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In my parts, that is usually a leopard frog with a garter snake latched on to it. Since the leopard frog never makes that noise otherwise, I surmise that the frog's strategy is to call a warm-bloded predator to spoil the snake's dinner. It's not surprising for your rabbit, but I find it amazing that a frog could evolve to call a predator to get it out of trouble.

But did ya tell your old buddy JHAP, nooooo!

Last time up at my property I turned over a tarp and found a nice scorpion, 18 or 19 inches long at least, or perhaps it just seemed that large with my heightened state of cowardess.

We do have a resident fox that is a tough little fellow. Stands his ground with a lot of attitude. Bears and cougars have been spotted on my place but not any by me.

Nothing particularly exotic like Rad though.

look anything like this bobad?.........


this one werent callin out nothin

taken on my driveway above pond.

Haa! Posted with in seconds each other. Hello Dave!

ewest,
We have cobras, kraits, sea snakes and a whole slew of different models of pit vipers.
We have killed two blue coral snakes in the house, and a pair mangrove pit vipers made a nest and tried to raise a family next to the house. We found three babies and boy were they mad, as soon as they saw me they started hissing and striking.
I have been swimming many times and never seen a sea snake.

We don't really have any unusual critters in our zone, but during a visit to southwestern Minnesota, we encountered this beast raiding a nest of Limed Coronas...
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You guys make me real glad I live in WV! Except for a few copperheads and timber rattlers, I can't think of many critters that really could make life scary or unsafe -- except maybe humans.


Southern Flying Squirrel

Edit: (Brettski -- I think we posted at the same time. It is a good feeling to live where the critters are like yours and mine.)

Now we know why Life is Good on Bremer Pond!

ROFLOL !! B'ski that is almost as good as the stooges. Badger - Badger - Badger ---- snake.

Exactly! Substitute my western ribbon for your red sided, of course. If that was a leopard frog in my area, it would be bleating and screaming bloody nurder.

Excellent....Rad's critters are just that. I like the armadillo and possum also. Catmandoo, we are used to living among large predators, I do spend a lot of time in the back woods but take certain precautions, as a minimum I carry pepper spray and bear bangers, defender 12 guage if we are tenting out. I forgot to mention, I also have a couple of bush weasels.

Cute weasels, Wood.

In the process of stripping out a car right now. So far I have killed 8 brown recluse spiders and I am only halfway done. These things are very common here and we catch them on glue traps in the house. The exterminator sprays twice a year but admits that pesticide has little effect on them as they don't drag their body as they walk. Every once in a while I will go through my spare plywood stock and kill a dozen easily.

BTW the armadillos have made it as far north as St. Louis. I seen on 10 years ago and no one believed me. Recently though the local paper has shown pics of a few hit on the road so now nobody doubts my sighting.

Hey Wood, the weasels are growing nicely. Looks like you have been feeding and fertilizing.

We've been amazed at the wildlife we've photographed on our place since building three years ago - partly because we are just three miles out of the city limits but it seems so remote! Let's see... bobwhite quail, pheasant, bobcat, deer, turkey, coyotes, morning dove, coons, possums, roadrunners, armadillos (GRRR), skunks, and way too many cottontail rabbits, tons of birds and snakes and frogs...OH - and then there is DHs wild "pet" squirrel named Sissy.

(Gonna try to post a few pics - not sure if this is how to do it...and I can't find my bobcat picture. I'll keep looking!)

up here in IL we have deer, deer, o and more deer. but the coyote packs have gotten a lot larger and actually are pretty agressive they took a few of our cats which made my mom learn how to use the 22. The bucks get big up here though. we also have our nice turkey flocks the bald eagles in the winter, the turkey vultures, the hawks and all those ground animals rabbits squirrels etc. but i did see a bob cat a couple of years back no one believed me but i am certain of it

Love that road runner.

The cat has been cornered by a flock of turkeys and wants inside.

That's a great animal GW. They're getting scarce.

I was attacked by a green bean.

I guess I have just about everything but bears. No mountain lion stories for the last 10 years. My wife did see a huge bobcat a couple of weeks ago about 50 ft. from our front window. It was 3:00 in the afternoon. She got really excited.

Last year I did see something odd. It looked exactly like a whitetail buck but had axis type spots. It did not have axis antlers. I talked to another guy who said that my report was the third he had heard about over a 20 mile area. He also said that he had talked to the Game Warden and was told that they couldn't/wouldn't cross breed. I guess it could've been a whitetail with an odd gene trait but I've never seen anything like it.

We do have some game ranches around. Last year, some kind of exotic antelope was in my pastures. It looked like a Texas antelope but had long, thick, spiraling, horns. I saw it 3 times. I'm a long way from antelope country. A neighbor saw it once. He wanted to shoot and mount it. I couldn't see the point in doing that. Haven't seen it since and he didn't shoot it.

we've had four really interesting sitings in the past week. a week ago, my wife was looking down over the hill from our driveway and saw an adult cougar sitting on his hind legs with his front legs straight (like house cats do, kinda like a sphynx). she said it blended in so well, she thought at first it was just a clump of grass, she turned her head for a minute, and when she looked back, it was gone.

three days ago, i saw probably the same cat across my property stalking a fawn or jack rabbit, i couldnt tell the prey, it ran too fast into the trees, then i saw the cougar slinking low through the grass approaching the area the prey ran into. from across the canyon, it heard me walking on the driveway, turned and looked, then took off into the woods.

day before yesterday, my wife (with binoculars in hand), looking into the same spot she saw the cougar, saw an adult bobcat carrying an adult rattlesnake in its mouth. the bobcat was unaware of her presence, and she got a fantastic long look at this....but not long enough to get the camera, it was gone when she came back out w/ camera.

last night before retiring to bed, i was outside infront of garage. have you ever seen a domestic cat get into that crazed rage and race around? in the darkness below our driveway i heard something dashing around and then jumping onto a pine and climbing about 10 feet up into....then it kind of grunted and yowled twice, i grabbed the flashlight, and just caught the bobcat descending from the tree and tearing off into the woods.....all this while taking in some nice meteors last night (persyiad (sp?) meteor shower).

Dang Dave, you have a regular wild kingdom going on there!

Consider yourself reprimanded for not carrying around a camera.

With all your cougar sightings I think that you must have a den or cougar condo or something on your property.

I have a squirrel with an attitude at my place, does that count? (and before anyone says it I was not referring to myself).