Semi-pets and four legged squatters of Wein

[Denverdave]

I live on a dairy and horse farm so I'm surrounded with animals...

I did not know that. Very, very cool!

 

[DdBob]

I saw these on Tucson reddit today....

critters....
https://www.missiongarden.org/events/critter-night-2023

 

[LeftyTom]

Tons of squirrels.
An occasional raccoon.
A lot of deer.
Apparently a mole or two - wish I knew how to get rid of them.
Wild turkeys. The males are stupid aggressive. They can go elsewhere and I would not miss them much.
Last fall we had a bear in the neighborhood.

If you see a hole "doorway" to a tunnel, put some used coffee grounds in the hole. Same strategy if you see mole tunnels in your yard.

 

[Tig]

We feed our resident squirrels in the front yard and now Muscovy ducks visit twice a day for the seed and corn. Our dogs have scared away most Opossums. We have a Red-bellied Woodpecker pair and a Cardinal pair that bring their offspring to feed in the back yard every year. I never tire of seeing all of the other regulars, like tree frogs, Black-bellied Whistling Ducks and the annual Blue Grosbeak/Indigo Bunting/Ruby-throated Hummingbird visitors.

 

[Modern Saint]

The uninvited are Squirrels mostly
On rare occasions now, a skunk but I do not believe they come into our back yard unless they are climbing.

The ones that are invited are Butterflies, Hummingbirds and Honeybees.

 

[Dudeman1967]

Forgot about the snake in my wood pile and the tree frogs are out of control this year.

 

[tiger roach]

We saw a bobcat this morning. He was a cool kitty.

 

[Andrew Sak]

squirrels, rabbits, blue bellied lizards, hawks, occasionally raccoons and Coyotes.

Not long ago, we had this guy dining on some road kill in the middle of our street.
Turkey vulture.

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Well, today we have bears . Very close.

 

[jelloman]

I did not know that. Very, very cool!

There are 3 dairy farms in the immediate area...the one my Brother-in-law and sister own is on the corner and has fields on both sides of the road and a 100 stall barn...three of their four kids and their families live on the farm, each being given a 5 acre plot to build on...

The house I live in is the farmhouse from their previous farm which was sold off for development years ago...I occupy the mother-in-law apartment on the back of the house, and a gaggle of 20-something girls (all Jehovah's Witnesses) occupy the main house...

Just across the road is the horse farm...my father built it about 25 years ago on a 10 acre plot he bought from my brother-in-law...after passing through several subsequent owners my nephew Sam and his wife bought it out of foreclosure and run a very successful boarding and riding farm...SO successful that they have opted to convert the big farm to horses, a decision based on a number of factors related to dairy co-op issues and export problems...so far he has split the barn in half, built 12 large horse stalls, fenced off about 50 acres and started building a riding ground...

About 1/2 mile down the road is another farm, once owned by my grandfather, passed to my brother-in-law's father, and now owned by an old family friend...still a working dairy farm...

About a mile away is my cousin's farm, which was originally owned by my grandfather's brother...

These are 3 of the last 5 working dairy farms in the county...once upon a time there was north of 100 working farms in the county...