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My campus had three visits from a fox. First it just came and walked around. A week later, it caught a rabbit and started to eat it. A few days after that, it came back to eat even more of the rabbit kill.
Walking to the PO just now, dead squirrel on the street outside the house. Just saw a vulture headed to get him. The circle of life. yum yum.
Good that the squirrel ended life in the autumn, before the hardship of winter.. instead of in the spring when all kinds of great adventures were awaiting her. Or in the summer when she may be raising young.
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Originally Posted by Corey the Otter
My campus had three visits from a fox. First it just came and walked around. A week later, it caught a rabbit and started to eat it. A few days after that, it came back to eat even more of the rabbit kill.
Yeah, I've read that the fox can readily adapt to urban living and scavenging if they need to. Interesting that your fox didn't just haul what was left of the rabbit away, rather than come back to get it. He took a chance that it would be gone when he came back hungry the second time.
I saw a praying mantis the other day, wish I had my phone with me to take a pic.. It was about 6 inches long, heading into the middle of the road. I talked her out of it and sent her back into the field. It is an odd thing, I've lived here for about 40 years and have seen probably three praying mantises that whole time. All three times I have seen them in almost the exact same location.
A praying mantis. That's something I've never seen it's its habitat. Must have been exciting.
Yesterday nine male red-winged blackbirds came for lunch. They were strutting their stuff with both the yellow and red stripes on their wings fully displayed. Beautiful.
I started to wonder about females of the species and learned something startling - they bear no resemblance to their partners. I'll have to look for them. I'm sure I could have mistaken them for sparrows.
It seems when I was a kid we used to have a prediction about the coming winter based on the color on the males' wings. But I can't find anything online. Maybe I'll try "Farmer's Almanac." They have lots of old folksy things like that.
Walking to the PO just now, dead squirrel on the street outside the house. Just saw a vulture headed to get him. The circle of life. yum yum.
On the other side of that life cycle, this chubby butt was oblivious to me brushing one of my horses, under the overhang, one morning this past week, lollol.
He may be the same squirrel who comes to the sliding glass doors and peers in, at the dogs going nuts because he’s less than three feet away - on - the - other - side - of - the - glass, lollol
It seems when I was a kid we used to have a prediction about the coming winter based on the color on the males' wings. But I can't find anything online. Maybe I'll try "Farmer's Almanac." They have lots of old folksy things like that.
Well, I love a challenge so your post caused me to scour the web looking for something about Red Winged Blackbird colors being predictive of coming winter and came up empty handed.. Although I did learn that their late winter/early spring arrival is a better predictor of the end of winter than a groundhog..
I remember being told that an abundance of acorns was predictive of a cold winter.
There have been flocks of migrating birds in our yard off and on for the last couple of weeks. Most frequently robins having an absolute heyday, flipping leaves and pulling up nice big fat juicy worms. And of course the flying "V" pattern of geese way up high, sometimes audible but barely visible.
The bats are still spending their days sleeping in our louvers.. soon they will be off to hibernate. Coyote scat in the yard this morning, so they pass through, although we don't see or hear them. And our barred owl -Stella Luna by name ;-)- can be heard nearby most every evening, calling back and forth to her friend. Although now that she is more mature, she has the good sense to keep a low profile.
Today, on my window screen I saw what we call a stick bug. Fragile little thing.
I am so thrilled by what I just saw in my yard - a big 'ol possum. That's the first one I've seen at this new home. I had a huge one i called "The Land Cruiser" at my old house but I hadn't seen any so far here. I was feeding the stray cats and the kitten kept looking back at the driveway where the vehicles are. I noticed a shape and thought it was the tomcat I also feed until I saw there was a long scaly tail behind the critter. Then it went under my van and scooched up into the yard and right up onto the steps. I actually opened the door partially and watched it eat, which didn't seem to bother the possum at all. I did have to put some Fancy Feast on top of the rest of the cat food to tempt the cats back again. I guess they didn't like the taste of possum spit on their food. I guess I'll have to start leaving kibble out now because possums love kitty kibble in my experience. The stray cats are too spoiled by the canned food at the point.
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I guess I'll have to start leaving kibble out now because possums love kitty kibble in my experience. The stray cats are too spoiled by the canned food at the point. 
