well now i know it's harmless, yeah.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Spotted in St James’s Park a while back Greylag goosehttps://i.postimg.cc/3JKtc4yB/0487159-A-143-C-41-C1-8-C05-2-D96-EBCD5683.jpgEgyptian geesehttps://i.postimg.cc/CMCv7HK5/1-DBD0-AD8-980-D-4-A06-9-F47-1-C0-CA36-A8035.jpgDinosaurhttps://i.postimg.cc/FsDT5r3Q/F8071-C45-F265-47-BA-80-F9-67-A70729-D8-E3.jpg
― gyac, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
Last Wednesday I was wilderness hiking and saw a grouse walking on the trail ahead of me. It did not stop long enough for a formal introduction. Later, at lunch, I saw a kestrel fly past. I was on top of a mountainous ridge at 4600 ft above sea level. There was fresh coyote scat on the trail, too.
Lately we have had a few of the local deer (both does and bucks) wander through our back yard. They seem to get restless at this time of year and move about more during the day.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
wild deer started showing up in my area last summer. I wish I'd got a pic at least once, but seeing them is such an oddity for what is a semi-rural area that I'm always too lost in the moment to grab the phone when I see them.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
Came across this badass yesterday.
https://i.imgur.com/rGp2kTV.jpg
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
(Florida Predatory Stinkbug)
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
all 3 of those words make me wince
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
me too! But apparently they are local to me and beneficial eaters of nuisance insects. Unlike the crazy invasive Brown Marmorated Stinkbugs that infest my house in winter time.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
https://imgur.com/gallery/vAvhBC7
I saw a deer on the isle of islay
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
Also, these weirdos
https://i.imgur.com/Z4CyZ4i.gifv
(a pupal ladybug and what I think is a lacewing larva carrying on its back a mixture of lichen, moss, and the corpses of its victims!)
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Z4CyZ4i.gif
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7u5xEJWkAEs77s?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
some yummy caviar spider's eggs I spotted on my hedge this summer.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
“Hi we live in your yard” is also a good thred for this
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
I saw a white morph squirrel in a cemetery last month:
https://i.imgur.com/NMmLFCZ.jpg
Although these squirrels are commonly referred to as "albinos", most of them are likely non-albino squirrels that exhibit a rare white fur coloration known as leucism that is as a result of a recessive gene found within certain eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) populations, and so technically they ought to be referred to as white squirrels, instead of albino.
It was the first time I'd ever seen one, but I dutifully reported my sighting to Untamed Science's white squirrel project. apparently there are towns where residents make an extra effort to feed and shelter white squirrels (even going so far as to trap and release grey ones outside of town to eliminate the competition), which boosts their population over time in what amounts to a sort of selective breeding program. Marionville, Montana is the white squirrel capital of the USA, though theirs tend to be true albinos.
― chips moomin (unregistered), Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
it looks like Andover, Massachusetts (where my squirrel lives) is a known WS enclave:
https://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/white-wonders-andover-is-home-to-a-colony-of-white/article_47009119-03a5-5f6c-b441-420ff3fc12ec.html
― chips moomin (unregistered), Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:09 (five years ago) link
That's great! I was just looking up albino squirrels recently after listening to Weird Al Yankovic's The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota.
The scenery was just so pretty, boy I wish the kids could've seen itBut you can't see out of the side of the carBecause the windows are completely coveredWith the decals from all the places where we've already beenLike Elvis-O-Rama, the Tupperware MuseumThe Boll Weevil Monument and Cranberry WorldThe Shuffleboard Hall Of Fame, Poodle Dog RockAnd The Mecca of Albino Squirrels
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 10 October 2019 08:49 (five years ago) link
somewhere out there is the captain ahab of squirrels, running the untamed science project
these are all gr8, mad props to that camouflage bark bug and of course our universal friend the dark dinosaur
― imago, Thursday, 10 October 2019 08:52 (five years ago) link
pretty sure that was a coyote that ran in front of my car this evening. don't think i've seen one in an urban area like that before!
― circles, Friday, 11 October 2019 03:09 (five years ago) link
Where are you/near what city?There's a tract of "state trust" undeveloped land behind my house so I often hear a whole pack of coyotes going berserk in the middle of the night
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 October 2019 04:47 (five years ago) link
i don't see unexpected creatures very often but i hear them, especially at night
mostly i don't know what they are sadly, they can't all be horrible geese or urban vixens in heat
― mark s, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Heraclitus: 'Nature loves to hide.'
