Sharing THEIR world with US. A universe in my own back yard!

Richard - We just don't find that much in our backyard, and such gorgeous photos too.

Sounds like there is an animal house party going on in your back yard!

Good morning Richard. As usual, your poetry sets the tone for your post and it's all good. Wonderful pictures and amazing variety. I have many new friends (or enemies) too. Most notably are the bears and coyotes.

Richard, we also live in a subdivision. A couple of weeks ago we had a Raccoon who decided to move into my workshop. We are now going through a 17 year cycle from a Cicada invasion. Isn't nature great?

Great pictures Richard. .it just takes an instance to preserve its beauty. .

We have many different birds that visit us during times of the year. They love our bird feeder. However, our cat loves it, too.

Great pictures Richard! You're lucky to have such a variety of wild life right in your own backyard. I'll get the occasional deer, but that's about it.

I live in a Natural wildlife corridor that goes on for thousands of miles in either direction. Everything travels it like a freeway and I like it too

Richard, how wonderful! I do love to sit outside and watch who comes and goes. Facinating to me!

Richard -- that is a great sales pitch for anyone considering moving to your area, that all those life forms are available in one's own backyard!  (Unless, of course, if you don't like your nature that close!)

Amazing what you can find in your own backyard, isn't it, so I'll make an effort to discover what you have already done.

Richard, I wish everyone held the same perspective … they are sharing their world with US and we must respect them all.  I am to the point where I put spiders back outside. I have so much respect for life!

This is a nice post, did you get the idea from Jeff's snake post? I am really glad to see the beauty of whats around us in your yard and not turning it into a disclosure.

BTW I think you did a great job turning it into a big positive and not a negative to disclose.

Your photos are great. That back yard sounds lke paradise. You are fortunate to be able to enjoy all of this nature.

Betty

Great pictures, I love taking pictures of wildlife in the area whenever I get the opportunity. I got a picture of a Gila Monster recently when waiting for an appraiser. I shared the picture with the buyers who are nature lovers and they enjoyed seeing it. I always use pictures of the birds and wildlife on my listings.

Jacqueline Drake CRS

Cochise County AZ

 

I think you have a different, and even wider, variety of critters than we do here in cold and snowy North Idaho.

We see deer, coyotes, and sometimes a moose or a few elk in the pasture outside our house. Two weeks ago a bear made a dash across the field. But even though they live here, I've never seen a whole cougar (just a tail disappearing off the side of the road), nor more than the face of a young racoon, peering at me from behind a tree trunk. Perhaps my noisy dogs keep them away.

Rabbits and turtles appear - but not often, and I nearly stepped on a garter snake one day.

My husband feeds a flock of blue jays - and they become VERY demanding if he isn't outside on time in the morning!

Then there are the turkeys. They aren't native here, but fish & game planted them and they've become a nuisance at homes that don't have dogs to send them flying away. (My dogs think it's great fun!)

Whatever comes into view - I always feel privileged when I see wildlife.

We just had a huge blue heron take three of our large six inch goldfish from one of our two ponds at our Smith River property.

Hi Richard great colorful post with beautiful photos!  Good old South has lots of diversity.

Richard,

What a clever post. In my neighborhood there are birds, squirrels, armadillos, bats, bobcats, foxes and coyotes!