Local wildlife

[crfriend]

Sapphire and I live on what amounts to a dead-end loop in a quiet little neighbourhood in a semi-rural, but still suburban, town. So we get wildlife. We have coyotes, skunks, foxes, weasels, deer, a local bobcat, and these guys (seen temporarily roosting on the fence around our neighbours' pool):

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That's part of a small flock of 15 turkeys, all of which were subsequently in our side-yard pecking away at the ground looking for food. They can fly, for short distances, and even then not terribly well, but are more than capable of getting up onto fences or into trees to roost away from ground-based predators. Watching one launch is rather like watching a B-52 take to the air.

[beachlion]

That is what I like about the place where I live now. In Holland I had to walk 30 minutes to get to a park with some wildlife. Here they are in my backyard, squirrels,all sorts of birds, rabbits, a skunk now and then and some others according to the footprints in the mud.
Did you tell them that Thanksgiving Day is around the corner?

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[Kirbstone]

Here we're 3 miles from the nearest town/corner shop, adjacent to a large raised sphagnum-peat bog (great for dog walking) and we get a great variety of wild feral creatures onto our land, where we have a little wildlife lake, anyway.

I couldn't begin to catalogue the birds, but perhaps the rarer ones merit mention: Kingfisher, buzzard, sparrow-hawk, tawny owl.

On the ground, Hares, rabbits, mink....the latter being a real nuisance, grey squirrels, otters, deer.

We keep sufficient dogs & cats to keep rats &c. at bay, but the mice seem to get into our kitchen cupboards, nevertheless and are regularly trapped.

T.