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my cat is norris posted:Be so kind as to link that image instead of posting in-line, would you, please? I had a couple recent encounters with birds. This guy was right outside my window a few weeks back.  Then this one got in my house just the the other night somehow.  I am no birdologist, but I think the first is a very young blue jay and the other some kind of sparrow. I'm in Northern Virginia if anyone knows better! I also got some pretty good pictures of 17 year cicadas molting, but that seems to be covered already.
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Hm, I don't have as many good pictures of cicadas as I thought, but I did get this video: 
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YeahTubaMike posted:I am terrified of spiders in general, but I can't help but love jumping spiders and their fuzzy bodies and their many cute little eyes
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YeahTubaMike posted:I love this thread. I'm an arachnophobe who is oddly comforted by all the spider pics. All these pretty spiders, and they're nowhere near me, so I can just sort of "practice" looking at them. Pretty much, at least. A big old wolf spider will still give me the heebie-jeebies.
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I thought you caught one poopin' before I realized it's a feather lol.
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blight rhino posted:so from the few posts I've had in here. I have crows. I feed them in the front yard on my sidewalk with peanuts. I wonder if the time change screwed up that one crow. It still thinks 7:30 is 8:30.
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NTRabbit posted:Someone else identified it for me because it was wrong for the local corvids, currawongs, and butcherbirds, and I had no other answer, but the white parts are only visible with the wings fully extended I love these birds. They're beautiful.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Labs are ground-snufflers, and panvorous. They look very similar to other dogs with their very fluffy tails, but the brain is empty, rather than full of thoughts, like in other animals.
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Blood Nightmaster posted:I found this lil guy having a real one across the street on a neighbor's porch the other day (do not skip the sound!)
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Enfys posted:a great pic of a handsome lad
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Those guys look like guys you don’t gently caress with.
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Whoa  that!
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MrMojok posted:Ah, so it is. Sounds like it’s a good thing to have around (outside, not in my house
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 Terrible picture, sorry, but I rarely have anything interesting to share in here. It's not a bad picture considering I couldn't actually physically see the owl because it was too dark, but my phone picked it up in night mode and zoomed way in. Last night I heard some hooting going on out my window. It's not a sound I know, so I went to investigate. My friend realized it was an owl, and we went out to try to find it. There was actually two, one seemed to be in a tree next door, the other was right in the backyard. We tried to use flashlights but couldn't find it, and then it flew out and across the street to a dead tree in our neighbor's yard, and that's where I got this. They're amazing animals. They fly so quiet and are so good at hiding. My friend went to get a real camera and it flew into a further, leafy tree so we didn't get it.
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my cat is norris posted:Keep an eye out, they may be back! Such cool visitors!!
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free hubcaps posted:MODS?!?
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Guess whose got a bird feeder now? Just look at this magnificent bastard.  
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sexy tiger boobs posted:Nice of you to include eating utensils for them too.
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Got close to a little woodpecker today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUqTpeiisEE
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The Red Queen posted:I can only tell whether they're downy or hairy when they're next to other birds so I can gauge the size.
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McGavin posted:It's an adult Downy Woodpecker. You can tell it isn't a Hairy because the bill is too small.
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These were bullying smaller birds at the feeders all afternoon.   My guesses are grackle and European starling.
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 Pigeons come in black apparently? Not sure how common this is but I never noticed one before. If you look close this one has been banded, so someone is keeping track of it.
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I started feeding crows in hopes they would bring me something but so far all they’ve given me is the sounds of crows cawing outside my house more often.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:speaking of, my sil texted me "omg is this a cockroach??" lol
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I think I saw a catbird feeding another catbird the other day. It looked fully grown but I assumed it was very young and just hadn't quite gotten a handle on this eating thing yet. They were both scrounging around under my bird feeder, but one would periodically go to the other which would open its mouth and then the first one would put something in it. Looked like feeding to me.
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That looks like a pretty big jumper. I don’t think I’ve seen them that big I only see tiny ones, and rarely.
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Amazing photos of a beautiful bird.
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Speaking of squirrels, I've got a group of them running around the big tree in my front yard today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhpXzlalbtM They mostly just go down that branch and jump from the one tree to the other, then back again. I was thinking maybe they're a litter that's getting to explore for the first time? Edit: I like it when they bunch up at around 0:38.
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Cartoon Man posted:Wife spotted an albino squirrel today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_squirrelm Edit: I mean they’re still nowhere near as interesting as an albino squirrel. That’s a really cool find! Murdstone fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Nov 27, 2023 |
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Common brushtail possum? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_brushtail_possum
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