Wildlife in our gardens

A female western tanager and some juncos. Nice

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One time chronos caught a mouse but he didn’t know what to do with it so it tossed it into the air a few times. We made him release it and it was so traumatized, it could barely move. Just stood there shaking. We left it and it disappeared in a few hours lol.

Today they cornered a bunny. Then they wanted to play. I guess today’s the day this month that i give them their flea meds :face_with_spiral_eyes: thankfully, it doesn’t look like it has ticks

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No idea what this was, but I found it as the straw that broke the camel’s back of my poorly constructed Concord grape trellis. Nest had a heavy ass ball of mud in the bottom. I didn’t find the egg until a day or two later. It was underneath a bush down the hill from where the nest/my grapevine landed. I assume it’s a man-eating lizard egg.

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One of Darrel’s chickens

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The mud base with dried grass on top plus the color makes me 90% sure it’s a Robin nest

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thats a big wildlife lol :joy:

This butterfly is pretty common around here, although I don’t know its name. Some of ya’ll probably do. What was odd though is that it repeatedly landed on me while planting in the garden, and literally followed me to different spots in the yard and would land on me again. This went on for a long time. It began to freak me out. It was quite attracted to the skin on my arm/hand for some reason. Maybe it was the salty sweat, although I did not feel sweaty. Or maybe the soil all over my hands from digging around in the dirt. I also used my hand/arm to stir and dissolve the Jack’s acid fertilizer in a big bucket of water, so maybe something in that water was attractive to it. I did have on a flower print top, but it didn’t land on the top.


The black creature below the butterfly in the picture also followed me all around the garden. But I know what she wanted - lunch!
Sandra

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Dead, so I took a picture.

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Sheesh! Glad I’m not a Pacific tree frog tadpole!

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