Some of the wildlife in my backyard... (pics) (video)

[UNCjigga]

Thought I'd grab a few pics of some of the critters I see every week when I mow the lawn. I also need help with identifying a plant (possibly poison ivy), a shroom, and a snake.

toad/froggie thing
if this is a termite mound, what the hell is the hole for??
shroom (sorry for the bad res...i resized it using some microsoft crap by mistake)
is this poison ivy?
it looks and moves like a snake, but it has feet!
What time is it Mr. Wolf? Time for a stompin'...
hmm, what's hiding in the tree?
what kind of snake is this?

I'm also going through some video my dad took of elusive nocturnal flying squirrels in our backyard...gonna post the clips as soon as they're compressed

EDIT: Finally here's the flying squirrel video

Sorry bout the time it took...I'm new to this whole 'firewire' thing and I've never used Windows Movie Maker before. Actually quite easy once you get the hang of it!

Right click/save as please. And please don't bitch about me using wmv (that means you NotFred)...I couldn't figure out how to have WMM save to Divx directly...

 

[Zim Hosein]

uncJIGGA, you backyard scares me

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
uncJIGGA, you backyard scares me

My cousins' backyard in Raleigh scares me. They have copperheads comin' up from the creekbed there. We don't have poisonous snakes in western NC.

 

[notfred]

That's definetly a toad and not a frog. The snakish-looking lizard looks to be a skink of some type.

Don't know what kind of snake that is.

 

[atom]

Heh, I think it's kinda cool you get all this wildlife in your backyard. My backyard has hummingbirds and ladybugs, thats about it.

The pic of the plant is not that good, but it kinda resembles poison ivy.

 

[isekii]

Im glad I live in Northern NJ.

The only thing we need to worry about is drivers from PA and NY occasionaly few from NC that drive as slow as they look.

The other day this one couple in a Chevy Caprice from NC stopped in the middle of a 4way interseciton letting out his wife, so she can go to a store that was right around the corner.
They got the horn + the birds from everyone behind them lol.

 

[chiwawa626]

Wow im glad we don't have "critters" out here in cali

 

[Josh]

Good ol' Jersey...all I see is mosquitoes, flies and sometimes bees.

 

[MrCoffee]

Our cat caught a skink inside our house - in cali. We also get the occasional possum, and have seen jack rabbits too.

 

[cressida]

how big is your backyard?

 

[tcsenter]

Your little slithery friend is either a juvenile black rat snake or black racer. Hard to tell from the photo. Cute little guy, idnt he?

 

[tcsenter]

My cousins' backyard in Raleigh scares me. They have copperheads comin' up from the creekbed there. We don't have poisonous snakes in western NC.

Huh? You have Copperheads state-wide and Timber Rattlesnakes in all but central North Carolina, particularly in East and West NC. North Carolina is the #1 state for venomous snake bites.

You also have Black Widows and Brown Recluse spiders state wide.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Wow im glad we don't have "critters" out here in cali

What do you mean? Within 500 yards of my apartment I've seen great horned owls, red tail hawks, about a million kinds of small birds, plus ducks and geese. Of course there's squirrels, I've seen raccoons... there's plenty of frogs, a few snakes, lots of lizards. I wouldn't be surprised if there are deer, but I haven't seen one yet.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Wow im glad we don't have "critters" out here in cali

What do you mean? Within 500 yards of my apartment I've seen great horned owls, red tail hawks, about a million kinds of small birds, plus ducks and geese. Of course there's squirrels, I've seen raccoons... there's plenty of frogs, a few snakes, lots of lizards. I wouldn't be surprised if there are deer, but I haven't seen one yet.

*chuckle*

Yeah, it's funny how some people basically have .. never gone outside. All I did as a kid was catch critters, lol.. so I seem to be pretty aware of their presence..

 

[UNCjigga]

Bump for video...

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
if this is a termite mound, what the hell is the hole for??

Did you try sticking your dick in there?

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: glugglug

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
if this is a termite mound, what the hell is the hole for??

Did you try sticking your dick in there?

LOL...you just reminded me of a kid at UNC we all called 'treefvcker'...but to answer your question no I haven't tried that.

Seriously though, I think its either a snake that made that hole or a really big spider...

 

[MikeMike]

we have about 8 bunnies, a few deer, some groundhogs, racoons, birds, cats, anything up here

MIKE

 

[Wallydraigle]

The plant isn't poison ivy. It actually looks like a young hickory tree. The leaves change shape a little bit as it ages.

 

[Excelsior]

I used to have those mound/hole things too back at my hold house. If only I could remember what they are..

 

[TonyG]

To me that hole looks like a crawdad hole. Do you live around/near water? It's hard to tell but it almost looks like the hole is filled with water in the picture.

 

[Excelsior]

TonyG - Yes! I used to have crawdads all around my creek.

EDIT: Googled for your convenience.

 

[notfred]

There wasn't very much flying in that "flying squirrel" video.

 

[SSP]

whoa... I'll stick with our polar bears and SARS.

 

[jessieqwert]

Cool pix, Hope you don't mind me postin a pic as well...
This is of a snapping turtle in a quarry in my woods....
Pic is a video stills from a D8 so quality suffers....

snapper