In the wild: Animals edition

[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]

[RLG212]

NYC (Manhattan). A milk snake. Probably around 2 feet long. Actually struck my camera when I was getting a video.

NYC (Manhattan). My girl Peach in a stare down with a coyote. Fun night!

[mclaincausey]

Eastern coyotes are no joke.

[ARNC]

@goosehd should we expect a WAYCT post later?

[goosehd]

@ARNC not this time.

[twin]

Snakes.

[motojobobo]

We saw several of these snakes during the bike ride around the Utah mountains. Haven’t yet had a chance to look up which species it is. Was between 2 and 3 feet long. I’d assume it wasn’t poisonous from the shape of the head, but not sure.

[goosehd]

Google says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituophis_catenifer