Casual Conversation

It's not my window, but a bald eagle has taken to observing the lake from a dead tree near where I moor my boat in the summer. It showed up two years ago, IIRC, as a juvenile, and I got to see it become white-headed. I usually see it in the morning when rowing to shore from the boat.

It's absolutely amazing to me to see one in the city, since they were so rare when I was a kid. It used to be that you'd have to go to the Prairie du Sac dam on the Wisconsin River in the winter to try to see a bald eagle, as they'd fish in the open, flowing water there when the rest of the river was iced over. Even then, it wasn't guaranteed you'd see one. Now, I see them as a part of my daily routine!

Can confirm, too, they use the hawk scream for bald eagle calls in movies and on TV, because their real call isn't intimidating. It sounds kind of like strangling a seagull.

Squirrels, birds, deer, owls, hawks, fish in the pond, dragonflies. My chickens in their pen. Sometimes we find luna moths. Lots of lizards, blue tailed skink. Grasshoppers over the spring months. And mosquitoes... those bastards

opposum, racoon, fox, squirrel, chipmunk, deer, bats, frogs, toads, copperhead, rattlesnake,etc turtles, lizards, newts, woodpeckers, bluejays, finches, chickadee, crows, hummingbirds, hawks, eagles, owls, buzzards, hornets, carpenter bees, ants, paper wasps, termites, cicadas, black widow, orb weaver spider, and countless other birds and bugs. Most interesting bug might be the bumblebee moth.

Red-eared slider turtles, smooth shell turtles, stupid huge snapping turtle, four species of duck, coots (aka chicken ducks), many species of heron, hawks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, lots of butterflies, and the occasional bobcat.

I live in Dallas, but got lucky and found a house with a tiny bit of nature in the concrete sprawl.

I see a lot of birds. I'm on a hill and I look down on a valley with many thermals. There are storks, herons, buzzards, red kites, black kites, crows, rooks, jackdaws and magpies. I hear a green woodpecker sometimes but I never see it. There's also a blackcap, loads of sparrows, blackbirds, a tree creeper, blue tits, great tits and black redstarts. And the neighbour's two ridgebacks and their cat.

Used to see chipmunks. The little fuckers knew the window screens trapped my kitties from getting them and would taunt them. Turkey once at the old spot. Skunks a few times at the old spot. Dogs and cats.

Now just birds and dogs being walked by their persons. How about you?

Pacific banana slugs, phantom crane flies, orange stripe bumble bees, mule deer, white tailed deer, black bears, crows, raven, bald eagle, turkey vultures, chipmunk, gray squirrels, bobcat, coho salmon in the river behind my property… a lot of very cool things to see, and we also have cougars but I’ve never personally seen one in the wild

Deer, squirrels, birds, lots of bugs, rabbits, toads, I've even seen a few snakes.

Rabbits, robins and sparrows. Starlings. Occasional cardinal. Some squirrels, maybe a cat. Couple of coyotes every year. I know there are mice and frogs about because they fall into my window wells, but I don’t see them otherwise.

Usually just fat pigeons, some smaller birds (not sure what they are), and the neighbourhood cats.

I used to get squirrels and the occasional hedgehog in my old place.