Wildlife in our gardens

[MarionMeads]

To many urban people here in our neighborhood, squirrels are wildlife! Oy!

[Richard]

Male Allen’s hummingbird

[Richard]

Janet “hunting” birds

[Richard]

female and male Western Bluebird

[Richard]

At the fountain at night

[Richard]

Wet Finch.

male Allen’s hummingbird a top our Green Sapote (Pouteria viridis) tree.

[jeremymillrood]

Giant swallotail larvae

[Vincent_8B]

Opossum in Seattle.03.28.2018

[mrsg47]

Glad he’s not on my tree. In Maine they they would strip my trees of bark!

[Richard]

Around here they eat grubs, chase away rats (sworn enemies), and don’t do much damage.

[k8tpayaso]

Around here they are supposed to eat ticks! And that is worth them being around!!!

[Vincent_8B]

Very slow animal. She normally gets around at night but I saw her daytime today. She was not hurt any of my plants just make my dogs crazy. I tried to keep all dogs away from her.

[Richard]

When frightened and have space to run – or when chasing a rat – they can run very fast. Otherwise they just plod along … ️

[moose71]

we have a lot of skunks that dig on the lawns, eating junebug grubs. people get angry and trap them. i just put the clod of grass back and thank them for aerating my lawn and saving it from these grubs. i run into them often in the evening . they just walk on by with barely a glance. i enjoy watching them forage under the street light. even the cat touches noses with them and its all good!

[JCT]

The dog had a very unpleasant encounter with a skunk about a year ago in our backyard. It was a summer morning and everyone’s windows around us were open for the morning breeze, so they also were able to enjoy the smells.

I was able to experiment with various internet tomato sauce remedies. Shadow was one very miserable dog for awhile there.

[Richard]

I’ve known more than one dog who got sprayed, then recovered, then broadsided any other dog on the property who started chasing a skunk. They don’t want to smell that ever again!

[Johnnysapples]

Just think how bad a skunk must smell to predators that have a nose 10 to a hundred times the nose of ours. I don’t think they have any natural predators.

[mrsg47]

Vinegar.

[moose71]

ours got sprayed 2xs in a week! he got it so bad it smelled like burnt rubber. didn’t take me long to make a fenced in area to keep the dogs in and skunks out!

[k8tpayaso]