Show your Bugs and Critters
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
I do not have a picture but on a few occasions
I have seen a single black squirrel here in East Texas.
And on a trip in Washington state saw a number of black squirrels in a park.
They are known as melanistic squirrels.
My cousin was deer hunting on my place and saw a melanistic buck.
She was too stunned by the black buck to shoot at it.
I have seen a single black squirrel here in East Texas.
And on a trip in Washington state saw a number of black squirrels in a park.
They are known as melanistic squirrels.
My cousin was deer hunting on my place and saw a melanistic buck.
She was too stunned by the black buck to shoot at it.
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Sorry about the photo but it was taken years ago with a crappy phone in a dimly lit basement and I don’t really feel like cleaning a mount/taking another pic…shot this fox squirrel while bow hunting (deer) one morning because three days in a row he would come down a hickory tree next to me and stop on this one particular limb then proceed to bark at me because I was infringing on his area…fox squirrels are very territorial and this one got on my last nerve…what sucked is after I shot him he ran up the tree and wedged himself in a fork before expiring…so I had to get my climbing gear on to retrieve him…this particular tract of land in middle Ga.(Meriwether co.) had more fox squirrels/acre than I’ve ever seen and multiple color combinations of solid black•grey w/black heads•red w/black heads•white w/black heads…unbelievable squirrel hunting
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
Met a red tailed hawk at the nature center at my local state park. It had lost an eye when young and was rehabilitated by a naturalist there. Very beautiful bird.
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Re: Show your Bugs and Critters
Accidentially spooked a rabbit out of the hedge at work a couple weeks ago, not a second after he poked his head oit, hawk got it. Never seen that so up close.
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Part of a population of Geese that never migrate . Dan
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Goal for March-April this year is to get out to the lakes and wetlands around us to see more of the waterfowl migrating through.
We need to get a better long-range lens but we saw a pair of Hooded Merganser and a bunch of ring necked ducks today (plus the usual mallards and Canada geese).
We need to get a better long-range lens but we saw a pair of Hooded Merganser and a bunch of ring necked ducks today (plus the usual mallards and Canada geese).
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Saw this lil dude on a job one chilly morning so I guess he was trying to stay warm and eat the bugs that were attracted to the light…we walked past him a few times carrying gear to the tree before I noticed him
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Pulled cover off pond and already had a Bull Frog in the pond . Hopefully more will,show up . Dan
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Tom vs Jake
And Wile E. looking embarrassed after getting outsmarted by the roadrunner.
And Wile E. looking embarrassed after getting outsmarted by the roadrunner.
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Not sure about this snake . Dan
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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iNaturalist seek app on my iPhone says
Dekay's Snake aka Brownsnake
a small species of colubrid snake.
Dekay's Snake aka Brownsnake
a small species of colubrid snake.
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Thanks Mac ! Picture was taken North of Peoria in landscaping. I have never seen one in my area , but doesn’t mean they are not here . Dan
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Flew in and lit right above me while I was eating lunch
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Holy cow! That's awesome!SaltyCaribbeanDfly wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:41 am
Flew in and lit right above me while I was eating lunch
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Yeah it was after I changed my pantsJSumm wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:21 amHoly cow! That's awesome!SaltyCaribbeanDfly wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:41 am
Flew in and lit right above me while I was eating lunch
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went to a local lake this morning to take some shots over water but had my favorite dock taken . Dan
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Coastal Mud Shrimp hiding beneath an unidentified piece of bone.
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Saw this little guy at work yesterday and as I got closer to take a pic he crouched down to hide…I snapped a couple quick shots then slowly backed out and he never moved