General Wildlife Thread - Page 2

**Pareeeee** · 09-29-12, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by cossiecraig

wow ,i learnt something today ,thankyou for enlightening me on the above ,i never knew they were Ravens . thanks again

They aren't ravens, I didn't say that, lol! They are very closely related, they can even be crossed. They are both Corvids, and both very, very intelligent.

cossiecraig · 09-29-12, 07:21 PM

[QUOTE=Pareeeee;772332]While they annoy the heck out of me by cawing at 5 AM, and getting into my garbage at times, I have always been fascinated by these amazing birds.

Crows are amazing, they and ravens are actually considered some of the most intelligent animals in the world.

thats right you didn't my apologies there for that error ,i still however learnt something regarding the 2 birds

Roadtrash · 09-30-12, 10:43 AM

Yeah but they can sure be annoying at times just like the "magpies" around Europe. But like you I do enjoy watching them at times.

Kaetlinv · 10-01-12, 12:43 AM

Was walking back to my dorm and saw a huge long bodied cellar spider on the outside frame of the window, and on the railing was a little ladybug. There was also an orb weaving spider tucked under the railing in plain sight but I couldn't get good enough lighting to take a shot of him.

The cellar spider was decent size, i'm pretty sure the edge of the window that he is sitting on spans an inch, so there's that for size comparison! haha

And here is the pretty little beetle.

smaller than a number 2 pencil eraser head!

BarelyBreathing · 10-01-12, 12:01 PM

THANK YOU for knowing the difference between a cellar spider and not a harvestman. And also, thanks for not calling it a daddy long legs. You get brownie points.

Kaetlinv · 10-01-12, 12:12 PM

I consider Cellar spiders to be adorable, along with jumping spiders. There's just something about them that's endearing, and most spiders I don't call 'cute', just 'pretty', haha.

I will never kill a cellar spider, and I try to leave them to their own lives. I actually try to protect them when I'm in other peoples' houses or my home.

I discovered their real name about a year ago when I found one inside a bathroom and was panicking trying to figure out if it was dangerous or not (I'm one of those people who WILL bother to research before killing something... one of the few.), and discovered that it helps keep dangerous spider populations within the house down. I saw a little one in the dorm the first few days I was here, but he's not here anymore. Must not have liked the traffic in the dorm.

That big cellar fellow though is still chilling on that window.

**Pareeeee** · 10-02-12, 06:46 PM

Jumping spiders are AWESOME! Love them. They seem to have such paranoid "personalities". Their eyesight is amazing too. Only spider I allow to stay inside my house. Others get the boot outside ;P

Kaetlinv · 10-02-12, 08:04 PM

I think jumpers are just adorable. I respect them a bit more mainly because I know they can CLEARLY see me, and I can see their eyes as well. Because of that sight, unless you really are asking for it, jumpers are more likely to jump away, rather than towards you...

bigsnakegirl785 · 10-13-12, 06:31 PM

Here are some old pictures.

A few white-tailed deer that were in our yard when I still lived in the trailer.

A tent caterpillar I found.

A pair of phoebes made a nest under the roof of our trailer, and I managed to get a few pics of the babies, this is one of them.

Some sort of spider, you can see the thread coming out of it.

bigsnakegirl785 · 10-25-12, 06:20 PM

I flipped over a piece of wood today and found an army of pillbugs....most of them fell off, there was over twice that amount originally. It's insane how many group together.

EmbraceCalamity · 10-26-12, 08:46 AM

Can I still post them if they became pets? >.>

~Maggot

BarelyBreathing · 10-26-12, 11:14 AM

Awww, I love the raccoon. Were any of them released?

Roadtrash · 10-26-12, 11:23 AM

Is the deer a buck or doe? I can't tell with my computer pictures are a problem for me sometime.

EmbraceCalamity · 10-26-12, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Roadtrash

Is the deer a buck or doe? I can't tell with my computer pictures are a problem for me sometime.

She was just a little fawn, but yes she was a doe.

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Originally Posted by BarelyBreathing

Awww, I love the raccoon. Were any of them released?

The raccoon died of rabies after I'd had him for a month and a half. The fawn got attacked by my one prick dog after I'd have her for several months, and she ran off and never came back. She was eating solid foods, had lost her spots, and had taken to spending the day out in the woods on her own by that point, and she always had a healthy fear of humans except me, so I hope she has survived. I loved her but she drove me nuts. X) Plus after the raccoon incident, I was risking some serious trouble with the law if anyone found out.

~Maggot

BarelyBreathing · 10-26-12, 04:00 PM

Yikes, that's scary!