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The Animals That Aren't Dogs or Cats Thread

Since we have had all of this rain, one fun thing is watching the birds having baths in all the puddles. We don't have a bird bath and I was wondering if they are hard to maintain? Do any of you have them? Do the birds really use them? It is it hard to keep other animals from using them like squirrels?
 
Mrs. Silvercrest said:
Since we have had all of this rain, one fun thing is watching the birds having baths in all the puddles. We don't have a bird bath and I was wondering if they are hard to maintain? Do any of you have them? Do the birds really use them? It is it hard to keep other animals from using them like squirrels?
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The birds and the squirrels use the birdbath in my yard all the time. I just rinse it out with the garden hose every other day.
 
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Mrs. Silvercrest said:
Since we have had all of this rain, one fun thing is watching the birds having baths in all the puddles. We don't have a bird bath and I was wondering if they are hard to maintain? Do any of you have them? Do the birds really use them? It is it hard to keep other animals from using them like squirrels?
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I have a birdbath and the birds drink from it and splash around, too. You can get drops to put in them to keep mosquitos and alga from enjoying it too.
 
This is Katniss & Carl at Arthur's Acres Animal Sanctuary
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This is Sterling, one of the Albert Wildies.
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I got to meet a couple new horses when I went by the stables this morning, and I think one of them think he's a dog. First he brought a stick over to the fence with him when he came over to say hi, and then later while I was petting them, he started licking my hand. And he tried to eat my finger, he grabbed it with his lips and pulled it into his mouth while I was petting him and the other horse. :lol:
 
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Good news!

A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive. The tortoise, named Fernanda after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century.

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-fantastic-giant-tortoise-believed-extinct.html

Dino-discoveries
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-bizarre-meat-eating-dinosaur-classic-fossil.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-europe-largest-predator-unearthed-isle.html

Seals
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-whiskers-secret-weapon.html
 
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Anyone know what the writing says?

Wilbur the pig at Athur's Acres was having a bit of a meltdown.
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I took a pleasant walk earlier and managed to get some nice pics of an orange dragonfly, a Needham's Skimmer (lilbellula needhami). I even captured the sun reflecting off the wings in the third pic. Males tend to be more red while females tend to be more orange, and there are color variations compared to a similar species (lilbellula auripennis). The black stripe also helps set it apart from the Orange Meadowhawk, which has black spots on the sides instead but otherwise looks similar.

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I took a pleasant walk earlier and managed to get some nice pics of an orange dragonfly, a Needham's Skimmer (lilbellula needhami). I even captured the sun reflecting off the wings in the third pic. Males tend to be more red while females tend to be more orange, and there are color variations compared to a similar species (lilbellula auripennis). The black stripe also helps set it apart from the Orange Meadowhawk, which has black spots on the sides instead but otherwise looks similar.

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That's really cool. We're too dry so we don't see dragonflies out here very often.
 
The creek that's partly visible in the picture has a summer population of multiple species, and it can be nice in the summer if the temperature's right. :) The dragonflies have a ready food supply of flies, mosquitoes and similar insects, and sometimes it's interesting to see what's visible on a walk. Sometimes I see solitary wasps that are pollinators, though some of them are paper wasps or mud wasps looking for raw materials. They're generally harmless to humans unless directly threatened.
 
That's cool.
We don't really have any interesting insects around here, just your typical flies, bees, mosquitos, ect,
We do have Coyotes that come into our neighborhood on occasional though, we drove past a big one going down the street while we leaving to take the dogs on their morning walk either yesterday or Wednesday.
 
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