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
Coyote was in a semi industrial area in Kansas City. It is near a creek with railroad tracks that parallel it, so that might provide a good corridor for coyote movement.
― circles, Friday, 11 October 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
this afternoon I spotted a trio of white-tailed deer in the woods at the border of a condo complex:
https://i.imgur.com/nKKFmP0.jpg
they ran off when a lady with a dog walked by, only to reappear with seven of their friends in an adjacent field about 15 minutes later. I got a few more shots of them just before they raced around the perimeter of the field and back into the woods.
https://i.imgur.com/EDLzoJQ.jpg
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
A couple of days ago a bunny darted away from me as I came out our basement door. It flashed away so fast I thought it was just one of our neighborhood squirrels, except it ran into our garage, which is where I was going. When I came through the garage door I saw it hunkered by some flower pots, trembling, so I spoke to it reassuringly and left quietly.
I often see them in our yard, because they live in the empty woodlot across a dead-end one lane road that adjoins our yard. They come over to eat the dandelions. It's rare to see one this early in the year, though.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 14 February 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link
Saw what I’m pretty sure were three turkey vultures sitting in a tree this morning while I was driving to work
― circles, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
Was it a dead tree?
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link
Probably not, but none of the trees have leaves yet, so it’s hard to tell at a glance
― circles, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
Sorry, that was an obscure campfire song joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW77-qleewM
― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 10:58 (four years ago) link
Took a walk with my daughter down to the river on Saturday and the gorgeous weather this weekend brought out all kinds of animal life, most of which I wasn't able to take a picture of.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Monday, 4 May 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
In a smallish park (about 200 x 800m) in the middle of suburbia (though linked to other open spaces) a muntjac deer dashing not particularly quickly across the grass between two wooded areas. Then a heron flying overhead and landing in a stream about 20m away, later standing and watching while we were about 10m away, before flying off. Also cabbage whites, a speckled wood, orange tip, and brimstone.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
very grand!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
I've found a couple of monster stag beetles in the garden over the last few days. We've got railway sleepers in a few places, a couple of which have rotted, so I wonder if they've been nesting in there. One is easily the biggest I've seen and christ he was strong - was properly trying to have me through my gardening gloves. Awesome. The downside is my idiot cat who keeps hassling them: he's tried to bring two in, in the last two nights, and I don't really know what else to do - 'they're endangered, you hairy idiot!' isn't working.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
Just to follow this up, I'm sat outside tonight (amazing stitch of a new moon just above the horizon) and there's a symphony of stag beetles buzzing and clattering across the purpling sky - maybe 4 or 5 different specimens and they're such awful fliers, like helicopters in a hurricane. They keep crashing into the back door, or landing in the hosters - each time throttling the wings and sounding entirely confused about the whole endeavour. What a daft, magnificent creature.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
brings me back to my youth scampering about nature reserves :) i didn't know they were that endangered! but like greenfinches or frogs i guess there's a reason i rarely see them nowadays
― imago, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:24 (four years ago) link
today i saw a couple turkeys in a park where i had never seen them before. they were running too fast to get pictures, and one of them took flight before i lost sight of it. they definitely seem more like small dinosaurs than most birds do.
― circles, Saturday, 1 May 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/b9ccrWY.jpg
Mottled Tortoise Beetle
Does anyone fuck with the iNaturalist app? I just started in the last week or so and haven't totally got the hang of it. But it's like having a Pokedex in your pocket - does automated lookups of pictures that you upload. It isn't always correct, but then there's a social component where other users can check out your pics and suggest identifications.
― peace, man, Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
This little guy, a northern water snake. They are common around here and frequently confused with copperheads, but are totally harmless.
Also, learned that "totally harmless" isn't the best descriptor for northern water snakes, since they are pretty aggressive and will bite if you fuck with them. But they are non-venomous.
