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More city wildlife
By: Aardtacha Date: October 26, 2025, 1:45 pm
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A month or so ago I posted the picture of the ribbon snake that
got into our house and I eventually managed to encourage it out.
A week or more back I talked about the chicken that just moved
into our front yard (no one has claimed her yet). Last week my
husband mentioned seeing a roadrunner back by our shed, but said
it flew away before he could get his camera out. I won't say I
didn't believe him, but, well, he's not the strongest at
identifying birds.
So today as I was filling the water bowl we leave out for the
squirrel (Sploot), I looked up and the roadrunner was standing
on my fence, watching me. He was panting -- it's been dry here
so I know a lot of birds come to use all the dogs' waterbowls
(we have 7 bowls in the yard) for drinks. I think he was, too.
So here's our latest wild visitor:
[attach=1]
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Re: More city wildlife
By: Aardtacha Date: October 26, 2025, 1:47 pm
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Oh, for --! It's right side up on my computer, but rotated
here. This one's pixelated because I zoomed rather than try to
get too close.
Here's one less zoomed in (but probably also upside down):
[attach=1]
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Re: More city wildlife
By: LabPartner Date: October 26, 2025, 1:55 pm
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Meep meep.
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Re: More city wildlife
By: Aardtacha Date: October 26, 2025, 1:57 pm
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We do have coyotes in town...
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Re: More city wildlife
By: northbayteky Date: October 26, 2025, 3:24 pm
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Road runners are so cute. I saw them at the resort in Palm
Springs when I stayed there with my sister. When they walk they
streamline - their head goes forward and the little tuft on
their head goes back and the tail feathers go straight back.
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Re: More city wildlife
By: kkt Date: October 26, 2025, 7:27 pm
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=3809.msg354373#msg354373
date=1761505025]
We do have coyotes in town...
[/quote]
Tell them to stay away from Acme Products.
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Re: More city wildlife
By: Aardtacha Date: November 1, 2025, 7:41 pm
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Yesterday I was being scolded by the green jays for daring to be
on my own back patio while Bess was eating. Roadrunner had come
farther into our yard and I got a bit of footage of him. This
morning he was hanging around the extra playroom (a converted
back porch), probably checking for some of the fence lizards
that hang around our house and yard. The dogs ignored him and
he they until someone was in/walking past our front yard and the
girls roared around the corner to bark at them. He zipped off,
but they paid him about as much attention as they do the cats.
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Re: More city wildlife
By: Aardtacha Date: November 23, 2025, 11:20 am
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Well, we no longer have the chicken. She foolishly got into the
back yard this morning and the dogs roughed her up. I saw the
feathers and called in the dogs, then Mr Tacha and I walked the
yard looking for her. We didn't see her and let the dogs back
out and heard her clucking. Called the dogs back in and this
time actually could spot her. There's dead Johnson grass back
along the fence and shed, and she was burrowed down in there.
I give the dogs credit -- they came in very quickly when I
called them away from her. We covered her with a towel and
bunged her into a cat carrier and called our friend with the
chickens. He came over and checked her out -- we all agree that
she was just scared and lost a bunch of feathers, so he took her
home to go live with his chickens. (We wanted Max to get her
anyway; we just couldn't catch her before this happened.)
We are relieved. We do like Margaret, and it was fun to have
her come greet us in the morning as we went out the front door,
but this is much safer for her. Max has a chicken run that is
fully enclosed with wire to keep his flock safe. Margaret will
spend a week or so in the run but in a kennel about the size of
a rabbit hutch before she can join the rest of the flock.
Here's Margaret before the great backyard disaster:
[attach=1]
This was when we first noticed her back in October. She's
actually filled out a fair bit more since then.
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Re: More city wildlife
By: Aardtacha Date: December 26, 2025, 2:12 pm
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Opened the garage door to take out a bag of trash and that
wretched snake slithered right into the garage. Of course he
ducked under some shelving units so I can't easily get to him to
shoo him out. I get why he wants in -- the roadrunner has taken
to hanging out in the front and it's a bit dangerous for him but
dammit, I don't need a ribbon snake in my garage no matter what
they eat.
Now I get to hope he isn't hanging out by the door to the house
every time we open it until I can shoo him back out or it's been
quiet enough that we think he's gone. He moves damned fast --
I'd just as soon he didn't make it into the house again this
year.
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Re: More city wildlife
By: Lurknomore Date: December 26, 2025, 5:47 pm
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I occasionally had chorus frogs in our rural house. More than
once I’d go to get in the shower and think there was a small
leaf, put on my glasses, and voila, a 🐸! About 2 months
ago, there was one who quickly ducked in front door after hiding
under threshold, and that little guy was halfway up the living
room wall in a split second. I managed to round them up safely.
I think one of them was Talitha. And I think I told this before.
😬
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