In the wild: Animals edition

[twin]

Saw this guy.

[Rustygate37]

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[SFMCfranky]

A pair of quail have been shepherding a huge brood of chicks around my property for a couple of weeks now. This pic only shows half of them. The rest had already walked by before I could grab my phone.

[Oaktavia]

Copperhead in the Outer Banks, North Carolina

[Anesthetist]

@Oaktavia when I was in the Boy Scouts I accidentally stepped on one. Luckily I didn’t get bitten.

This little guy was hanging out in our yard

[Oaktavia]

@Anesthetist skinks are cool!

[Anesthetist]

@Oaktavia they’re so shy we dont see them often

[SFMCfranky]

Does my bathroom mirror count?

[SFMCfranky]

I caught a nice two-fer this morning:

[twin]

Twins,

[Lukenstein]

My dog got into a scuffle with this Australian eastern brown snake and lived, as I got him to the vets in 8 minutes for some anti venom.
It would be within the top 3 most venomous in the world I believe

[SFMCfranky]

Through a window. But the light is nice.

[SFMCfranky]

This morning outside my bike shack

[dirtyframer]

@SFMCfranky great shot

[nurunuru]

Gopher snake. Nearly stepped on the feisty little fella! He put on a pretty good show of bluffing like he was venomous. Hissing, flattening his head to look like a rattler, looking ready to strike...

[SFMCfranky]

@dirtyframer said in In the wild: Animals edition:

@SFMCfranky great shot

Thank you, Sir. I just got lucky. I saw them through a window and was able to sneak around a corner without spooking them. Right after I took the snap, they closed their wings.

[Matt]

Saw this seagull smoking a cigar on my run last weekend…

[SFMCfranky]

Looks like a pair of white tailed kites have decided to nest in a tree on the Western edge of my property. They’ve nested back there before and raised at least one chick to adulthood. Here’s wishing them luck again this season.

Standing guard:

[1WayTrip]

Female Kestrel

[motojobobo]

@nurunuru super sharp pic of the head of that gopher! Very nice.