― peace, man, Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
hummingbird hawk moth yesterday
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/default/files/styles/node_hero_default/public/2018-01/Hummingbird%20Hawkmoth%202%20%28c%29%20Derek%20Moore.jpg
(not my pic)
― At Easter I had a fall. I don't know whether to laugh or cry (ledge), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:09 (three years ago) link
Sweet! I saw one of those once - was very confusing, like looking at a platypus.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
Jealous of you both, having just learned of the existence of hummingbird moths a few weeks ago.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
Ha saw hummingbird moth for first time ever few weeks ago. In Creed CO. Got a great "live" pic of it feeding on flowers. Didn't know that's what it was til now.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
Creede
1st one came and drank and fed on spilled bird seed and left. 1/2 hour later came back with a friend!https://imgur.com/a/SLtB6ViPeccaries aka javelinas
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 13 October 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
Cool! I saw a snowberry clearwing this summer (on a trip to Six Flags, of all places).
https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/150726474/original.jpeg?1628965535
― peace, man, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
Hacking away at some neighbours bamboo that was encroaching on our property, I was alarmed by a rather agitated and forceful flapping. I looked up to see I'd exposed a wood pigeon and her large adult son or daughter sitting in their nest. Not the most expressive of birds, they carried on sitting there mutely while i showed them to my daughter. Then we saw two ladybirds having sex on the slide.
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Monday, 9 May 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
nature dogging
― Ste, Monday, 9 May 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
not a sighting, because lol nocturnal, but i heard great horned owls in my neighborhood last week!! and also back in march! in march there were 2 hooting to each other, this last time just 1 i think. did you know that the pointy bits on top of their heads are called PLUMICORNS and their eyes are CONICAL instead of spheres like ours?!?! so much love 4 owls, the loveliest fowls
― Society for the Preservation of (cat), Sunday, 15 May 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
I did not know that owls had conical eyes! Last week I learned that - for tawny owls at least - the females go 'twit' and the males go 'to-woo'.
On the basis that mundane back garden nature sightings are better than none:
Saw the mum and baby fat teenage pigeon from above sitting on our fence. The mum flew off to another bit of fence and her child followed her, nuzzling up and presumably saying 'gimme some food'. The mum flew off again, got followed again. And again. And again. Very much like the current relationship between my wife and our youngest daughter. At one point, intentionally or otherwise, the baby flapped her wing over mum's back so it looked like she was giving her a cuddle.
A month or so ago we got a garden pond - v small, 50cm across. Finally saw a frog! And some tiny - barely 2mm long - fish or fish-like creatures. My question is, how did they get there? Where did they come from and how did they travel?
― buffalo tomozzarella (ledge), Friday, 20 May 2022 07:47 (two years ago) link
Have you put plants in the pond? maybe eggs attached to the plants?
― Ste, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link
Could they be tadpoles?
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:19 (two years ago) link
8 magpies and another 3 this morning. children's ITV themes won't help you here.
foxcub and parent on bowling green too, disobeying the rules.
― koogs, Monday, 1 July 2024 07:00 (three months ago) link
3 + 8 + 4 magpies in the park this morning. i get the impression that some of these are new and that there's teaching going on here. the young magpies are about 80% the size of the older ones and slightly neater.
Eight for a wish,Nine for a kiss,Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss,Eleven for health,Twelve for wealth,Thirteen beware it's the devil himself.
(but there are lots of variants especially for higher numbers)
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 07:31 (three months ago) link
I was well situated for wildlife last week, deep in a remote part of an Oregon wilderness area. I saw scat from black bear, cougar, bobcat, elk, and coyote, but the real fun is seeing the animals themselves, not just droppings or tracks.
On my last evening, camped six miles from a trailhead, a snowshoe hare began feeding on the edge of my campsite. At first it was skittish and ran away when I spoke to it, but it kept returning. Each time it seemed a bit braver and began looking at me directly while slowly hopping toward me, until it at last approached about 25 feet away while I was brushing my teeth and about to get into my tent. Everything about its behavior indicated it was consumed by a burning curiosity about me. I think it was still young and I was the first human it had seen up close.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 22:59 (three months ago) link
twenty (or twenty one) magpies in the park this morning, too many to accurately count. and another one between the park and the flat.
highlight of saturday's twice-as-long-as-normal walk were the housemartins in barnes. none the north side of the river, looked like the nests there had been removed, but there were two or three on the south side, all being visited by multiple birds every 4 or 5 seconds.
― koogs, Monday, 29 July 2024 07:39 (three months ago) link
omg, we just went to norfolk for the weekend and i had been hoping to see house martins (said location and said birds having awakened my love of ornithology 31 years ago). didn't see any, but on the last day a walk down the coast from sheringham to west runton revealed a clifftop colony of sand martins :)
― imago, Monday, 29 July 2024 07:49 (three months ago) link
last year when i did the same walk it was earlier in the year and the tide was out and you could see them picking up mud from the thames shoreline and flying it back
― koogs, Monday, 29 July 2024 07:56 (three months ago) link
A couple of juvenile long-eared owls squeaking away with abandon at dusk in Phoenix Park. We just about spotted one of them roosting before it flapped away
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 12:21 (three months ago) link
Hares. One fairly close in a field by a country road, we stopped the car to take a look. Then in the field where we were camping they would come out at dusk to nibble on the grass. They can really flatten themselves down when they get spooked but not spooked enough to run off.
