Interesting critters

[SeilerBird]

I had three cats when I moved to Florida but now I have none, they all passed away. In place of cats I have an interesting collection of wild animals that live in my yard most of the time. Strangest of all of them is an anole that lives on my front door steps. Every time I leave here I see him run for the crack between the door and the steps. I don't know why he likes it there, there is no food there.


I also have a male duck that lives on my picnic table.

In the lower right hand corner of this photo is my squirrel feeder. I have a family of squirrels living in the trees on my site. The rest of his family show up occasionally for bird seed I provide.


And of course I have a pair of Sandhill cranes, Ozzie and Harriet, that visit me most every day and stand outside my window and honk at me.


I have an occasional turtle swimming in my pond and crawling about on land.


And a neighborhood tabby:


I also have an Anhinga that fishes in my pond occasionally:

 

[jackiemac]

Sorry your cats are all gone Tom. Great pics of your other pets

 

[Oldgator73]

Our son has about 100 chickens, some ducks, guinnie hens, a pot belly pig, 3 cats and 2 dogs. His black cat that he rescued from under the porch at the community center got run over the other day. So he went to the Grayson County Animal center the other day and got him a new one.

 

[SeilerBird]

I had a baby duck show up this morning. Two days ago I saw a conga line of five just hatched baby ducks down the street from me but could not get a photo. This baby duck was following mama and both were hungry but I didn't have any duck food. Amazon will deliver that on Wednesday.


This guy is about 6 inches long total. Really cute.

 

[LarsMac]

Nice neighborhood you got there.

 

[SeilerBird]

Nice neighborhood you got there.

Yes, that is why I moved here.

 

[JudyJB]

Love your wild neighbors!

Last March, 2022, I shared a campsite in Reed Bingham SP in southern Georgia. A gopher tortoise had dug a large burrow about 6' from my side door, right next to the campsite patio area. I am guessing he or she miscalculated his choice of a home location during the winter, not knowing that neighbors like me would start showing up in the spring. Every time I opened my door and went outside, he or she stuck his head out and hissed at me! I only stayed a couple of nights, so I have no idea if he decided to relocate to a more private place or not.

 

[jymbee]

Yes, that is why I moved here.

Any Gators around?

 

[SeilerBird]

Any Gators around?

I saw a five footer swimming in my backyard lagoon last week.

 

[djw2112]

I think Texas has some of the smallest spiders that exist. I will try to get a pic of one but they are so tiny i dont think they would even show up on a pic. I can bearly see them move looking at them. Some of them i swear are smaller than this "." dot.

 

[Tulecreeper]

I had a baby duck show up this morning. Two days ago I saw a conga line of five just hatched baby ducks down the street from me but could not get a photo. This baby duck was following mama and both were hungry but I didn't have any duck food. Amazon will deliver that on Wednesday.
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This guy is about 6 inches long total. Really cute.

As retired F&W, it goes without saying that I will advise against feeding the animals.

 

[Oldgator73]

As retired F&W, it goes without saying that I will advise against feeding the animals.

Same with kids and guests. The longer you feed them the longer they stay.

 

[Isaac-1]

We just arrived home from a 3 week trip on Saturday to find 3 young kittens living on our back porch and drinking out of a plastic tote we had left outside that had filled with rain water.

 

[tlmgcamp]

Big boy in the backyard lookin' for love a month or so ago

 

[Tulecreeper]

Big boy in the backyard lookin' for love a month or so ago

That's a big bird. My backyard - actually, my property but 100 yards from the house. There were 6 of them hanging around, all looked the same.

 

[NY_Dutch]

We saw both of these neighbors daily on our site at Ft McAllister State Park near Savannah, GA last March. And no, we didn't put out any feed for them. The photo was taken from inside our motorhome with my phone.

 

[DutchmenSport]

Interesting pets there. Sounds like my kind of living! We have wild coyotes and an occasional fox where I live. Lots of birds and we now have 3 chickens.

But this guy showed up one day! No clue were he came from. I did relocate him about 3 miles up the road and placed him in a creek bed though. I haven't seen any of his kin-folk though. Maybe he was a renegade?

 

[Oldgator73]

This little family ate dinner at the empty spot next to us a couple years ago at Shenandoah NP.

 

[Tulecreeper]

Interesting pets there. Sounds like my kind of living! We have wild coyotes and an occasional fox where I live. Lots of birds and we now have 3 chickens.

But this guy showed up one day! No clue were he came from. I did relocate him about 3 miles up the road and placed him in a creek bed though. I haven't seen any of his kin-folk though. Maybe he was a renegade?

Where I currently live (Wstrn AR), they dig little mud burrows in the middle of the field - could be 100's of yards from the nearest water source. There are litle mud mounds above the burrows. Never saw that before. Occasionally, after a heavy rain I will see them wandering around.

 

[Old_Crow]

When neighbors come to visit.