These guys are getting big.
My automatic mowing system 
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Keep your head up @Melon ! Maybe it’s a different study! Also, they’re tracking that little bee to hopefully make environmental improvements. I see it as a good thing. Some scientist out there cares about what happens to our fuzzy little friend.
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Some of my neighbor’s turkeys have been getting out since they’ve been away. No idea who it is but they like me. I watered and fed them a bunch of berries and then led them to my field of clover. They seemed to have liked me so they followed me around
i found out today how affectionate turkeys can be and now I’m reconsidering a turkey dinner for Thanksgiving. One of my neighbor’s said we used to have a wild or escaped peacock too 
until one day he heard it cry then the sound of something crashing. Then he never heard it again lol. We have mountain lions and black bears here too but I’m guessing it must’ve been a mountain lion that got tired of hearing it.
Also something was stalking the turkeys as well. One of my neighbor’s dog scared it back into the forest as they were going home from their walk. It sounded big by how much stuff it broke trying to run away from the dog. So we walked the turkeys back home after spending a few hours over at my place and before sunset.
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they told their friends and today turned out to be a literal wild goose chase. The one day I’m not wearing pants to let my dogs out, half awake mind you, and all i hear is duck quacking and see a blur of white fluff chasing things before i can even my eyes opened. So I’m scrambling to find pants while yelling at my 2 year old not to come outside and my dogs trying to chase some inside.
He ended up trapping one and his what he did? HE JUST GROOMED IT.
They’re all hanging out in the backyard now. No idea when the owners are getting back but i never thought I’d ever have to participate in a wild goose chase in my life. The ducks and geese were looking at the turkeys today like “You said it was safe! You guys said it was safe here!”
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Hilarious
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Anyone want to take 100 of these home with you? Dont get me wrong i realize i will never starve. Part of we would rather starve than eat one more of them. Im not saying you wouldnt like them unless you have eaten as many as i have.
These wildlife in my garden are chiggers. Disregard the older scars that look like bruising. The chiggers love water and came with 3" of rain.
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Lol
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I had 1 but now 4 residents in my front yard alone every day to the point where the dogs don’t care.
They’re so cute though
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The foxes and hawk keep our rabbit population low. We have a family that lives at the end of the driveway, but any closer to the garden they get means they are right under the hawk’s home, and he is not shy about taking them home with him. The only large hungry visitor in my garden is the gopher tortoises, but they always stop at the tasty weeds.
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The hawks, owls, coyotes etc here eat rabbit everyday. They also eat sparrows , skunks etc. Like me they get tired of eating them.
The numbers dont work out here because they love what i love. It is intentional to a degree for my properties to be covered in game. I make brush piles for them and quail and thrushes etc to live. When i.was a kid an old man taught me to build places for wildlife so you would never starve. That old guy knew it was important to stack things in your favor. He was very satisfied seeing me grow up and watch the wildlife in an area increase by hundreds fold. Food is everywhere on my properties for everything that lives there. The rains are coming back which is increasing the clover. These legumes are increasing soil ferility. The rabbits , deer etc. Grow up to be very healthy eating leaves, clover, brome, and windfalls. The birds all eat mulberries and other fruits. The blackberries protect all the animals and birds while they raise their families.
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Your photo shows one about the age of the wheat straw colored youngster I shot some weeks ago - and much better focused. Nice job.
Sorry I don’t have a photo of mantids coming out the foam nest. Well, it was foam as mom made the nest, then it hardened and the hatchlings escape after winter by the score or even hundreds.
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Wool carder bee on its favorite plant:
And in mid-air:
Such strange creatures, coloured like a hairy wasp, flies like a hoverfly, but is an agressive territorial solitary bee.
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Nice photos.
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Thanks! Still amazes me what a 5 year old phone camera can do. Only disadvantage is that I end up taking so many photos that I struggle finding the ones I was looking for… taking too many!
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Yep, I do the same thing. Always having trouble finding the photo when I actually need it.
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