― ledge, Monday, 2 September 2024 09:02 (one month ago) link
tharn love a hare
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 2 September 2024 14:53 (one month ago) link
Hares are definitely one of those animals I *thought* I'd seen but had only seen biggish rabbits. Then you see a real hare and you instantly know - the size, the lope, the aura of the things. Bloody love a hare.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 2 September 2024 16:17 (one month ago) link
A pair of Coopers hawks have taken up in a small wooded open space where I take my dog. Through the summer, they would regularly make their call buy have grown quiet in the last few weeks. But one said hi to us this. morning!
― fajita seas, Monday, 2 September 2024 16:45 (one month ago) link
We stayed in a cabin by a lake in Kaslo this summer, a little town in the Kootenays west of Calgary. We sat out on the deck in the evenings and one time I could see our friend squinting into the trees that separated the cabin from the house next door. Eventually she said, 'oh shit, it's a bear'. It was a black bear and probably about 7 or 8 metres away but what with the trees and the ditch separating the properties, it felt further and not threatening. It sniffed at us a few times and sloped off, presumably looking for some bins to rifle.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 2 September 2024 20:02 (one month ago) link
3 1/3 mile riverside walk and all we saw was a duck, plus squirrels
― pink-haired Marxist (sleeve), Monday, 2 September 2024 20:22 (one month ago) link
Ran past a muntjac deer, close enough to touch. It was on the same path, trying to get out the way but it couldn't find a gap in the hedge!
― ledge, Thursday, 5 September 2024 09:27 (one month ago) link
A couple of weeks ago, I was taking a walk in a wooded area when I spotted this egg mass that looked very familiar.
https://i.imgur.com/E6uDOrA.jpeg
It belongs to the North American Wheel Bug. A couple years ago, walking in those same woods, I ran into these two guys:
https://i.imgur.com/hBTIMB0.jpeg
Wheel Bug nymphs! I was so struck by them at the time. Apex predators of the insect world, they looked like young lions or something, relaxing on a leaf instead of swooshing their tails on the savannah after a big hunt. This was a deeply memorable experience for me, and I've wanted to see an adult specimen ever since. With the recent sighting of the egg mass, I planned to go back to those woods soon and maybe try to watch some of the babies as they grew up.
But this past Sunday, I was walking home from my wife's parents' house (a few blocks away), and look who walked across the street in front of me!
https://i.imgur.com/CkG5klS.jpeg
The picture is not as good, since he was on noontime asphalt instead of a more sylvan setting, but I was thrilled to have the opportunity to make its acquaintance. This encounter was even cooler because it occurred next to a playground and all my photographing and fussing got the attention of a little boy and his grandma. They came over to investigate and I talked with them about insects for a few minutes.
I've been doing amateur insect observations for a few years now, and this year has had a much lower volume of finds for me. Some of that is due to weather patterns around here this year, and some of it might be that I've been ignoring insects that I've seen a dozen times before. But seeing this North American Wheel Bug really lifted my spirits.
― peace, man, Friday, 6 September 2024 18:51 (one month ago) link
yesterday a hawk carrying a pigeon swooped about three feet in front of my face and disappeared into the trees by the freeway.. I think it was a Cooper's, not a red tailed
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 16 September 2024 19:21 (one month ago) link
peace, man, i found a wheel bug in july hanging out on some ironweed, definitely cool to see. i'm sure people who know where to look can find them easily, but they're a once every few years sighting for me.
― circles, Tuesday, 17 September 2024 14:33 (one month ago) link
Andy, that is an awesome sighting! I live near the water, so we sometimes see Ospreys flying around with stunned fish in their talons. I hadn't seen any bird-on-bird predation until earlier this year, when I saw a crow robbing some smaller birds' nest. There was a huge commotion from the other birds, but they didn't pose any threat to the crow, who carried away a tender morsel.
A few weeks ago, I saw some aerial acrobatics as a male cardinal attempted to take down a very large, flying praying mantis. The mantis glided to safety in a hedge, but it was one of the weirdest nature sightings I've seen.
