Nyboy
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Creature that seems the most of; living in my garden are deer!!!!!!
What interesting creatures live in your garden?
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Lavender2
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I'm having quite a time with the deer this year also. I've had to double up on spraying the hostas and phlox, with all the rain we've been having. And add more fishing line and deterrents for the jumpers on the veggie garden back fence. I was just watching one across the road, ready to run out and defend my lily buds.
Carol Dee
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Hal you have some very interesting creatures there!
Here are a few of ours:
baby whitetail fawn
Bull snake, not liking to be bothered by dog!
Male Eastern Bluebird
Bluebird babies
Raising Honey bees
Bumble bee
Praying Mantis,
Here are a few of ours:
baby whitetail fawn
Bull snake, not liking to be bothered by dog!
Male Eastern Bluebird
Bluebird babies
Raising Honey bees
Bumble bee
Praying Mantis,
Lavender2
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SNAKE! 
...standing behind @catjac1975 ..
Wonderful photo of the fawn in the clover!
Dragonflies! I forgot about the dragonflies. We have tons of them! Itty bitty ones, blue ones, and lots of giant ones... they probably have real names...
...standing behind @catjac1975 ..Wonderful photo of the fawn in the clover!
Dragonflies! I forgot about the dragonflies. We have tons of them! Itty bitty ones, blue ones, and lots of giant ones... they probably have real names...
Carol Dee
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@Lavender2 you need to post that one in the caption contest.
Lavender2
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Will do.
Funny thing, dragonflies usually land for only a few seconds... that one clung to that nose for an entire day ...
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Not a lot seen this year (it's been a little sparse all around). A butterfly actually made it's crhysalis ON my bean plants last year (probably a cabbage white based on the shape) but i missed seeing it (I just found the empty skin when I was doing cleanup) And last year a mantis came along settled in the wheat, and liked it so much she (it was too big for a he) stayed for several weeks hiding out on a stem (which was not great camoflauge as she was larger than the stem she was hiding on).Inornically at the same time she was there there was a hornworm on the plants on the other side of the patio; munching down the tomato vines (they were dying anyway by then, so I said "let the little bugger have his fun, he can get more use out of them at this point than I can) I seriosly wondered if at some point the mantis would fly over and eat the worm (It didn't it the worm was still there when I left, though it did dissapear some weeks later.)
There are usually some eastern black swallowtail caterpillars around by midsummer, and i assume some will show up at some point this year; naturally or artificially (i.e. I buy a fennel plant that already has them and bring them into the garden.
I think I saw a small toad three or four weeks ago.
Earlier this previos winter, we actually had a mated pair of Bald Eagles across the street, but I think they have left by now. The Red Tail on the other side of the property is still there through, I think.
Other than that, not much this year. I think there have been some loopers (inchworms) around and this moring there was some sort of caterpillar eating the flower off the rose on the side.
Only other notables are the big animals that sometimes show up. There was Pogo the opposum (who developed a taste for the leftover beans I was throwing out, and scared the crap out of us by showing up on our front walk and not being particualry scared of people. Count Stinkula, the skunk that lives in the woodpile across the street with the defective stripe (it gets as far as his shoulders, then flares out across then and does not continue on to his tail) Oh and in the back is Bobtail, a squirrel who due to missing 90% of it's tail, has developed the odd habit of loping rather than springing, so he or she actuall moves like a rabbit. The scary part is, he's also grown to the SIZE of a rabbit he must be GREAT at finding food. (or he just gorges hinself on the stuff we throw out.
There are usually some eastern black swallowtail caterpillars around by midsummer, and i assume some will show up at some point this year; naturally or artificially (i.e. I buy a fennel plant that already has them and bring them into the garden.
I think I saw a small toad three or four weeks ago.
Earlier this previos winter, we actually had a mated pair of Bald Eagles across the street, but I think they have left by now. The Red Tail on the other side of the property is still there through, I think.
Other than that, not much this year. I think there have been some loopers (inchworms) around and this moring there was some sort of caterpillar eating the flower off the rose on the side.
Only other notables are the big animals that sometimes show up. There was Pogo the opposum (who developed a taste for the leftover beans I was throwing out, and scared the crap out of us by showing up on our front walk and not being particualry scared of people. Count Stinkula, the skunk that lives in the woodpile across the street with the defective stripe (it gets as far as his shoulders, then flares out across then and does not continue on to his tail) Oh and in the back is Bobtail, a squirrel who due to missing 90% of it's tail, has developed the odd habit of loping rather than springing, so he or she actuall moves like a rabbit. The scary part is, he's also grown to the SIZE of a rabbit he must be GREAT at finding food. (or he just gorges hinself on the stuff we throw out.
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sumi
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@Carol Dee that bumblebee pic is beautiful! What camera do you use? I battle so with close up pics, my camera will NOT focus. Anything closer than a few inches I can forget about and zooming in doesn't help much either.
@Lavender2 I love that dragonfly!
@Lavender2 I love that dragonfly!
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Carol Dee
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Ewww. Not a fan of dangerous snakes. ughh.
