Animals in your garden

[JBtheExplorer]

Western Chorus Frog in one of my birdhouse gardens.

 

[Sheal]

They are pretty birds and have very distinctive plumage @JBtheExplorer. I've just remembered the Siskins that visit my garden. they also look similar to the others.

 

[Sheal]

'No Name' the Pheasant in my avatar hasn't visited for nearly a week. He's arrived almost every day to be fed in the last two years and was very close to feeding from my hand. But sadly I think he's come to a natural end. He was also going through a bad moult which wouldn't have helped. I've been doing a little reading and apparently they live for about three years in the wild, up to eight in captivity, not very long at all considering they spend some of that time avoiding traffic and guns during the shooting season. Hens usually lay between seven and fifteen eggs, producing just one clutch a year between April and June. A few of the chicks will die before leaving the nest, so mortality rate is not good at all.

I'll miss him chatting away to me while he fed - and the raucous calls at the end of my garden letting the world know he was around.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

The second Western Chorus Frog sighting in three days! I rarely ever see them so it was a nice treat.

I also found a Monarch chrysalis.

 

[roadrunner]

Had a Great Egret visit the yard yesterday, they usually spend time in the marsh, but occasionally they like a change of diet, i.e. lizards.

Before I got my camera out I saw him snatch a dragonfly out of the air -- very fast.

 

[Logan]

Have hedgehogs in my garden, so made this hog hibernating house. Made from house bricks and 2 house roof tiles. Can just see the white plastic tunnel under all the leaves.

 

[Joolz]

Ive got a visiting badger, thought of you ziggy but ive named it Benny instead x Click here

 

[JBtheExplorer]

This is the third Monarch butterfly that has emerged from a chrysalis in my garden this week!

 

[Sheal]

A stunning shot JB!

 

[Logan]

Beautiful @JBtheExplorer

 

[posiepurrs]

Not a great photo since I was inside and used my phone. This female coyote has been coming to my yard to steal apples from my tree. I am keeping the apples picked up since I don't want to become a food source. I knew they were around but until recently I had never seen one.

 

[Logan]

Still get 3 hedgehogs come to feed at the feeding station.

 

[Logan]

Can just about see a hedgehog in the feeding station

 

[Logan]

Didn't think that i would get the hedgehogs last night, but when i got up this morning at 5am some of the food had gone. But i don't know if they will tonight because it's turned colder.

 

[AuntRose53]

Didn't think that i would get the hedgehogs last night, but when i got up this morning at 5am some of the food had gone. But i don't know if they will tonight because it's turned colder.

why do u want them to come back and ruin your crop?