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Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:02:09 PM

kiwisub12

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My Sir and i moved back to my house in the middle of Little Rock, a 60 year old neighbourhood with a lot of mature trees, and mature houses -lol.

The first morning i looked out the window and saw a rabbit in my backyard. Very cute, and somewhat unexpected.

The fourth day i was pulling vines off a climbing rose in the back yard, and found a three foot long Western Ribbon snake. Very beautiful and apparently getting ready to shed because its eye caps were opaque. I let him go after i showed my daughter.

Yesterday i was out cutting out a dead azalea, when the two dogs pounced and got two little things that squealed and died. I couldn't figure out what they were to begin with - no tails and rodent like mouths - they were baby bunnies. Apparently i had uncovered their nest and the dogs grabbed them. Poor little things. At least one got away though.

And for the last - i found a dead rat in the garden. The daughter had put poison under the house for rustling in the walls and ceiling, and it found its intended target.

There seems to be more wildlife than i remember five years ago when i moved in with my Sir. Of course the back yard has been neglected for five years, but there seems to be a palethera of wildlife roaming the city.

So..... what are some of the encounters you have had with wildlife in a city? Funny is good, disturbing ok up to a point.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:05:08 PM

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Hello. Since I cant move to the country- I made my place like it.

The blue spruces look so nice. Getting bigger too. When I finally can move- I wont want to- as I will be a solid forest... LOL.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:10:10 PM

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Bears, mountain lions, deer, fisher, possums, wild turkeys, and so on.
One winter a few deer took to living under my porch, by the dryer vent. It was warm but having them shoot out at 6AM when I go out for a log for the wood stove was a shock.

For some reason I had turkeys on the porch at the bird feeder and they made an effort to get into the garage, where the bird food was. Of course, once the bear started coming around, I stopped feeding the birds. Since bears consider bird feeders to be bear feeders.

Coyote are common and there are two pairs of nesting bald eagles up the mountain. You see them now and then.

Rattlesnakes and copperheads in the rock walls. Just look before you cross one.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:13:10 PM

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Deers, vultures, squirrels, rabbits, geese, ducks, and frogs

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:21:56 PM

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Lions & tigers & bears........oh my

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:24:45 PM

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smdh VP your a nut!

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:39:14 PM

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not in this house, but in a previous one....

wallaby's very very occasionally.
foxes, rabbits, brown snakes, red bellied black snakes, poisonous spiders galore, goanna's, blue tongued lizards, koala once.

sounds like living in a zoo, doesn't it?

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:42:25 PM

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Now im going to be trying to think where that line came from, you evil person

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:46:11 PM

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The Wizard of Oz - of course.

and I forgot about the raccons and possums. Silly me.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 5:47:20 PM

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Ya know, there is a reason why i don't want to live in Oz - its full of nasty poisonous critters - and thats just the people! hehehe.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 6:04:43 PM

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I've been watching chipmunks run around outside my bedroom window all day. There is also a fruit tree right outside, if I don't have to wake up before the sun, it's so nice to rise on my own to the sounds of birds. That is, if they don't actually wake me up.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 6:08:38 PM

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I live in the suburbs of a city and directly behind my house is a wildlife conservation area and nature park. Every single day I find some kind of wild creature in my yard...snakes, field mice, wild turkeys, birds of all sorts, foxes, deer, racoons, box turtles, herons, ducks.

The wild turkeys are the funniest. They like to follow you around and make gobbledy noises.

We've named a family that likes to stay in our yard....

Avery, Aviera and the Aviettes

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 6:11:40 PM

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Oh that is ssoooooooooooooo cool. I would love to live in your house. I get a real kick out of watching wildlife from the window.

As for the wild turkeys following you? I know a couple of doctors who would give their eye teeth to have a turkey follow them when they were hunting. Of course, the obvious question then is who is the bird brain?

