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What animals can you see from your home? (lemmy.world)
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I'm talking looking out your window, what mammals, birds, reptiles, cool bugs, or other critters do you occasionally see?

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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ospreys and buzzards and Coopers hawks and Mourning doves. I can hear the osprey in the big snag outside the office window right now.

The big snag in particular is a gathering spot. Bald eagles, and a rare Golden eagle last week. A peregrine, occasionally. Ravens and crows and Stellar jays, and woodpeckers, including Pileated and Flicker.

Hummingbirds, local and migratory. Blackbirds and different kinds of thrushes, plus all the little birds, so many species in the summer.

The Barred owls are really intense sometimes.

A large bevy of quail.

Rafts of ducks. Cormorants, when it's stormy.

Deer are constant. Otters rarely.

Bats and dragonflies. The clouds of midges etc. are not typical anymore. We work hard to encourage pollinators but the total insect population has crashed somewhat. Fewer swallows this year.

[edit- they are so constant I forgot, we have a cottontail problem -- maybe more raptors can feed here, so OK I guess?]

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am jealous of all your birds. We occasionally get black vultures.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I like the feathery sound vultures make when they swoop over low.