Circles, I'm glad to find someone else who appreciates wheel bugs!
I had a really cool nature sighting this weekend, but I'll have to come back to it when I have time to type it up.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link
Ok, so my daughter has always been a nature girl, but in the last few years, as I've gotten interested in insects, she has followed suit. She rescues spiders from her classrooms at school, pets honeybees as they sip on flowers, but her favorite thing is moths, because she's a nighttime spooky kid. So last month, we started moth trapping, following this kid's instructions, essentially: https://antboyxander.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/build-your-own-low-budget-moth-trap/
Last Friday night, we set up the bucket trap at my mother-in-law's house, because our home is on a small lot and surrounded by street lights and neighbors' porch lights, whereas they live on a creek and have more darkness and woods. Here are a few highlights from last week's collection:
https://i.imgur.com/mfbnOBt.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/wQRu2oi.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/HXTzMob.jpeg
However, the coolest thing we saw that day was before we even checked the trap. Down in the creek, we heard a lot of splashing around. Our first thought was maybe a heron feeding on fish, but as we got closer, we saw two North American River Otters! Only one is pictured in the blurry gifs here, because when they became aware of us, they made a hasty exit. A few years ago, I had a "did I really see that?" kind of sighting; just a head briefly above water around twilight. But this time, we got a clear view of their size and they were playing together like otters do (as my daughter said, "are they fighting or, uh, trying to be friends?"
https://i.imgur.com/1HTHIdn.gifhttps://i.imgur.com/ATxyj6H.gif
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 September 2024 12:51 (one month ago) link
That is fucking awesome. Your kid is lucky to have you!
Moths & Otters is now the name of my new blackgaze solo project.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Thursday, 19 September 2024 12:58 (one month ago) link
lol. I like it.
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 September 2024 13:00 (one month ago) link
amazing! i see beavers swimming around in the different lakes and ponds i frequent but have never seen a river otter in the wild, awesome.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 September 2024 13:29 (one month ago) link
yesterday I took a lovely bike ride through a delta wetland reserve near out house and saw ducks, geese, cormorants, an egret, and a blue heron.
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 19 September 2024 14:41 (one month ago) link
I love when I look out at the water and a cormorant just pops up from out of nowhere, having been diving under the water for god knows how long searching for fish. Always a cool surprise.
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 September 2024 15:28 (one month ago) link
I like how they all hang out together looking evil
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, 19 September 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link
I've only ever seen them solo! But yeah, checking out a few photos online, they look like a formidable goth gang.
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 September 2024 16:19 (one month ago) link
Those moth photos are great, especially the black and white dude.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 19 September 2024 16:28 (one month ago) link
A tiger moth from the Apantesis genus. That was our favorite as well.
― peace, man, Thursday, 19 September 2024 16:43 (one month ago) link
I actually have a freaky horror novel called The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory (1986).. it's pretty good!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 19 September 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
― go polish your nose ring (sleeve), Thursday, September 19, 2024 11:31 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
gotta get on that morning turkey vulture tip
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 September 2024 00:28 (one month ago) link
just watched a bobcat stalking around on the big open meadow hill outside the window of my parents' condo!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:58 (two days ago) link
That's so cool! I would love to see one.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 17:49 (two days ago) link
There are thousands & thousands of winged termites coming out of the ground in front of my building and flying away... they must know it's halloween
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 31 October 2024 18:54 (four hours ago) link
I think they're termites, they look more like ants with wings
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 31 October 2024 18:55 (four hours ago) link
Sounds like ant queens and drones making their mating flights.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 31 October 2024 19:11 (four hours ago) link
it's a national holiday in England
https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/flying-ant-day-2024-has-arrived-heres-how-long-the-swarms-last-and-why-they-appear-071824
― koogs, Thursday, 31 October 2024 19:54 (three hours ago) link
my backyard has a chipmunk who caers not whether I walk past it
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 October 2024 20:19 (three hours ago) link
that's impressive, all the ones I have ever seen have been super shy and skittish
― dmt taking comedian podcaster (sleeve), Thursday, 31 October 2024 20:21 (three hours ago) link
I just walked past a park that had a completely separate flying ant swarm... I guess today's the day
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 31 October 2024 20:55 (two hours ago) link
wild! TIL
― dmt taking comedian podcaster (sleeve), Thursday, 31 October 2024 21:00 (two hours ago) link