Yesterday she napped by me a couple times and slept by me part of the night, plus a 4 am walkabout for which I was the trail. She's sweet, smart and comes when her name is called. VERY playful.
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Had a screech owl right outside our kitchen windows the other night. Couldn't see him but sure could hear him. First time we've ever had one - I had to use google to even figure out what I was hearing. The cats were SUPER freaked out - it is definitely a spooky thing to hear in the dark.
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Just saved a life. And deprived someone of dinner.
Went outside and heard a bird screeching. Looked over to my neighbor's front lawn and saw a Cooper's hawk on the lawn. Looked like it was holding something down with its talons. I walked towards it and it took off to the south. A now-free Northern flicker took off to the north.
Human messing with nature.
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I wish the hawks here would go after the rats I keep seeing on the bird cam. We've stopped feeding, and the dogs aggressively chase them down. We will not be using rat poison.
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Crow in our native oak tree had a lot to say
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This retention pond with the grasses is next to the Aldi parking lot.
Link to videoAnyone have a clue who the noisemakers are? We thought it might be birds but there wasn't a single one to be seen. I even tossed a small stone into the grasses to see if I could flush anyone out. Nada.
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View out of our living room window:
Both hawks took off when I went out the front door to try to get better photos. The one left its squirrel tartare on the driveway. One of the birds flew back into my neighbor's tree and has been looking at the carcass remnants for the last half hour. I wish he/she would get a hawky bag and take the leftovers home to eat.
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@andyd You know, I'm not entirely certain, but I think they are immature Cooper's hawks. All the photos I could take were of the backs of the birds (from inside the house and through the mini-blinds!), and most of the photos I see online are of the chest and face! But I did see a few online pics of youngsters, and they had those light splotches on the back.
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Red foxes here in Staten Island recently. Wild turkeys have been here for years.
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In a nearby suburb, a critter does what it was born to do.
