Animal Sightings

Today I saw what, after some light Internet searching, I am pretty sure was a mourning dove. But since I don't know anything about birds, the only thing I thought when I saw it was "Damn, that's a beautiful pigeon".

 

Doves and Pigeons are actually the same bird family, actually, with individual species' label as 'dove' or 'pigeon' being a largely arbitrary distinction, so by some definitions you weren't wrong!

 

In addition, white wedding doves are the same species as city pigeons: the domesticated pigeon!

 

Saw a hedgehog on my dawn walk today! I've seen evidence of them around so I knew they still existed in our area but this was the first time I'd seen one in person in years!

 

an handsome lad

 

a midnight visitor, at last caught on camera!

 

HEDGEH OG!!

 

necroing this thread to dump the photographic results of me going to the county show today with my mum.
Behold, 400-some photos of cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys, pigeons, and a few horses

 

thebest kind of necromancy.

 

Making me miss my own local country fair, its been nixed by Covid last few years. I really hope it comes back next year :(

 

Saw a frog in my garden just now!

 

I’m visiting my grandma in Oregon, so I get to see my cousin Koko!

Behold…a Man

 

on the walk back from university i saw someone's pet cat! grey soft kitty that wanted to be petted (with a back-and-forth motion - the cat's owners informed me of how this cat liked to be petted so i could pet it better) and flopped so much when being petted that its human had to support it to stop it falling off the fence

a very purry cat

 

fuckign kity

 

the university kereru was hanging out by the library today!

(i say "university kereru" as in "a kereru that has decided it lives on university grounds", i think there might be more than one university kereru.)

 

I saw a salamander last night (quick research says Oregon ensatina) while hiking to a cove to play with bioluminescent plankton.

 

I got to pet a dog at work today. Her name was Sadie and she really wanted pizza

 

Some guys came over to do some junk hauling for us and they brought this good boi along for backup!! His name is Diesel, 13/10 model employee who I would recommend for a promotion without hesitation

 

I met a bunny at the park and helped her human wrangle her.

Spoiler: fuckign BNUUY

 

The first of this years fawns have shown up in my garden. Which means time to cover everything in netting. There were also rabbits, squirrels, and a large and colorful assortment of birds after I put the feeders out. I even added a new bird to my life list (Bullock's oriole).