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tiny little eggshell!  admittedly, not a critter. but still neat 
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Oh I love ladyslippers!
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May 26, 2021 20:35
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Jacksonville, NC. Garter snake? Five step viper???
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May 26, 2021 20:36
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i'm no snakeologist but that's no garter snake
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May 26, 2021 20:46
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The true test is trying to wear him as a garter, of course. If he falls off then it's probably a yellow rat snake
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May 26, 2021 21:01
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i like nice words
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I’m getting a rat snake vibe but I only have western field guides right now.
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May 26, 2021 21:04
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Oh yeah definitely appears to be a rat snake. For some reason rat snakes weren't coming up on any of the "snakes of North Carolina" pages I looked at. Thanks, good to know it won't murder my dogs.
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May 26, 2021 21:30
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm not sure if it counts, but just yesterday the flickers here started their yearly ritual of pecking the poo poo out of the plumbing vents on my roof presumably as a mating ritual. Last year I thought an inconsiderate neighbor was using an air ratchet at odd intervals until I finally figured out it was the birds. It took me like three years to realize it was a bird and not an inconsiderate neighbor. 
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May 26, 2021 22:10
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Forgive the potato quality of my phone camera, but here is a pic from a couple hours ago during a walk at a local park. In the bottom right is a green heron, top left is a blue heron.
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May 30, 2021 05:32
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Nice find!
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May 30, 2021 14:51
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Forgive the potato quality of my phone camera, but here is a pic from a couple hours ago during a walk at a local park. In the bottom right is a green heron, top left is a blue heron. You still need the yellow heron, black heron, red heron, and pink heron to form the heron megazord.
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May 30, 2021 15:35
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 Heard a thunk and looked out the window to watch this cooper's hawk snatch this finch he'd flushed into the glass   Things are progressing nicely w/ my crow friend. He comes when he sees me or when I whistle if he's in the area. There aren't really a lot of crows around and I've figured out that if I can hear crows at all, I can go outside and whistle up into the air and he'll be around in a minute. And he'll come straight down and eat while I'm out there now. I'm pretty amazed at how quickly he's warmed up to me just since march or whenever we started.
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May 30, 2021 16:13
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I found another snake. I was only able to get a bad picture because it was not happy with me (crunched up, widened neck, and hissing) and I didn't want to get too close with my garbage phone. Greenish-yellow, black spots, flat neck when upset. Lower Northern Michigan. Might be an Eastern Hog-nose?
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May 30, 2021 18:15
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McGavin posted:You still need the yellow heron, black heron, red heron, and pink heron to form the heron megazord. No no, the blue, pink, red, black & yellow made the standard Heronzord...green combined to make the Super Dragon Heronzord
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May 30, 2021 18:55
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Actuarial Fables posted:I found another snake. I was only able to get a bad picture because it was not happy with me (crunched up, widened neck, and hissing) and I didn't want to get too close with my garbage phone. It's very possible, especially given the dramatics.
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May 30, 2021 19:02
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my cat is norris posted:It's very possible, especially given the dramatics. Pointy face, hood, blotchy, that’s my pick
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May 31, 2021 04:04
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Found these fellas today in Astoria, OR Roomate took the photos, idk why he couldnt focus this  These snails were really pretty with the pink and green streaks and when I walked out into the surf there were tons of them with their soft-bits spread out really flat and wide like they were using it to get dragged around by the water
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May 31, 2021 04:18
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Astoria! I used to live there! Now I'm a cool south Oregon coast guy 
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May 31, 2021 04:21
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Literally A Person posted:Astoria! I used to live there! Its a really pretty town, I love the coast and all its horrible place names. Saw "Dismal Nitch" today
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May 31, 2021 04:23
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Speaking of the southern Oregon coast is there a reason this rat: Would be acting really strange in my backyard. Like it's paralyzed or something. My cats won't get near it and it won't run away. It let me just walk up and take that picture. A rat. Like the bad kind.
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May 31, 2021 04:29
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Literally A Person posted:Speaking of the southern Oregon coast is there a reason this rat: Small guys like that dont usually get rabies, but its not impossible, it might also just be sick with something else or has a head injury  it doesnt look like a domestic rat so its probably not someone's escaped pet. I know with pet rats having poofed out fur like that is usually a really bad sign.
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May 31, 2021 04:34
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Literally A Person posted:Speaking of the southern Oregon coast is there a reason this rat: You probably have a neighbor using rat poison. Rats get sluggish and then some unsuspecting fox or hawk or owl (or someone’s dog) eats it and gets hosed. E: check out https://www.raptorsarethesolution.org BetterLekNextTime fucked around with this message at 05:20 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 05:12
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Bismuth posted:Its a really pretty town, I love the coast and all its horrible place names. Saw "Dismal Nitch" today Astoria is one of the loveliest places I've ever visited. I fed seagulls in flight by hand from the car window while crossing the bridge into WA and when we went to check out the Goonies house a neighbor offered to give us a tour up it's driveway in exchange for beer and weed Tarantula and scorpion corpses I found in central Nevada last fall     The absolute fuzziest Japanese beetles. There were tons of them clinging to bunchgrass culms warming their bellies in the sun. Invasive as gently caress but they're pretty adorable       Huge carpenter bee warming up in the greenhouse. I thought she might be stuck but she zipped right out the window the moment I annoyed her enough to convince her to leave, pretty good sense of direction. That's a massive pepper leaf, she was about the size of a half-dollar.    There she's waving her legs at me and buzzing in an aggravated manner once I got too close
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May 31, 2021 05:52
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we have a shitload of carpenter bees around(and in parts of) our house, and I love that when I put my dog out back, the ones out there follow her around, seemingly fascinated by this big black thing moving around. they hover like drones, occasionally flitting to a new spot to hover in to get a better viewing angle I guess.treat posted:Tarantula and scorpion corpses I found in central Nevada last fall
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May 31, 2021 05:56
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Uhhh that fuzz on them beetles has gotta be a fungus or something right? Normally they’re super shiny and smooth
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May 31, 2021 05:57
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BetterLekNextTime posted:You probably have a neighbor using rat poison. Rats get sluggish and then some unsuspecting fox or hawk or owl (or someone’s dog) eats it and gets hosed. Oh great. Reading this is worrying me a lot. Usually people around here use cats to do that kind of pest control so the prospect of little poison bombs running around is extremely unsettling.
