My house in Danbury was across the street from a 600 acre town park that was mostly still wild. I came home late one night to see a fox very casually trotting down the street. I often walked in the park, and thankfully never saw a snake, or that might have been the end of it.
We've taken so much of their habitat. Turning it back over to them at night seems only fair.
Come on you two. We had a garter snake that fell in love with our green garden hose, wrapping itself around the hose when the sun was out. It was cute!
We have so much wildlife around my house. To name a few: bear, deer, porcupine, turkeys, eagles, and lots of foxes. The wildlife seems to be increasing here. We never saw bear or fox when we first moved in 30 years ago.
I haven’t seen a bear though people in this area have. It’s weirdly comforting to know the animals have the run of the streets and yards and fields at night.
I’ve heard a a fisher cat scream(?) a few times. It’s spooky. We live in town so while we have a diverse collection of critters, they’re mostly smallish and on the tame side. Skunks, rabbits, possums, raccoons. We have a resident raccoon who’s completely unimpressed with any attempts to scare it off. When we’re sitting around our fire pit in the backyard it will waddle through a break in the fence just a couple of feet from us for another attempt to break into the metal garbage can where we keep birdseed. So far so good. A small boat anchor and a concrete block on the lid has kept the seed safe but the raccoon isn’t giving up. It’s taken down our feeders a couple of times sending me to the hardware store to devise ever more complicated feeder defenses. Sometimes I feel like Bill Murray in “Caddyshack”, trying to outsmart the gopher.
100%! I live on a mountain side, and the wildlife living amongst we tamelife sustains me! And it is a stellar year for lightning bugs and wild lettuce. I heal here. Wi Fi be damned, I love the sound of the peepers and frogs, and the butterflies flying around, ah. The Farmington River flowing through our little village is personable, for true. Nice story!
Wildlife is amazing and sometimes amusing. When we lived on a three acre spread in Colchester, we only saw groundhogs. And sadly, the thing that killed our cat and dog was a motor vehicle.
We’ve since lived many years in a suburban neighborhood and I’ve seen and heard more wildlife than I could imagine. Raccoons, possums, bunnies, lots of Fox, hawks, owls, bobcats, fisher cats?, deer and a momma bear and her cubs. Many in daylight even! The screams of the fisher cat and fox can send chills up your spine!
Once we lived in the woods, and we'd hear a whole chorus of fox (foxes) just over the next rise. At first, it was scary, but then? I came to look forward to the concert.
We have several dens in the woods behind our house. So I have gotten used to them now. Our yard is fenced in but they will trot around it and even walk up the sidewalk in broad daylight.
My house in Danbury was across the street from a 600 acre town park that was mostly still wild. I came home late one night to see a fox very casually trotting down the street. I often walked in the park, and thankfully never saw a snake, or that might have been the end of it.
We've taken so much of their habitat. Turning it back over to them at night seems only fair.
That’s just what I was thinking. Let them have it back.
Come on you two. We had a garter snake that fell in love with our green garden hose, wrapping itself around the hose when the sun was out. It was cute!
We have so much wildlife around my house. To name a few: bear, deer, porcupine, turkeys, eagles, and lots of foxes. The wildlife seems to be increasing here. We never saw bear or fox when we first moved in 30 years ago.
I haven’t seen a bear though people in this area have. It’s weirdly comforting to know the animals have the run of the streets and yards and fields at night.
NatGeo worthy.
Amen.
Just what I needed this morning. Thank you.
I’ve heard a a fisher cat scream(?) a few times. It’s spooky. We live in town so while we have a diverse collection of critters, they’re mostly smallish and on the tame side. Skunks, rabbits, possums, raccoons. We have a resident raccoon who’s completely unimpressed with any attempts to scare it off. When we’re sitting around our fire pit in the backyard it will waddle through a break in the fence just a couple of feet from us for another attempt to break into the metal garbage can where we keep birdseed. So far so good. A small boat anchor and a concrete block on the lid has kept the seed safe but the raccoon isn’t giving up. It’s taken down our feeders a couple of times sending me to the hardware store to devise ever more complicated feeder defenses. Sometimes I feel like Bill Murray in “Caddyshack”, trying to outsmart the gopher.
Raccoons are so skilled at opening things. We used to weight down a bird seed container, and up to a cement block, nothing worked.
100%! I live on a mountain side, and the wildlife living amongst we tamelife sustains me! And it is a stellar year for lightning bugs and wild lettuce. I heal here. Wi Fi be damned, I love the sound of the peepers and frogs, and the butterflies flying around, ah. The Farmington River flowing through our little village is personable, for true. Nice story!
I love silence.
The only time I am unafraid.
That is fascinating.
I am closest to the divine while in sacred silence.
Like Elijah on the mountain and pay no heed to the lightning and thunder.
Wildlife is amazing and sometimes amusing. When we lived on a three acre spread in Colchester, we only saw groundhogs. And sadly, the thing that killed our cat and dog was a motor vehicle.
We’ve since lived many years in a suburban neighborhood and I’ve seen and heard more wildlife than I could imagine. Raccoons, possums, bunnies, lots of Fox, hawks, owls, bobcats, fisher cats?, deer and a momma bear and her cubs. Many in daylight even! The screams of the fisher cat and fox can send chills up your spine!
Once we lived in the woods, and we'd hear a whole chorus of fox (foxes) just over the next rise. At first, it was scary, but then? I came to look forward to the concert.
We have several dens in the woods behind our house. So I have gotten used to them now. Our yard is fenced in but they will trot around it and even walk up the sidewalk in broad daylight.
Deception happens when there’s too noise.