Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Random critters

A bunny and two (male) cardinals. The bunnies love the wild strawberries that grow in our yard.


A Fiery Searcher beetle:
















Dragonflies on the porch.





























One day I walked out of the house and heard something rustling in the leafs. It was a cute little toad ... but what's it doing?


Aha! Poor baby had gotten caught by a snake.















Eventually the snake let go of the toad and it was able to hobble to safety! The snake slithered away then stopped and stuck out its forked little tongue at me, before continuing into the bushes.















Our resident groundhog, George.















He gets spooked easily so it's hard to take good pictures of him. Here's one of him running to safety after he caught sight of me:

I found this beetle in the yard one day and haven't seen in since. It's a black and white spotted Leopard Moth.





































There are lots of turtles in the neighborhood because of the water nearby, but it's not often we find them on the lawn.
















They don't move to fast so it's easy to get a close up:















A beaver in one of the city lakes.















I'll try to post new animal pictures every few months or so.


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