# 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:** 124
**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:** [June 27, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2463 "2023-06-27T19:44:50Z")
We have more wren babies! ---
**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:** [June 27, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2464 "2023-06-27T19:45:35Z")
nm, sorry. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2465 "2023-06-28T20:06:48Z")
Today nature is weird. Behold wolf’s milk slime mold (click for full pic): [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AJFCJaUNgtISHir4ltf4TKWSF0tl8C9XP6t63RrU8_5Kp719Xy21VY9pjHc3VbD9jNK_PiL5hgoRQWmLLN15yahIirnhiwV2Gj66kDredOFZzyrKPxTWOhkA=w600-h315-p-k "New item by Romansperson") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/rMZHCEZVgsW2PNK56) ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2466 "2023-06-28T21:25:31Z")
I was out with CtE for our daily walk and I saw so many cardinals and blue jays. I’m afraid of birds, but them flying with their wings out, disappearing into the trees, made my heart really happy today. I wanted to get pictures, but I’m too darn slow. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2467 "2023-06-29T00:39:00Z")
We didn’t get to see much nature today because of heavy smoke. But about shortly before I left work to head for home the sun appeared and the heavy pall started to lift. When I went out to my car, I heard a couple of birds singing away like it was early morning and they were about to start looking for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2468 "2023-06-29T11:09:59Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/1kNyyuK.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/1kNyyuK.jpg) Relocation project. Every few years raccoons move into our barn, partying all night and being generally destructive. I’ll catch and relocate for a few weeks (with permission of the Commonwealth) and then we’ll be good again. Anyone know what bait I use? It catches raccoons and not possums (who we coexist with peacefully). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2469 "2023-06-29T12:13:36Z")
Nature fun fact: \>97% of all raccoons go by “Rocky”. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2470 "2023-06-29T12:38:50Z")
Oh what a cutie! As for bait…fish? We’ve got rats in the barn currently. I’ve been feeding the chickens morning and night instead of leaving the feeder out all the time, and I’ve got a humane bucket trap out there baited with peanut butter, but no luck yet. The game camera shows them climbing all over it and laughing. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2471 "2023-06-29T12:43:28Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > As for bait…fish? No! Everything eats fish. Raccoons _love_ marshmallows. I have old, dried out, jumbo marshmallows and only the raccoons go for them. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2472 "2023-06-29T14:18:50Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Behold wolf’s milk slime mold OMG! I was just going to send in a pic of my Dog Vomit Slime!! We have a giant pile of mulch from a big red pine that fell this spring during a wind storm. One day I noticed a big yellow splotch of something on it. I went closer and touched it. A yellow powdery substance came off of it. I Googled - soft yellow fungus in MN. And there it was, Dog Vomit Slime! It’s also called Scrambled Egg Slime. It really does look like both. After about a month it turned black-ish. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2473 "2023-06-29T14:58:48Z")
A couple years ago we had stinkhorn mushrooms in our yard. Very cool fungus that stinks and attracts flies that help spread the organism. > [@Today in nature I saw](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/762): > > In our yard this morning we saw a patch of stinkhorn mushrooms! Pretty cool phallic shaped fungi that smell bad and attract flies, which help spread their spores. [[image] ](https://i.imgur.com/a4Z1EFQ.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2474 "2023-06-29T16:26:44Z")
Fox and kit via my doorbell cam ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2475 "2023-06-29T16:34:03Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Fox and kit via my doorbell cam Aha! They were hunting in daytime to raise a new family 🙂. Great capture. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2476 "2023-06-30T16:03:03Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/bOCcpWh.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/bOCcpWh.jpg) On the way to work this morning I had to wait for Canada Geese at our friend’s house. This was the third of three groups that crossed. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2477 "2023-06-30T16:17:18Z")
Nice! We don’t have Canada geese down here so I’m always thrilled if I see them when we travel. A couple of sandhill cranes in the neighbor’s cow pasture. We frequently see this pair. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53013274370_8bc68b5a13_b.jpg "Cranes") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/53013274370/) ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2478 "2023-06-30T22:49:38Z")
It’s funny how one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, because, as much as I enjoy wildlife viewing, if I never saw another Canada goose again, I’d be fine with that. But I’d love to watch those cranes. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2479 "2023-06-30T23:22:54Z")
Canada geese are very common around here, and ruin just about any open green space with their poop. I don’t like ‘em. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2480 "2023-07-01T01:29:23Z")
About twenty five years ago four Canada geese showed up at the pond that’s part of a big cemetery in town. We all thought it was neat, and they even got a picture in the paper. Now so many have joined them folks are likely to say “@#$%^& geese!” And they mess everything up with their poop. The groundspeople hate them. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2481 "2023-07-01T01:35:42Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > if I never saw another Canada goose again, I’d be fine with that. > > But I’d love to watch those cranes. Oh, geez, I’m lucky to get some of each. I stay away from the places that have lots of Canada geese. They shit everywhere and it makes the grass slippery and gross. The cranes have the good sense to not overcrowd the local lakes and swamps. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/2482 "2023-07-01T01:48:53Z")
IIRC, a few years back Minneapolis, overrun by Canada geese, killed a lot of them and then donated the meat to local homeless shelters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=125)