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Cross-posting from the cute thread.... We recently had a mystery burrow show up in the bushes in the backyard. At first it was a tiny hole, then it got bigger and bigger and the pile of dirt kicked out clogged a sprinkler head. Efforts to trap whatever it was were not successful. Nothing came out when we stuck a hose in there and flooded it. I finally caved and spent too much on some wildlife cams to figure out what it even was. My money was on an armadillo or gopher tortoise. Dienes said rabbit. We were both wrong.... https://i.imgur.com/pzG5jqp.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/am7qv6G.mp4 There are actually two, I've christened them Lemmiwinks and Templeton. On the second night I had put the camera outside the bush pointing toward the trap to see if they were being clever with it or just avoiding it or what.  This was apparently camera 2, which I forgot to set into video clip mode. It only caught a glimpse of Lemmiwinks watching Thumper from the bush (bottom left), but it did capture this excellent sequence in the morning.    On night 3 I pointed the camera right at the burrow entrance. https://i.imgur.com/fJTWI3d.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/wjztPgz.mp4 The second camera I put on one of the palm trees holding up my hammock wasn't as useful. I thought it might catch if that rabbit was coming from a neighbor's yard, or where everyone goes when they leave the bushes. But it did catch some excellent birbs. https://i.imgur.com/bQmT5gB.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/kobUHBQ.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/1dlm2JK.mp4 And in the morning the bush camera caught these two. https://i.imgur.com/dSFiaza.mp4 Last night I positioned the camera just a tad high but still caught some excellent clips. https://i.imgur.com/eQ0hzH2.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/0QtZy1Z.mp4
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I picked up a pair of these: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0744JB986?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details
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Mar 22, 2022 17:16
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https://i.imgur.com/9SekEv3.mp4 The tree cam caught some non-wild-life today. Watch the catio on the left side.
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Mar 24, 2022 16:31
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https://i.imgur.com/xYWGqu4.mp4 This cheeky fucker actually turns and winks at the camera 
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Mar 24, 2022 16:50
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poo poo, sorry for the multipost, I honestly wasn't expecting to find much of interest on the cameras today (it's usually one or two nice clips and the rest is just boring "Lemmiwinks is rearranging the leaves that guard the burrow entrance for the 243553rd time). RAT FIGHT! https://i.imgur.com/i0Orp3N.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/KsBLElQ.mp4
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Mar 24, 2022 17:00
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My wife saw these handsome fellows on our feeders this morning. Sadly I had forgotten to put the chips back in the wildlife cams to get higher quality images and video (this was taken from the upstairs office window with a phone). There were a whole bunch of them, apparently. A couple would hit the feeders while the rest kept watch up on the power lines. I'm told the kitties were all out on the catio ekekekekek-ing at them and the birbs were doing it right back 
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Apr 13, 2022 19:50
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I finally remembered to put out my cam chips again last night and made some discoveries. The rats now climb the bird feeder pole (which needs to be lubed up from now on). https://i.imgur.com/acllD7C.mp4 Definitely caught at least 4 visible in that clip, some of which seemed to be significantly smaller? Yup, we got babies that are probably adolescents by now. https://i.imgur.com/se1AFUS.mp4 Tree cam caught a red cardinal! https://i.imgur.com/XPdocD1.mp4 Which is apparently a dick that fights the other birds. https://i.imgur.com/KMpubCj.mp4 Then the first morning clip from bush cam had a startling beginning.... https://i.imgur.com/8bfYcpo.mp4 I had no idea those birds were carnivorous.
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Apr 18, 2022 17:48
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It was a lizard of some kind, and I think it was a grackle.
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Apr 18, 2022 18:39
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Success! Snagged mom (Templeton) and one of the babies. That just leaves one more baby and Lemmiwinks to go. I've come around on these guys over the past weeks of watching all the videos of them just doing rat stuff. If only they weren't invasive and loving up my bushes and clearly breeding to make more of them 
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Apr 20, 2022 16:53
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One more rat down, one to go (we think). I need to pull the camera chips today to see who was active last night.
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Apr 21, 2022 16:46
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Saw this nope rope while I was mowing yesterday against the wall of my neighbor's house. Seen this long boi before coming into the yard from his through a gap in the fence, seems to live over there but has been visiting us more frequently. Sadly too small to take down Templeton for us, but probably coming to check out the prey smells our bushes are giving off lately. Disclaimer: Didn't come anywhere near him with the mower. I actually just walking between our houses to dump the clipping in the bin out front when I noticed them, and they bolted under the fence into the neighbor's backyard when I tried getting any closer.  Fucker can move FAST.
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Apr 27, 2022 17:28
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Our regular bunny visitor is back!
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Apr 28, 2022 17:07
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We had another unintentional capture today. I was putting the tree cam chip back out when I noticed the big trap door was closed. I was worried the rat got caught and we didn't notice, then saw it was something considerably larger (and more pissed off): We cracked the door and put out a little food and water if he wants some before he takes off. He's native so it's cool, our bad you came scrounging when we happened to be trying to catch Lemmiwinks little buddy.
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May 2, 2022 00:41
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beat me to it
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May 16, 2022 21:14
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Found this little dude just living his best life when visiting a graveyard in Cambridge earlier today.
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May 28, 2022 00:23
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Was walking my mom's cat when this little guy buzzed by me to get to the flowers.
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May 29, 2022 17:38
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Some visitors came to the neighborhood today: 
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Aug 17, 2022 21:58
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Bula Vinaka posted:Darkling beetles comprise a lot of species, included the common feeder mealworms. This was fun when I kept these to feed to my sugar gliders. Woke up one day and SUDDENLY BEETLES.
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Aug 31, 2022 15:31
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These would count as critters I think: https://i.imgur.com/kq8verz.mp4
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Oct 25, 2022 22:10
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Saw a bunch of these weirdos flying overhead today. Spoonbills!
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Nov 10, 2022 23:48
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We watched an ibis while stuck at a red light the other day. They caught a lizard and ate it.
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Nov 14, 2022 23:17
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This tiny guy was trying to blend in on the door we painted in the garage yesterday.
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Jul 22, 2023 20:31
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Our friends are still hanging around the neighborhood:
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Jul 27, 2023 22:27
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Today I had a weird critter encounter. As I was refinishing a table with the garage door open, after it finished raining I noticed this little one was hiding under said table: We'd seen a baby squirrel in our front bushes recently, but I guess they're hungry enough to just walk right past the scary human with a loud orbital sander.  I called Dienes and she managed to grab the little guy. We put them in one of the quail hospital cages with plenty of food and water for the night, tomorrow we'll look into local rescues/rehabs that could take care of a baby squirrel. 
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Aug 15, 2023 02:22
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Overnight the squirrel drank some water but would not eat and was not doing good in the morning. The wildlife rehab is now treating the squirrel at their facility. Another woman brought in two in nearly identical condition directly after; this heat wave is rough on the young ones lately. If we hadn't scooped them up I'd probably have found a dead squirrel in our garage instead.
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Little guy hiding in my package bin:
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Feb 10, 2024 18:04
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