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#61
13-06-2008
The most we see in our yard are Jack Rabbits, Blue Jays, Magpies, Chickadees and Sparrows, Pigeons, Robbins, and other common Albertan birds... A few years ago we saw a squirrel, and when we first moved here, there were brown bats.
Nearby at an old military base turned gated community, there are Canada Geese, various species of ducks, pheasants, wood frogs, boreal chorus frogs, red winged black birds, etc. |
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#62
14-06-2008
woke up this morning to the worst bird call ever, its was a group of crows and a group of magpies arguing at each other, and it went on for 30 minutes, i had a damn headache at the end of it!
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#63
14-06-2008
Well the Bandicoots in my yard have dug so many holes in the lawn maybe I should hire it out for golf LOL
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#64
14-06-2008
Sounds like the lawn of our holiday house at phillip island. Only its the rabbits.
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#65
14-06-2008
he he funny! lucky i live away from rabbits and banicoots
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#66
15-06-2008
I just thought of another animal that wasn't really in our backyard but they were the coolest things i've ever seen. We found two blind snakes when we were digging holes for fence posts.
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#67
15-06-2008
other day we got an eastern spinebill in our garden. after moving into suburbia this was quite exciting as they were rarely seen even in the country
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#68
15-06-2008
today in my backyard i seen a noisy miner. It's the first time i have seen one in my area. i am a bit worried about seeing it because of their aggresion. red wattlebirds have already taken over the grevillea's at my house now with another honey eater in the area i probably will stop seeing the little honeyeaters like the lewins, new holland and eastern spinebill.
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#69
16-06-2008
I had a greater spotted woodpecker, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Gold crest, Wren, Robin, Blue tit, coal tit, great tit, tree creeper, Blackbird, feral pigeon and Collared dove in my garden last saturday!
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#70
16-06-2008
Noisy Miners drive me crazy Boof. We had a pair that were really aggressive toward humans and would swoop at me and my family and they weren't afraid of making contact either. So every year we would take their nest out of the tree and eventually they moved away.
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#71
24-06-2008
This guy (among others) also lives in my garden (Limax maximus)
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#72
27-04-2009
The birds around my house are:
Rock Dove (rare) Eurasian Collared Dove Mourning Dove White-winged Dove Inca Dove (rare) Budgerigar (only once, i assume it was someone's pet that escaped) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (only once) Blue Jay American Crow (rare) Bewick's Wren Northern Mockingbird American Robin European Starling Cedar Waxwing House Finch House Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird (rare) Great-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird |
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#73
27-04-2009
Aside from dandelions....
American robin mourning dove American crow black-billed magpie red-tailed hawk American kestrel red-winged blackbird California quail northern flicker dark-eyed junco house sparrow house finch and the occaisional eastern fox squirrel that list varies by season to a great degree |
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#74
27-04-2009
We really can't compete in the UK can we ?
I've lived in North Herts towns for the last 19 years ..... currently, although 10 mins from the town centre, my cul de sac backs straight onto a field so I guess that kind of counts as country, and hearing foxes make that strange barking they do (especially at this time of the year) is common, as well as hearing owls hooting when you're lying in bed. I don't get much in my back garden unless it is dead - or half dead - thanks to my cats. All sorts of rodents - rats, mice, and shrews, plus quite a lot of baby birds and rabbits. I do quite often find frogs amongst my plants though despite me or my immediate neighbours not having a pond. In Hitchin, where I lived for 10 years, and later, in Stotfold (a village about 7 miles north) we regularly got black squirrels. It always bemuses me when these are reported as some kind of news story every so often because they seemed so common. They are associated in particular with nearby Letchworth (3 miles from Hitchin) and are obviously happily breeding and spreading - though I've not seen any in Royston yet. I also had small deer in my very small garden on 3 occasions - muntjac ? My Hitchin neighbour also had a European Eagle Owl in his garden - but that was there by design, not accident ! |
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