# Today in nature I saw **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854 "2020-07-20T18:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/221 "2020-10-05T00:43:08Z")
A giant-ass planarian. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b9Y1L6uRMRc/hqdefault.jpg "Huge planarian, probably Bipalium kewense") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Y1L6uRMRc) ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/222 "2020-10-05T01:26:23Z")
Armadillo today! I don’t see a live one more often than every year or two, so that was very special. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/223 "2020-10-05T01:59:12Z")
We have a bumper crop of rabbits this year. We think they are living in the culvert at the end of the driveway, which doesn’t seem all that hospitable a place, but there’s evidence of rabbits there. And they’re apparently determined to reproduce until the really cold weather hits, because we just accidently scared a little bun out of its hidey hole while doing yardwork a few days ago. [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Bnm4PjS6sKw5O3TVdzQNUpfVMQtse3d-M4Rtm0u5rvcOMzcWr4LbSySRZjhgxLWzQfcb4DPVks-zBtcs8wtcliJK58YTEwGC-ne2DT0ohAp_eGNUqG0ApZYslR5SJaZ0AeMVXCkBMQg=w600-h315-p-k "New item by Romansperson") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/jYwVXeuozBbKA4Wb6) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/224 "2020-10-05T12:14:18Z")
Oh, what a precious little bun! From yesterday, morning glories with bonus pony 🙂 [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50422776131_841c6e90a7_b.jpg "Perry 100420") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/50422776131/) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/225 "2020-10-05T13:36:05Z")
^ ::nicker:: Hello! I’m Mister Ed! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/226 "2020-10-05T13:47:53Z")
W-i-i-i-lbur! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/227 "2020-10-05T13:59:51Z")
HUGE shelf fungus on a silver maple down the street. Gotta look it up to see if I can identify it. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/228 "2020-10-05T14:36:17Z")
I call them “buns” too! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/229 "2020-10-05T15:16:40Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > Armadillo today! I don’t see a live one more often than every year or two, so that was very special. Someone who’d just moved to Texas asked me, “Do you have any live armadillos, or do you just move the dead ones around?” 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/230 "2020-10-05T16:19:03Z")
Getting out in “nature” (or, you know, at all) has been a crapshoot for months now due to the wildfires/shit air quality in my area. But did get some decent (not spectacular, just decent) shots of a Spotted Towhee yesterday. They’re both common and usually not that intrinsically difficult to shoot, especially for males in the breeding season. But for some reason something always seems to go wrong every time I get one lined up. I felt kinda cheered these came out alright. Next, I need a Green-Tailed Towhee (NOT common in my area). ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/231 "2020-10-05T16:36:19Z")
… a juvenile roach scurrying across my desk at work. 🤢 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/232 "2020-10-06T21:29:09Z")
Went to a nearby park this afternoon. Saw several chipmunks, squirrels of various colors (I think the melanistic fox squirrels are more numerous than the standard fur) plus both downy & red bellied woodpeckers. Numerous chickadee-dee-dees, some mallards, and a band of wild turkeys rounded out today’s sightings. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/233 "2020-10-07T00:33:59Z")
I don’t know about this “nature” stuff you guys are seeing. Since I’ve been locked inside all these months, all I see is my cat and a few flies. Oh, and a baby deer that its mama had left on our front lawn for a couple days. But she came back and picked it up. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/234 "2020-10-07T00:36:44Z")
Fat Rattlesnake. I didn’t call him that to his face. [Fat timber rattler](https://i.imgur.com/5K0BvAt.jpg) (How do you post a picture?) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/235 "2020-10-07T12:51:20Z")
Ugh, I hate running across those things! I post pictures by uploading them to Flickr, then copy and paste the link here. If you put the link on a line by itself, it will show the picture in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/236 "2020-10-07T14:11:50Z")
I was feeding my little chipmunk, Chippy, by hand the other evening. I love feeling his little feet in my hand! Sometimes, I just call, “here, Chippy” and he comes running. I know, “Chippy” isn’t very imaginative but waaaaay back when I was a little kid, we always had a chipmunk at the cabin that would eat out of our hands and he was always named Chippy. In fact I think that tradition started when my dad was a kid. So we had Chippy’s for 40 years. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/237 "2020-10-07T14:14:33Z")
Are you serious? That is so cool! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/238 "2020-10-07T15:27:37Z")
Test [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/5K0BvAt.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/5K0BvAt) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/239 "2020-10-07T16:50:19Z")
Testing with the Champion Of Hummerdome. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50432685587_61ec9dd59c_h.jpg "Maus Magill has shared 1 photo with you!") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/190534151@N04/shares/iE83JE) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/240 "2020-10-07T17:15:06Z")
A couple of days ago we walked through a local arboretum. I heard a chirping sound that I had often heard in my backyard. I always assumed it was a birdcall. This time, the sound was near me, so I looked carefully, and realized it was a chipmunk! It was the 3d - chuck - sound in [this vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESJaPmfbius). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=13)