Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?

[Steve Miller]

Found a baby raccoon on the back steps last week. It’s alive but appeared to be hurt. Mama raccoon (presumably) was close by and snarled/hissed at us if we tried to open the door.

Called the city to summon animal control. Turns out that department doesn’t exist here and the only thing they could offer was to send the police around to shoot it. Disposal at that point would be up to us.

Didn't seem like a great solution so we left them alone for a few hours and they disappeared.

[rustyfingers]

Argument between a female red-bellied woodpecker and a blue jay early this morning caught on camera

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[Mik]

Cicadas. Millions and millions and millions of cicadas. Driving home once we hit Warren County was like a cicada meteor shower, whap! Crunch! Whap!

[RealPlayer]

Koi fish. I guess some jerk dumped them in the park lake.

Turkeys.

House centipedes.

[Piano*Dad]

House centipedes ...

[Steve Miller]

@wtg

[rustyfingers]

Lots of birdsong today.

[pique]

Bluebirds galore. Saw a red fox standing right beside the road. We have a red tailed hawk in our woods that is getting regularly dive bombed by magpies. We hear him screaming every day. Can't wait to see what turns up on Mr. Pique's new smart bird feeder (it arrived yesterday. His birthday is the 18th!)

[rustyfingers]

We get bluebirds around here, but I've only seen one. They are so pretty.

This guy's wiry tail though

[rustyfingers]

Black-capped chickadee checking out a new flavor of suet. State bird of Massachusetts.

[wtg]

@rustyfingers Love chickadees! Up in Door County I was able to get them to perch on my hand if I held out a palm full of sunflower seeds. I was surprised they were so trusting.

[rustyfingers]

Ours are a little flighty. (See what I did there?)

[AndyD]

Red foxes in London are semi-tame

[wtg]

@AndyD Sweet! We have the occasional red fox and coyotes come through our neighborhood. We live less than a block away from a cemetery which we know these guys call home.

Tons of blue jays here. We used to see a lot of them but some years ago their numbers were greatly reduced when West Nile virus came into our area. Jays and their fellow crows are apparently very susceptible. They are back in force.

And the goldfinches are visiting my bird baths. Rain has been scarce here so I think we're seeing a lot more visits because of our water oasis.

[AndyD]

Greenfinches after seeds (goldfinches are here but fly overhead twittering and rarely seen to visit our Niger seed feeder)

[wtg]

Didn't have my phone with me to snap a pic but just saw a Northern flicker having a drink. He was maybe five feet away from me. Internet photo:

And a couple of hairy woodpeckers pecking their way up our maple tree. I hope that's not a bad sign for the tree...

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@AndyD

Here's the American Goldfinch:

Am assuming your goldfinches are a different species?

[AndyD]

Oh yes.
You all realise when you post about a bird it's exotic to me! Even chickadee, which are like our tit family.

[Bernard]

I'm loving all these beautiful sightings and pictures. I saw a deer the other day, which is quite rare here on my property. In the years I've been here I've only seen them 2 or 3 times. Didn't have my camera handy, though.