Category: Wildlife

Stocked

On By CarynIn Wildlife

We went to the Fort Worth Zoo the other day and I got a kick out of seeing the wild heron fishing at the fish stocked hippo tank.

Photo description: slightly damp heron standing at the edge of the hippo pool, which is full of fish as seen through the glass on the bottom half of the photo

Fish are kept in the hippo pool as a natural cleaning crew for dung, algae, and hippo skin.

Together

On By CarynIn Wildlife

We have a couple of raccoon buddies hanging out in the woods. Rather than the opossums, who arrive individually and leave separately, the raccoons show up and head out together.

Photo description: night vision view of two raccoons climbing the stairs on the back porch of the coop
Photo description: same two raccoons coming back down the stairs

Bath time

On By CarynIn Wildlife

A raccoon decided to have bath time in front of the trail cam.

Photo description: night vision view of raccoon cleaning its arm pit
Photo description: same raccoon now cleaning its back
Photo description: same raccoon with its back leg up

Standoff

On By CarynIn Cats, Uncategorized, Wildlife

It has been while since I checked trail cams. Mostly the SD cards were full of cats, raccoons, and opossums, but there was a series of photos where an opossum was investigating the cat food when a cat came along.

Photo description: night vision view of a back step off the coop with a young opossum, back to the camera, and a black short haired cat, facing the camera

The result was a no-contest. The cat went straight to the bowl of the food on the cat box, away from the opossum, and when the cat settled in to eat and not attack, the opossum left. I’m pretty sure the cat is the one we call Greebo, who has scars from fighting and his fur is thinned with some kind of mange. He actually looks healthier since he joined the neighborhood colony. The last couple years he and Fang show up in the Fall and then head out again in Spring or Summer.

Stunned

On By CarynIn Wildlife

This little dark eyed junco bashed into our window, leaving it a little stunned. Normally I would leave them alone, but it was on the metal trash can in sub freezing temperatures.

Photo description: dark eyed Junco bird on a metal trash can lid

I grabbed a shoe box, gently put the bird in, and brought it inside to rest.

After about 20 minutes, the birds started to rustle around in the box and I took the box back outside and opened it up. A very irritated bird flew out and into the trees.