What’s your favorite critter? [NOT 8/6/23]

8/6/23 brightersideoflife 33

Hi, friends!

What’s your favorite critter/critters to see?

I love the chonky opossum I sometimes see in the back of the yard. I hope they eat tons of bugs. I also get super excited when I find a praying mantis.

So what is it? Squirrel? Fox? Trash panda? Butterfly? Ladybug? Lightning bug? Neighbor’s cat?

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33 Comments

  2. Holy shit, Trump indicted by Special Counsel’s Grand Jury.

  3. Not sure if this counts as a “critter” but I do love when deer come running through my parents’ yard. They live near a bird sanctuary and they get a pretty good variety of wildlife coming by. (The downside is ticks, of course; my son picked one up earlier this spring while at grandma’s house!)

  4. Living on a lake there’s lots of waterfowl. So my favorite ones to see are the Hooded Megansers in spring and fall. Last year we saw a green heron which I didn’t even know existed.

  5. All the birds keep me entertained, especially the hummingbirds.  I love owls but much harder to spot on a regular basis.

    • Don’t you have otters too?

      EDITED: Oops, wrong thread…. Otters still can’t vote.

      • We do.  They are building a nest about 15 feet from our dock.  Which should make it interesting with Butcher Dog swimming.

        • Fifteen feet? You have to get some photos once the kiddos start swimming.

    • I don’t remember who said it (Hannibal?) but I subscribe to the theory that the conservative assholes on the court draw straws to see which ones have to deliver sane verdicts to propagate the fig leaf of impartiality. Their public opinion ratings are lower than salmonella.

      If this amounts to anything, the others will overthrow it at the first opportunity. Precedent no longer has value in American jurisprudence.

        • Okay, my official go-to for anything I don’t correctly remember is HammerZeitgeist.

  7. Foxes seem to be showing up more and more around me, but I still get a thrill seeing them.

    • My next door neighbor sent me a video of a fox walking through our yards. They are bigger than I thought!

       

      • Their height and length isn’t much less than our dog, but I was surprised to read they typically weigh a lot less than her weight.

        I think part of it is they have a lot of fluff, and also they are a lot more active than our dog, who lies around most of the time.

  8. Duh, dogs. Any dogs. This extends to include foxes, dingos, and red pandas. And kitsune, hell hounds, barghests, and gwyllgi.

  10. All the critters.

  11. I have a trash panda and he is my least favorite favorite! Only b/c I have to bungee cord my garbage can!

    • Our trash panda neighbor ate all my wine grapes last year.  Bastard!

  12. next doors cat….least i assume its a cat

    i mostly know it as the paw of doom

    theres a part of the fence that has just enough of a gap for him to smoosh his face against the floor to see and a paw to swipe through….so he does whenever one of my cats forgets to leave enough distance….so he does….shits hilarious

    also pretty funny watching my token catnip offerings get yoinked if i put them within reach

  13. For the past eight years I thought I was seeing beavers swimming in Lake Washington… last week I found out that they are actually nutria an invasive species from South America. Basically giant water rats. Far less cute a concept. Ignorance was bliss.

    Nutria may be misidentified as beavers or muskrats, especially when swimming, but the resemblances are superficial.

    https://icwdm.org/species/rodents/nutria/#:~:text=They%20are%20members%20of%20the,Argentine%20beaver%2C%20and%20swamp%20beaver

    🌠 The more you know dot gif 🌠

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