Wildlife in our gardens

THAT’S SOOO CUTEEEE :heart_eyes: overnight it to me :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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If you lived close I’d catch you a dozen😁.

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There’s always something in the canal. Today it’s the threatened American crocodile, it was between 8-10 feet long

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Thats awesome! I’ve only seen a croc in the wild twice. Once on Little Gasparilla Island while doing hurricane work and once off of Card Sound in the keys.
Alligators are a dime a dozen, but crocodiles are something special.

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I feel the same way, this is my first time seeing one in the wild. Better seeing it now than when snorkeling!

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Very common invasive green iguana, but it’s at the perfect stage in its life when they are the most beautiful
Aren’t phone cameras amazing these days?

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Brings back memories of Boca Grande and eating at South Beach Bar & Grille and seeing the iguanas running around the parking lot.

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my cousin has a 80 acre farm outside lebanon , mo. she managed to coax some local feral chickens, that were living in her woods, to roost in a chicken coop her and her husband put in those woods. they are mostly a mid sized chicken. gray in color dark skin, legs and wattles and all but 2 of 28 lay blue/ green eggs. the roosters rarely crow and even the hens don’t vocalize much. once the birds got used to roosting there her husband added a 12’’ hole and a landing platform 6’ off the ground so the door could be kept closed all the time and the birds can come and go without threat of predators. when we hunted her farm 9 yrs ago we would see them out scratching in the fields, but they were very skittish. they would fly over to my cousin when she called them to feed them some scraps or scatch. very cool.

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Not an animal, but I wanted to share as I thought it was really neat. I was out walking my woods (planting some Carolina allspice seeds), and found a bottle that someone littered who knows how long ago.

Over the years, it’s become it’s own little terrarium! I’ve picked up plenty of trash bottles before, but there’s always just muck water in them. This one was laying just right so that water would drain out.

I’ve no idea how long it’s been there. The bottle has 18-79 on the bottom, unsure if that’s significant. 2018 or 1979 maybe?

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