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purple hayes
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:10    Post subject: What type of animals frequent your yard?
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:11    Post subject:
squirrels, rabbits, dogs. Of course, i live in an apartment building, but that's what i've seen.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:16    Post subject:
LBB's (little brown birds), eagles, coons, fox, squirrels, chipmunks, beavers, muscrat, loons, geese, ducks, fish, turtles, neighbor dogs, our dog, chickens, occasional deer, very rarely a bear and any day now the friendly mosquitos should be back for the summer Surprised
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:17    Post subject:
the neighbors feed the birds so they often hang out in my yard.... and I've seen a rabbit there too.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:20    Post subject:
Lots of birds, squirrels, cats, neighbor's dog, and a possum likes to dig through our recycling at night. We also have lizards living under the deck. Small and cute, and Libby has named one Pete. We catch them and then set them free, although the kids want to keep them. I'm afraid we'll kill them though, so we just play with them for a while.

I swear that I saw a hawk sitting on the fence not long ago. HUGE bird.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:30    Post subject:
Coyotes, deer, saw two moose one year, someone shot a cougar just down the road last year Shocked , probably the occasional bear although they stay closer to the creek across the road. Cats, dogs, horses of course. Tons of birds, especially starlings Evil or Very Mad and red winged blackbirds that live in the swamp. Raccoons and ducks, a pair of which nest in the horses' corral every spring and then have babies in the marsh next to the creek. Snakes like there's no tomorrow. And rodents. Lots of rodents. My cat brought me a baby packrat last summer puke
We are right in town but on reading this I realize how lucky we are to have this little oasis in the city. I think a lot of wildlife follows the creek down from the mountains.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:37    Post subject:
We have lots of Cardinal, and Blue Jays, Mocking birds and Sparrows and Wrens, seen a few chickadees, also seen some Skinks, Chipmunks, Squirells, some kind of red wasp Shocked everywhere, Gardner snakes, Carpenter bees, Possum, racoon, Mourning Doves, Hawk (redtail i think) occassionally.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 10:54    Post subject:
Morris the Cat-sized Squirrel, two of those big red-headed woodpeckers, myriad normal-sized squirrels. Bunnies, raccoons, an occasional fox. You know. The normal stuff.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 11:00    Post subject:
Rabbits, squirrels, and last summer, skunks with an attitude (two adults and eight to ten babies under our front step). burning mad
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 11:07    Post subject:
Hundreds of geckos (literally), three iguanas (at last count), the occasional grass snake, an occasional scorpion (we try to avoid those by spraying every few months), storks, seagulls, pelicans (occasionally), a fat stupid possum, Evil or Very Mad some squirrels, and, of course, my dog, Sierra!

Sometimes two-legged rats, depending on who is visiting! Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 11:17    Post subject:
The mysterious "adolescent yoots".

They dart in and out between parked cars and swarm the neighborhood streets, standing around and blocking traffic and mailboxes, eschewing the spacious activity field or b-ball courts. The Brewr is terrified he's going to smack one with his SUV one day. Neutral

But I'm glad they're outside being active and not inside watching tv.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 11:19    Post subject:
At my former residence it was 'coons, possums, rabbits, groundhogs, squirrels, chipmunks, skunks, snapping turtles, painted turtles, mink, weasels, muskrats (turtles, mink and muskrats traversing between pond behind house to swamp down the road), redtail & cooper's hawks, myriad songbirds and other birds, the occasional pheasant, dogs and cats. Also have seen red foxes from the back deck and heard coyotes at night.

New residence - one rabbit, two dogs and a couple of birds.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 11:25    Post subject:
Geckos, birds, mosquitos, wasps. I see a heck of a lot of wasps, but can't find a nest anywhere. I should really find it before they get aggressive in mid July.
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 11:27    Post subject:
jrjo wrote:
LBB's (little brown birds),


So you failed ornithology 101, no?
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PostPosted: 04/27/04 - 11:38    Post subject:
We have possums, BARs (big A$$ rabbits), Starlings, Crows, Juncos, Flickers, Scrub Jays, Sparrows, Moles, dogs, feral cats and Black Widow Spiders.




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