Other NON tortoise images of things I find in my backyard

2nd roof tile ....up from the bottom....

N2TORTS said:

2nd roof tile ....up from the bottom....

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Topman. Yes. The house sparrow, the most common UK bird, bit still amazing watching the adults copes the young out to fly for the first time, and a fine example of how nature has adapted to the human species. Using houses instead of trees to nest as always as do bats.

Another black rat snake again today.

Michaela......great finds and cool pics!...Do you ever find any Indigos' out your way .....?

Well I did convince "Irvin" to come out for pic.....

Nope, I've never found an indigo. I checked in my field guide and they aren't found in Illinois though. I hear they're pretty uncommon. I've only ever found the black rats, ringnecks, garters, northern water snakes, brown snakes, and once a prairie king snake.

MichaelaW said:

Nope, I've never found an indigo. I checked in my field guide and they aren't found in Illinois though. I hear they're pretty uncommon. I've only ever found the black rats, ringnecks, garters, northern water snakes, brown snakes, and once a prairie king snake.

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They are an amazing snake ....definitely the largest of the " rat type snakes".....ultra *****'n black , very docile ...but a mean black eaten' machine out in the field . They will consume any poisonous snake they come across ...no problem ....and just about everything else that crosses their path.

This is what I saw in my back yard about a month ago.

MichaelaW said:

This is what I saw in my back yard about a month ago.

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Wow

As you can probably see, I have a forest in my backyard so I get a wide diversity of different wildlife. I love it!

MichaelaW said:

As you can probably see, I have a forest in my backyard so I get a wide diversity of different wildlife. I love it!

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Looks nice. Where do you live.

Central Illinois

I know this picture has nothing to do with critters, but this is Mother Nature at her finest! A gorgeous Tucson sunset tonight. I just wanted to share some of the Sonoran Desert beauty in south Arizona.

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I know this picture has nothing to do with critters, but this is Mother Nature at her finest! A gorgeous Tucson sunset tonight. I just wanted to share some of the Sonoran Desert beauty in south Arizona.

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Nice. It's all connected to nature. And I bet there's a 1000 critters in that photo. Lol . We just can't see them. Lol.

Here is an ORB Spider ......this web is around four feet in diameter at least and is about 10 feet up in the air .....

Here's the view of the cornfield behind my house... Great place to find all sorts of critters.

Some of my back yard creatures

Wow... Great photos.

cyan said:

Some of my back yard creatures

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Is that last one a praying mantus. I was on hols last year in cyprus. We were in a Greek restaurant and a praying mantis fell off the roof onto my dinner. Bit of useless info lol.
Quite funny to look down at my dinner with a praying mantis staring back at me.

Anyfoot said:

Is that last one a praying mantus. I was on hols last year in cyprus. We were in a Greek restaurant and a praying mantis fell off the roof onto my dinner. Bit of useless info lol.
Quite funny to look down at my dinner with a praying mantis staring back at me.

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Yes, it's a baby one. There is an ant on the branch to show size!