In the wild: Animals edition

[Oaktavia]

Merry Christmas from the Potomac in West Virginia and Maryland.

[SFMCfranky]

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[SFMCfranky]

A red shouldered hawk right outside of my kitchen window this morning:

[Oaktavia]

@SFMCfranky so awesome!!!

[catdad1]

@SFMCfranky ran into this guy at work last month and he would not budge. Got within like 10' until I was too intimidated to get any closer.

[nurunuru]

Inspired by these recent bird posts, here's a pair of bald eagles we saw in our backyard last month. They hung out for a while. Was pretty cool to see.

[ARNC]

An occasional visitor just passed by. Usually they come and go too quickly to catch. One day they’ll come when I have clean windows!

[sabergirl]

What is that @ARNC ?

[ARNC]

@sabergirl Reeves's muntjac. They’re fairly common near me but don’t often come into the garden.

[sabergirl]

Cool! We don’t have those over here. Thanks

[Bridger]

I think people looked at importing muntjacs into the US, but determined it was too dear

[Giles]

Ouch

[twin]

Two of them today.

[ARNC]

A midnight encounter on the way home. Not sure who was more surprised.

This was after I had nearly walked into it on the path and it had partially run away. No flash as it wasn’t going to hang around while I changed settings.

[SFMCfranky]

A first for me: A Black-chinned hummingbird. Spotted outside my kitchen window this morning.

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[SFMCfranky]

The first Rufous of the season showed up this morning. That makes three different species in the last 24 hours. (Anna’s are year round residents.)

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[Brian]

Will try to get a pic on my way home tomorrow morning at 4am of the power line with at least 6 kookaburras that seem to make it their perch of choice

[twin]

Going to be babies soon.

[twin]

Saw this one today.

[goosehd]