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 6:13:33 PM

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I am in suburban Dallas/Fort Worth. A few weeks ago I saw an oppossom in the bushes outside my house. Today, I saw a tortoise in my garden. The lady who takes care of my cats when I am out of town said that she saw a small fox in the park by my home. She said it's a good thing I keep my cats indoors with that fox on the loose.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 6:18:20 PM

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There are supposed to be foxs in my neighbourhood - reported by my kids. I haven't seen them yet.

and i forgot to mention the toads. I love toads - they eat slugs and bugs, and how could you not love something that eats nasties. I was cleaning out from around my (very) small pond, and uncovered a big old toad, who didn't move a muscle! Needless to say, he got left alone, to eat a slug another day.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 6:39:41 PM

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Early one morning last spring while driving to work, I startled two coyotes tearing apart the remains of a deer carcass. They didn't even run away when I pulled up next to them.

I have a very large and very grumpy old possum who lives under my cottage. I caught him coming home one night and it made me wonder just what sort of burrow he has created under my home. I like to imagine something similar to Mr. Badger's place from The Wind in The Willows.

I have a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers who have decided to make their home in a tree about 10 feet from the front of my cottage. They're a very vocal couple...usually around 4 or 5 in the morning

Late last spring, I had a large snapping turtle decide my yard was the perfect spot to lay her eggs. Trust me, you don't argue with a very very large pregnant female snapping turtle when she wants to nest in your space.

I was told by a neighbor that we have bobcats around but the only felines I've seen outside are another neighbor's feral cats. They like to visit through the window with my cats. Come to think of it, there were fewer field mice caught this winter in the have-a-heart traps so maybe feral isn't so bad.

Deer, foxes, raccoons, hawks, skunks, various snakes in the rock walls and an occasional black bear...and I'm only 3 miles from town.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 8:04:28 PM

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The only wildlife where I live, in the very heart of the city, surrounded by concrete and pavement with a number of parks about 15 minutes walking distance from me is birds and such (the magpies are beautiful). However, where I work, deep in the mountains, there is reported to be some wildlife. The only thing I've seen so far are ducks and a goose that inhabit the lake next to my building. I occasionally go and sit by the lake and feed them.

I have been known to open the window of my classroom and yell "what a beautiful day" and hear the flapping of wings as the birdies fly away... and the chuckling of the students behind me. (Does that make me their wildlife? hmmmm)

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 8:47:51 PM

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There are coyotes and foxes in my neighborhood. I saw a fox in my back yard last year.

I have a snake or two that live in the yard as well. Lots of rabbits. And I once found a nest of baby mice (hairless and eyes shut) in the bottom of my compost heap.

And plenty of squirrels. My ex sub carved a jack-o-lantern last year that a hungry squirrel vandalized.

Lots of jays and woodpeckers. And I live only half a mile from a freeway exit.

I love it here.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 10:52:26 PM

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Oh geez, where to start?

"Morning traffic" around here is the 20 or so rabbits and squirrels that scatter when I open my front door. I often have to watch where I walk to keep from stepping on one of the blue belly lizards that come around to beg for mealworms (which I get for my crested and leopard geckos), and sometimes I see a skink or alligator lizard (nasty aggressive, those). The bunnies, squirrels and lizards attract coyotes, rattlesnakes, and various types of hawks, red tails being the most common. We also have a nesting pair of roadrunners that we see several times per week, and great egrets and mallards often make use of our stream. Said stream has a deep spot that is home to 4 koi (washed down from someone's pond upstream during a storm about 2 months ago), minnows, small perch, bullfrogs, and numerous crayfish.

Other wildlife I've spotted on the property: opossums, woodpeckers, box turtles, the biggest bobcat I've ever seen (staring me down mid day, yikes), hawk and sphinx moths, various species of hummingbirds, quail, monarchs, swallowtails, other butterflies and moths, black widows, orb weavers, hobo spiders, finches, tree frogs, gophers, rats and mice. We also keep both desert and russian tortoises.

All this about 2 miles west of a major interstate freeway and less than 10 miles from 3 large towns.

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RE: Urban wildlife - tell me about yours - 5/20/2010 11:21:39 PM

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There's a magpie who likes to fly in through my kitchen window if we forget to shut it. Deeply annoying creature.

My flatmate walked into his room the other day to find it sitting on his Natural Processes notes (he's a biology student). He felt this was appropriate.

We have a fox, several hedgehogs and the most glorious bats-they get all swoopy at dusk. Bristol also has *the* tamest squirrels-they'll come up right close, and then sit and stare at you...

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