What animals did you see today?

[bluebinstein]

I took my cat out for a walk today :P and we saw a birb and a few dogos. Lots of people. And now he is at the door demanding to be taken back out again.

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

I saw a (or the?) cormorant again, this time sitting on the water, after dipping its head under. And a grey heron yesterday it called and landed on the water, I’ve never heard one before.

I’m not sure if I could even recognize a cormorant if they’re not drying off their wings?

There aren’t many kinds of water birds around here and no completely dark ones so I think that makes them stand out! I’ve never (in memory) seen them before this year so I’m excited.

Apart from that it’s the wing shape, I think that’s what caught my eye the most when it went past, or the proportions.

 

[gorgonzola]

An ermine/stoat. Inside my house. Probably followed the mice inside with the cooling weather. Cute little bugger.

Getting the cats out of the way so it doesn't try to fight them and setting a trap so we can release it somewhere else is very grounding, if not the most readily reproducible of grounding exercises.

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

Saw a kingfisher for the first time, I’m always too slow or don’t have sharp enough vision but this time I got to stare at it for ages. I didn’t know they were around here

 

[Lost in the Woods]

Coues deer behind the house.

 

[VioletButterfly]

So, I'm in my office trying to work with the headphones on when I hear this bang, bang, bang. Miffed and thinking it was maintenance, I started walking around looking out of my windows and then walked out onto the balcony. It was either the tiniest maintenance man I've ever seen or it was a very small black and white woodpecker. About the size of a cardinal? I tried to take a picture, but the screen obscured the bird. He was busy pecking away at decorative wooden trim outside of my office window. So cute and much smaller than the woodpecker I saw a few years back at another apartment. That thing was immense and had a read head, looked like a vicious clown and had a huge wingspan. Shudder. Anyway, wish I had a picture for you, but well, you get the detailed experience instead. :)

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

I saw a spitting spider, and a cormorant, it dipped under the water a couple of times and stayed under for so long. It looks so effortless when they dive, no splashing or anything, no running up either, they just go.

 

[ags1]

I was watching the enormous violet carpenter bees mobbing my herbs.

 

[ags1]

I've seen them before, but today was the first time I've known I was seeing a spotted firebug. I learned on wikipedia that they may be the sex champions of the natural world. Their coital joining can last up to seven days!

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

house sparrows and maybe a wren

 

[Rose White]

What is a

flower field wolf

 

[Teasel]

A coot, 2 Canadian geese, an elderly pug.