Wildlife Where You Live

[Peter Parka]

This is a thread for you to post wildlife from where you live. These are a few animals I've seen and are my favorite in my area.

Stoat - Quite shy but I've seen about two or three run across the road


Kingfisher - Get them in the town park and down the river


Hedgehog - They hibernate in winter but are quite common at night, have to keep stopping the dog grabbing them.

 

[Peter Parka]

Jay - Quite common in the woods, make a fucking horrible noise for such a beautiful bird!


Bittern - Very rare but see them in the Lea Valley park between my town and London in winter


Badger - Not in my town but I've watched them in the woods a few miles away

 

[Ria]

Awww, lovely pics Peter.

Love hedgehogs, they are so damn cute. I would have a pet hedgehog if they weren't rife with fleas.

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

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Scarlet Ibis - National Bird

The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) is a species of ibis that occurs in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It is the national bird of Trinidad and Tobago and is featured on the Coat of Arms along with the Cocrico (Rufous-vented Chachalaca). The largest habitat of the Scarlet Ibis is the Caroni Swamp, Central Trinidad.

At sunset, hundreds of birds fly in from neighbouring lagoons to roost for the night and the drab mangrove bushes become festooned, as if by magic, with scarlet "blooms".

 

[Sneakiecat]

Manatee




Alligator- Fun to watch the tourists try to get them to come closer by sticking their hands in the water and spalshing them around.




Florida Scrub Jay






Armadillo-Nature's speedbump

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

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Copper-rumped hummingbird

 

[Ria]

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Scarlet Ibis - National Bird

The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) is a species of ibis that occurs in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It is the national bird of Trinidad and Tobago and is featured on the Coat of Arms along with the Cocrico (Rufous-vented Chachalaca). The largest habitat of the Scarlet Ibis is the Caroni Swamp, Central Trinidad.

At sunset, hundreds of birds fly in from neighbouring lagoons to roost for the night and the drab mangrove bushes become festooned, as if by magic, with scarlet "blooms".

Beautiful pic, CB.

I have seen a wildlife documentary about this, but was a long time ago. It fascinates me this kind of thing.

Are you originally from Trinidad then?

 

[Maulds]

Whitetailed deer. They like to run into the road and fuck up cars. They are delicious when prepared correctly.

Striped skunk. They are useless and stink like Hell.

 

[Ria]

Hi Amber - I love that Scrub Jay, even with matching beak lol very pretty.

 

[Sneakiecat]

I've never seen one (at least, if I have, I didn't know it) but I love the blue on them.

 

[Sneakiecat]

Stoat - Quite shy but I've seen about two or three run across the road

I love the look on its face. It's so cute.

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

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Leatherback turtle - Endangered species.

Unraveling the mysteries of the leatherback sea turtle's biology and behaviour is increasingly important because this animal, which has existed since the time of the dinosaurs, is now a critically endangered species. The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is so different from the six other marine turtle species that it is in a taxonomic family all of its own called Dermochelyidae. This species has remained virtually unchanged since it first began swimming in the world's oceans more than 90 million years ago.

Sea Turtle Conservation
The island of Trinidad has one of the largest nesting populations of sea turtles in the world. In 1999 Nature Seekers Inc. implemented a Leatherback Sea Turtle Tagging Project in order to identify the number of turtles nesting on the beach near Matura on the east coast of Trinidad. For tagging to be successful, this activity must be continued for a number of years.

Mathura is the site of one of the most important nesting beaches for endangered leatherback turtles, enormous reptiles that can weigh a ton and dive deeper than many whales. Each year, more than 2,000 of these giants haul themselves onto Matura Beach to lay their eggs. With leatherback populations declining more quickly than any other large animal in modern history, each turtle is precious.

 

[Sneakiecat]

We have leatherbacks nest here. We adopted a nest as a present for my older brother's birthday.

 

[Maulds]

Copperhead. These are mean sum bitches that would rather just bite you than try to get away.

Longnose Gar. I don't know squat about them, but they are ugly.

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

Beautiful pic, CB.

I have seen a wildlife documentary about this, but was a long time ago. It fascinates me this kind of thing.

Are you originally from Trinidad then?

Thanks Freespeech. The scarlet Ibis is truly a magnificent sight and they fill the sky with a sea of red on evenings.

Yes, I am from Trinidad. Actually it's from where I am posting.

 

[dt3]

I love the look on its face. It's so cute.

:homo:

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

Whitetailed deer. They like to run into the road and fuck up cars. They are delicious when prepared correctly.

LOL@ "They like to run into the road and fuck up cars"

 

[Sneakiecat]

Flamingos- As seen in their natural habitat

 

[dt3]

Flamingos- As seen in their natural habitat

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[COOL_BREEZE2]

We have leatherbacks nest here. We adopted a nest as a present for my older brother's birthday.

That's cool Sneakiecat.

The leatherbacks, when they come to lay in the season, because they are so slow on land moving at sluggishly crawling pace make for easy prey so they have to be carefully guarded. It's a crime to kill any of them. It's amazing for how long they have been in existence virtually unchanged and the mere size of them.