National
Wildlife Day (Feb. 22nd & September 4th) founded in 2005 by animal
behaviorist and philanthropist Colleen Paige, serves to bring awareness
of endangered animals nationally as well as globally, that need to be
preserved and rescued from their demise each year, but also to
acknowledge zoos and outstanding animal sanctuaries globally for
everything they do to help preserve this planet's animals and educate
the public about conservation - especially to children....our animal's
future caretakers and conservationists.
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As we live in the middle of nowhere we get to see LOADS of wildlife! When we look from the living room and up on the mountain acrss the highway, we have seen mountain sheep, elk and 2 kinds of deer (Mulies and white tails). Deer are everywhere!
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| Deer in our front yard |
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| Full moon rising |
In the above picture, Mom was trying to get a picture of the raccoons coming out of the juniper bushes.
Our wildlife is an important part of our lives here in our village. We are especially mindful of our bears. We are a Bear Smart Community and work hard to minimize the number of bears killed as a result of bear-human
conflicts, and to keep people and property safe as well. We do this by
helping people learn about bears, how to prevent human-bear conflicts
and live with bears, and how to become Bear Smart communities. Being
native to North America and on the landscape before humans, bears should
be able to travel, find natural foods and secure habitat, mate and
expand range, and connect with others.
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Do you guys have wildlife? And are you celebrating today?
oooh we remember the bear!!! we saw a deer today... we think that are magic animals...
ReplyDeleteour wild life consists of raccoons, possums, squirrels, and a ton of water birds, murders of crows at Walmart parking lot. we used to see otters at Bray Park where we walk Beau, but that was several years ago. I love the view of your street and the mountains. for some reason, when your headed appeared today, I laughed out loud, and then teared up. I love this post and had intended to do one on raccoons but LIFE is interfering. I have had to limit my time on the computer, due to bob's health issues. yesterday, Beau fell getting on the sofa, which is part of life when all 3 of us are in our 80's..
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ReplyDeleteBeing out and about in my van I am getting to see wildlife again - although I did see quite a bit from the Hutch's windows, too (mostly on the wing, but there were deer on the road one night!) I love that you have a community that wants to live with and not against the pre-existing residents! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Marv, we think the bear and wolves might be too much fur us! We got a groundhog that has eaten most of Lynn's apples that the deer and squirrel have missed. We git a turkey once in a while and a fox. Mostly birdies. We like to see Nutmeg looking professorish with glasses.
ReplyDeleteHere's a holiday that slipped past us, but it's on our calendar now!
ReplyDeleteWe keep the groundhog family stocked with greenery, and have many squirrels enjoying our trees.
As for the butterflies, bees, and other insects...there seem to be many of them too.
We live on a large property (5 acres) and are surrounded by lots of woods. Our property is home to fox, deer and lot of smaller wild life. The past two mornings we've woken up to a view of our small deer herd nibbling at the plants that grow at the edge of our woods.
ReplyDeleteWe have a variety of wildlife here and most are welcome, but coyotes are not.
ReplyDeletehey marv, we like your noo header today. we haz coyotes, turkeyz and turkey vultures, bobcats, bun bunz, beaverz and big berdz like blue heronz an egritz, oh and we haz a big owl who likez to sit in the top of the tall, tall redwood tree in owr back naybors yard and he who, whoz hiz who, whoz and we can hear himz eben iffen dee winderz are closed.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, we have lots of wildlife like opossums and raccoons and roadrunners and quail and ground squirrels and bunnies, but I guess our main wildlife would be coyotes. In particular, we have an old coyote who has been coming around lately to eat unripe figs, persimmons, and peach-type fruit off our trees on the hill."
ReplyDeleteLulu: "We had some words for him but our Dada made us stop and brought us inside so the coyote could forage in peace. Something about how we get regular meals and we don't need to make life harder for a little old man coyote who is just looking for fruit."
Java Bean: "Blah blah blah. I still want to bark at him."
Nut Case er Nutmeg likes to bark at ALL the wildlife! Mom is always telling her to be quiet too!
DeleteThere is a mama bear with 4 cubs in our area. We have a lot of deer and turkeys too. I have never seen a wolf, but do hear coyotes. XO
ReplyDeleteYou do have a lot of wildlife! We get a lot of deer here and they roam in large herds.
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant idea, being Bear Smart! We don't have bears near us, but if we did, I would want to know how to protect them and us both.
ReplyDeleteWe have birds of many kinds, 'possums, raccoons, squirrels, nutria, skunks and coyotes. If you drive further out, there are deer and I'm sure other creatures, too. Oh, and the lizards, alligators, frogs, plenty of those are around. Alligators, if you stay away from them, are not a problem. We aren't their natural prey and unless they get scared of you, they generally leave people alone. Pets are another story, unfortunately.
We didn't do any special post, but for living in the city, we get amazing wildlife...some we like better than others. We wish the skunks would stay away. We also get deer, raccoons, ground hogs, chipmunks, squirrels, possom. The kitties dad recently rescued two abandoned baby squirrels. We are very happy we don't have coyote or foxes. Since none of us go outside except for the catio, we don't worry too much about the wildlife. XOCK, angels Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta & Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer, Kizmet, Audrey & Raleigh
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