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May 31, 2021 06:09
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Those are little bear beetles.
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May 31, 2021 06:15
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treat posted:Huge carpenter bee warming up in the greenhouse. I thought she might be stuck but she zipped right out the window the moment I annoyed her enough to convince her to leave, pretty good sense of direction. That's a massive pepper leaf, she was about the size of a half-dollar. This is a bumble bee, not carpenter bee. Where were these pictures taken? I want to know what this species is. Somewhere from midwest to northeast North America? Looks like Bombus bimaculatus, but the wings are obscuring the smoking gun feature for that species. The face coloration is real odd though. They're normally totally black, instead of what they call "smokey," as seen here. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 07:13 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 06:50
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dude chilling out on a wall at work, guessing it's just one of a billion various grungy-looking brown/grey moths and nothing really noteworthy   and this guy was attracted to the wall where my light points. I've never seen a centipede get attracted to lights, do they and I just don't notice because they're ground-dwellers? at first I thought it might've been a baby house centipede or silverfish, but no, just a regular ol' centipede of some sort.  
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May 31, 2021 08:14
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Well, at least I can still ID insects down to order reliably That bee was in Idaho, so probably B. nevadensis I'm glad those little bears aren't what I thought they were, I can love them even more now. Even their name is cute.
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May 31, 2021 08:23
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Big critter
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May 31, 2021 17:03
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Thought this one was sunning itself at first, but no, he was about to thwack the one next to him. They all seemed pissed off at the others for having the same idea for a roosting spot.
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May 31, 2021 19:05
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The Red Queen posted:Thought this one was sunning itself at first, but no, he was about to thwack the one next to him. They all seemed pissed off at the others for having the same idea for a roosting spot. What kind of vultures are those? I saw a couple turkey vultures standing by the side of the road the other day (it was weird seeing them up close), and their heads are very red.
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May 31, 2021 21:11
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Looks like a black vulture. We got them in texas and there seems to be a lot out recently. That or there more roadkill this year.
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May 31, 2021 21:19
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treat posted:Well, at least I can still ID insects down to order reliably Unlikely. I had to look up the size of a half-dollar. It's huge, but apart from that most everything else about it doesn't fit that species. I'm guessing it's a queen sized individual of another species. Changing my ID to a queen B. griseocollis, one of the variants without the brown belt that I'm more accustomed to. Neat! Has the smoky face too. Very common species in Idaho and queen production peaks at around this time of year.  
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May 31, 2021 21:38
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Heronchat is timely for me, because I also spotted a heron
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May 31, 2021 23:52
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Captain Invictus posted:I've never seen a centipede get attracted to lights, do they and I just don't notice because they're ground-dwellers? It’s more likely it knows lights are primo foraging turf
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cheetah7071 posted:Heronchat is timely for me, because I also spotted a heron Where I grabbed the picture of both the green and blue herons has several blue heron nests in the same tree. It looks like maybe 3 nests are active this year, although it's hard to tell and I haven't been outside as much for the last year due to covid. The resident blue herons are pretty drat chill as far as blue herons tend to go - they'll come within 10 feet or so of people and mostly just seem mildly annoyed. Those are some big drat birds.
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Had a dresser my parents brought me to put in my new house that was in storage. Had about 3 cute little mice hitch a ride and jump out. I have no idea how I did it, but I managed to eventually chase each one down, catch and put outside. This last one was chilling right beside the worthless cat, but I guess I'm glad she didn't kill it. They were nice mice, none of them even bit me which I'm glad of. They went by pretty fast, it was either stomp them or just snatch them up with my bare hands. It's eyes look bulgy, but I'm definitely only holding it tight enough to keep from getting away. Let them all go in the little patch of woods behind my house. Washed my hands afterward, hopefully I don't catch anything nasty. 
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my first rodent ever was a teeny tiny baby rat that my auction house-employed uncle found a nest of in a piece of furniture they were delivered, with the mom nowhere in sight, so he asked if anyone wanted one. I took care of it as best I could, but I was only 7 at the time and wasn't well versed in caring for a baby rat, and he only made it about a week before dying. I was so distraught that my grandma, who I was staying with at the time, took me to a pet store and got me a hamster, the one they had by the register that was "very used to people", a chinese dwarf hamster I named Junior. Junior then lived to be over 7 years old, outliving 3 hamsters purchased for me to have when she eventually passed.
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