The wild animals that live among us

Hmm, that Lemon Jelly video seemed a bit odd, but I couldn’t think why… At youtube I found the explanation that the video is reversed in order to get around a youtube block. Oh!

But in the comments someone posted this link to it on archive, where it can be seen right-way-around as we remember it :slight_smile:

(It had been posted on archive by the same person who posted the reversed video on youtube.)

https://archive.org/details/lemon-jelly-nice-weather-for-ducks

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Thank you!

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Yay! Turtle in my yard!

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:musical_note: Turtle in the yard
Turtle in the yard
It’s standing there on guard
With shell so very hard
What delight to perceive
Down there among the leaves
Turtle in the yard
:musical_note:

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Cool!
isn’t she beautiful?!
i loves tortoises and turtles!

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Who brings all the turtles to the yard?:notes:

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A pair of doves, momma rabbit, and baby rabbit.

There are two baby bunnies living in the yard. I thought there was only one survivor until my daughter saw two yesterday.

Momma rabbit has made another nest, dead center of my front yard. Not too smart.

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Family bun edition (with extra special bonus dove birbs).

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That’s a beautiful, sexy turkle!

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He’s late! Yesterday was World Turtle Day.

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Really turtles deserve a week so they have a chance to get there in time.

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Yeah, I think @chenille is correct… and I’d say that for a turtle, they were right on time! :turtle:

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The crime wave that is sweeping the nation. A Coatimundi stole the sandwinch of a tourist in broadlight!

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Didn’t witness this, myself - it happened about 3 or 4 miles west of here.

ETA:
P.S. We’re further east than that (i.e., a longer journey for the bears), but presumably they’d prefer the woods around us. So I’ve long assumed there could be bears around us. (We definitely have or had coyotes)

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Well fed jackdaw

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Agile* wallabies.

*adjective and noun.

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Well on his way to borbdom.

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Now that right there looks like a creature I would not want to fight.

Not that I ever pick fights with creatures, but from the looks of him, I think he might be the one to start it. And possibly to finish it too.

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Your comment made me realise the photos don’t give any sense of scale - these are small/medium dog size, and pretty timid, despite the “who you looking at?” vibe of the close up. So quite a way from the famously muscular red kangaroos like Roger.

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What is going on here?

Enhance:

More birds nesting, Carolina wrens this time. They can build a nest in an afternoon, so now I have a twitchy mama wren with 4 eggs (so far?) in her nest on my rusty potting cart right next to the front porch. I will do my best to give her space in hopes that she doesn’t abandon the nest, but this is not a secluded area.

And the purple finches are starting construction on a nest on top of one of the poorly installed front porch posts, but I need a step ladder to photograph that one.

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