The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: boating and sailing

[Five_Inch_Heels]

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I've got these things growing wild. Custom made for Hummers. Wasps and bees can't get into them easily.

 

[Statius]

We have adorable cicada killers. They kinda blunder about. They are massive, but totally harmless unless you happen to be a cicada.

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Neither my hand nor my deck BTW.

Damn. Harmless or not, no thanks!

 

[Statius]

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I've got these things growing wild. Custom made for Hummers. Wasps and bees can't get into them easily.

Nice! What are they?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Damn. Harmless or not, no thanks!

The males are said to be inquisitive, they are actually very sweet insects.

 

[StillStunned]

The males are said to be inquisitive, they are actually very sweet insects.

I've tried the "inquisitive" excuse, but I was still called a creep.

 

[Statius]

The males are said to be inquisitive, they are actually very sweet insects.

I'm inquisitive about many things, but not so much with bugs. But then there's bats- don't mind my ADHD tangent here. Bats, freak me out but cool at the same time, kinda like some bugs I guess? At least bats eat bugs though. Most bats, not all bats. Ok STFU. HA!

 

[Statius]

Hmmmm... Thumbing up my post? Or my telling myself to STFU?.

 

[iwatchus]

Hmmmm... Thumbing up my post? Or my telling myself to STFU?.

I was reacting to the obsession with bats, but now that you mention it ...

 

[Statius]

I was reacting to the obsession with bats, but now that you mention it ...

. I'm full of it today. Not sure why. Maybe tired, slap happy I think

 

[ChazRhys]

I have coyotes running in the green belt behind my apartment, and a mated pair of turkey buzzards nesting in the erosion control pond below my window. Did you know buzzards mate for life? I look it up on the internet, so it must be true.

 

[Statius]

Coyote! Had one in our small patch of woods in '20. The dog was not happy.

 

[ChazRhys]

Coyote! Had one in our small patch of woods in '20. The dog was not happy.

There's a whole pack of them. It's kind of cool when they yip and cry at the full moon.

 

[Statius]

There's a whole pack of them. It's kind of cool when they yip and cry at the full moon.

Heard that in Arizona once. It was pretty awesome

 

[NuclearFairy]

We had a pack of coyotes in our woods once. And then wolf guy started breeding his wolf-dog hybrids and we stopped hearing the coyotes. I wonder if there was any correlational.

 

[Statius]

We had a pack of coyotes in our woods once. And then wolf guy started breeding his wolf-dog hybrids and we stopped hearing the coyotes. I wonder if there was any correlational.

Oof. That's... wow. Hopefully it was just the scent

 

[NuclearFairy]

Oof. That's... wow. Hopefully it was just the scent

Well, he didn't seem to believe in bathing his dogs, or keeping them properly locked up. My MIL lost more chickens to the wolf-dogs than she ever did to the rest of the wildlife combined.

 

[EmilyMiller]

We have beavers, my SO told me he saw one and I assumed it was a groundhog; he’s a city boy. But no, I later saw one when with him.

There are some in a local preserve lake, but we now have them in our hood as well.

We are meant to have some coyotes, but I’ve never seen one.

 

[StillStunned]

We have beavers,

I saw a beaver this morning!

But then my wife chased me out of the bathroom.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I saw a beaver this morning!

But then my wife chased me out of the bathroom.

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[StillStunned]

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Hey, that's the exact same look my wife gave me too!

 

[Statius]

We have beavers, my SO told me he saw one and I assumed it was a groundhog; he’s a city boy. But no, I later saw one when with him.

There are some in a local preserve lake, but we now have them in our hood as well.

We are meant to have some coyotes, but I’ve never seen one.

That's awesome! Seen 2 my entire life in the wild!

 

[Statius]

Well, he didn't seem to believe in bathing his dogs, or keeping them properly locked up. My MIL lost more chickens to the wolf-dogs than she ever did to the rest of the wildlife combined.

Poor chickens

 

[Statius]

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[iwatchus]

Twice in the last 5 years, we have had a family of fishers rearing their pups in our back yard. Early in the spring, we could see them in the woods from out kitchen table. Then the foliage got too thick. After each time, we had no squirrels for two years. Apparently takes about two years to repopulate.

For anyone who doesn't know what a fisher is, it's roughly a half-scale wolverine.

 

[Bamagan]

How about a turtle picture?
Red-eared slider.

Turtle power!

Edit: While these are relatively native to my area, they're a popular pet species and have become invasive in many places because of pet releases or losses. They do not generally become ninjas, though.