Chandu
I Waxed The Badger.
These days in Minnesota, Hungarian Partridge. Common 30 years ago, but agriculture practices changed and they are largely gone. If we grew some small grain again and didn't just have corn and soybeans it would help.
What Animal have you seen in the wild, that was a rarity for you ?
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Chandu
I Waxed The Badger.
I did see this bug on a brick this weekend moving bricks from one pile to another in my back yard. I've read it's some kind of might, but I've never met a more colorful bug.
Very beautiful bug my friend!
If you hike in the desert just about every day, this encounter is inevitable. This one was very lethargic.
Saw plenty of "rare to me" animals when I visited Alaska, but maybe the most unexpected were Puffins.
Chandu
I Waxed The Badger.
It was brilliant red. This photo doesn't begin to do it justice. Of course neither does me calling a mite a might. Well maybe
Lefonque
Even more clueless than you
Wombat near where I live. I have seen it twice in a few years. Unusual to see it so close to built up areas
Northeast here and fascinated by mustelidae but I've only seen a few types over the years; skunks (obviously) fishers, short-tail weasels, and a single river otter (I think, it was swimming away & body too sleek for a beaver/muskrat). Last weekend though I saw a mink (99% sure of it). It ran across the road in front of me, chipmunk in mouth. Dark like a fisher but smaller and the body proportions wrong. Plus when a fisher runs you know it, they undulate. This one was much shorter in length but the body was bulked up almost like a cat. So kind of cool, did not know we even had minks here (web pic) -
I see wild pheasants on the daily around my house. There’s venomous snakes in my yard called a yamakagashi. I’ve seen troops of monkeys in the mountains while cruising on my motorcycle. I’ve seen civet cats around. I CAUGHT 2 giant flying squirrels with my barehands before, called a Musasabj.
The strangest though…
A badger trotting down the road in Southern California. Tarantulas crossing the street near Mt. Baldy in SoCal. And a MOOSE antler in a field in the middle of nowhere Socal.
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The strangest though…
A badger trotting down the road in Southern California. Tarantulas crossing the street near Mt. Baldy in SoCal. And a MOOSE antler in a field in the middle of nowhere Socal.
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Where I live now there are a crazy number of birds in my yard year round, and at least ten varieties of parrot. Some of them are quite pretty to watch while I am sitting on the porch having a drink.
Not really a rarity though, since there is always some unusual bird out there when I look. I might start trying to get a photo of each type.
Not really a rarity though, since there is always some unusual bird out there when I look. I might start trying to get a photo of each type.
This runaway circus bear was sleeping on my couch...
Last week, me and my girlfriend were exploring an old abandoned church looking for some of her ancestors graves. In the grounds of the abandoned church we saw this swarm of bees.
And here's the church, looks like the bees have found themselves a good piece of real estate.
And here's the church, looks like the bees have found themselves a good piece of real estate.
Not a rarity for us, but still fun to watch them play.
I love these guys. I can sit out on the screened porch for hours after dusk and watch such an amazing free fireworks show right in my yard. We have literally hundreds and hundreds out every night, it's quite a show!
Thing is, they're all but absent in many areas they used to proliferate
The first time I truly saw them in their glory was as a kid visiting relatives in rural Missouri. Any spring or summer, you could count on the fireflies and the calls of the tree frogs. The deafening of it was so peaceful
You scarcely hear so much of it, anymore. At least that's what I've noticed
We're lucky, lots of wild life and we live pretty darned close to incorporated areas. A little bit of heaven for us.
In the summer, I'm escorting tree frogs out of the porch almost every night, I have no idea how they manage to get in and get stuck inside!
I have juvenile green tree frogs begin pouring out of every outside nook of my house
Love it. Gray treefrogs, as wellHowever, I've noticed the lessening of their calls. Something has gone awry
Both are affected by encroachment and urban sprawl.I have juvenile green tree frogs begin pouring out of every outside nook of my house
However, I've noticed the lessening of their calls. Something has gone awry
Lighting bugs are also affected by light pollution.
Our neighborhood has an ordnance against streetlights, they aren't permitted, and everyone has outside lights at a minimum and on timers.
It gets pretty darned black out here at night.
That and all the woods is a haven for deer, fox, turkey, great owls and all the insects are an attraction for the bats.
