Wildlife Around Our House
We see a lot of wildlife on our property and on the Falls Lake property adjacent to ours. Once in a while I am lucky enough to capture a very small portion of it with my camera (not very clearly).
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Pileated Woodpecker Pileated Woodpeckers are fairly rare and we almost always see them in pairs (or multiple pairs of pairs!) |
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Red-Headed Woodpecker Red-Headed Woodpeckers are hard to capture with the camera and the pictures do not do justice to the brilliant colors. |
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Red-Tailed Hawk There seems to be a hawk nest fairly close by, and our abundance of squirrels seem to keep the hawks well-fed. |
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Turkey The turkeys around here are very skittish around people, but we have seen anywhere from one to a group of eight. |
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Hoot Owl (Barred Owl) Owls are really neat - usually we see them flying through the trees. I don't know how they fly so well through the trees without hitting branches - they seem so huge. I've also seen them catching grasshoppers and mice in our front yard. |
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Bird Feeder We have a couple bird feeders around the house. Frequent visitors include cardinals, goldfinches, and of course, squirrels and even raccoons. |
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White-Tailed Deer And of course we have tons of deer. |