# 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:** 15
**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 21, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/281 "2020-10-21T02:28:39Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > What on earth are they eating? The remains of a mushroom. [https://imgur.com/a/Z8et07d](https://imgur.com/a/Z8et07d) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/282 "2020-10-21T10:41:30Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > @Treppenwitz, **I really think England must be the best place on earth**. No doubt in my mind that it was a magic robin, and you were chosen for something. Oh! I know! He was probably trying to show you the key to the secret garden! My bolding: the grass is always greener… What I didn’t get round to posting on Sunday was that there was a huge brawl - sweet as robins are, they’re vicious little bastards between themselves. The brawl (between two birds) started on my allotment and then spilled into adjacent allotments - you know that movie trope, usually in westerns, where a fist fight starts in a bar and then the belligerents crash through doors into another bar and so on? (I think there’s one in The Quiet Man.) It was oddly like that. I was digging so there were plenty of worms, but nobody was interested in food - purely territorial I guess. And my assistant yesterday must have been the winner. j ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/283 "2020-10-30T14:28:28Z")
Florida Glass Snake. Secretive legless lizard that is probably a refugee from Hurricane Sally trying to get back to the forest floor litter. This is a first! [![](https://i.imgur.com/Cipp9wi.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Cipp9wi.jpg) ---
**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 30, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/284 "2020-10-30T14:31:19Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those. I would have thought it was a snake. How did you identify it? ---
**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 30, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/285 "2020-10-30T14:32:43Z")
As I migrated my way towards my car in the predawn darkness, I saw a little bunny scurry across the lawn and into the darkness. Does anyone know how to make Hasenpfeffer? ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/286 "2020-10-30T15:15:31Z")
It’s odd but I just looked at it and thought “that’s a glass snake”. A very long time ago I was a zoology major at SF City college. I guess the images stick with you. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/287 "2020-10-30T15:27:43Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > I guess the images stick with you The head/neck is totally not snake like. Other than being a long, skinny animal without legs, it looks nothing like a snake. ---
**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 30, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/288 "2020-10-30T15:30:28Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those. I would have thought it was a snake. How did you identify it? Biggest clue is the shape of the head and that ears and eyelids. Snakes don’t have those. * * * This morning getting the paper, I saw the red fox that lives in the wooded area across the street and heard the coyotes. I hope Reynard is careful and avoids them. ---
**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 30, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/289 "2020-10-30T15:36:24Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > As I migrated my way towards my car in the predawn darkness, I saw a little bunny scurry across the lawn and into the darkness. Does anyone know how to make Hasenpfeffer? Why don’t you make Welsh Rabbit instead; no bunnies are harmed. ---
**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 30, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/290 "2020-10-30T16:56:38Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Why don’t you make Welsh Rabbit instead; no bunnies are harmed. Uh … … Maybe it’s me, but it just seems like a glorified sauce soaked slice of bread! 😳 Excuse me a moment … Here, bunny, bunny; Jasmine won’t hurt you! 😈 ---
**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 30, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/291 "2020-10-30T18:30:11Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Excuse me a moment … > > Here, bunny, bunny; Jasmine won’t hurt you! 😈 [Oh, NOW you’ve done it!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_caJjIRC-Q) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/292 "2020-10-30T21:18:16Z")
I tried making Welsh Rabbit after learning about it on this board. The results were… Less good than hoped. Judging by the constituent parts, it should have been better, so I blame clueless preparation on my part. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/293 "2020-10-30T23:57:23Z")
My sister [NE Florida] has a white [leucistic] squirrel regularly coming onto her patio and begging at the back sliding door. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/294 "2020-10-31T01:32:47Z")
Wild horses, kicking up enough dust to choke a coal miner, out behind my house. Dirty! Degrading! ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/295 "2020-10-31T01:49:48Z")
There has been a golden-crowned kinglet flitting around in the backyard trees for the last few days. I assume on her/his way back south. I’m in central Ohio. ---
**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 31, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/296 "2020-10-31T01:51:26Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Wild horses, kicking up enough dust to choke a coal miner, out behind my house. … couldn’t drag me away… Sorry, wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/297 "2020-10-31T02:05:04Z")
I’ve missed you, Burpo. Glad to know you are still in Drag. Mazel Hoopla! ---
**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 31, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/298 "2020-10-31T02:08:08Z")
🖖 ---
**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:** [November 2, 2020, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/299 "2020-11-02T12:40:34Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Oh, NOW you’ve done it! Hasenpfeffer for everybody! 😳 ---
**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:** [November 4, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/300 "2020-11-04T21:52:46Z")
A [25-centipede](https://youtu.be/SwV_63Iyttg). I see hundreds of millipedes from at least three or four species, but so far have seen only three centipedes in the recent months that I’ve been photographing/videoing leaf litter denizens–and they never want to pose for a photograph. This one–a lot larger than the other two–I had seen several days ago and attempted to carefully capture it without me hurting it or it hurting me, but it disappeared. Last night was cold enough that I figured it would be sluggish if I could find it again, so I looked in the same spot and found it. (I know you people with desert centipedes the size of subway trains will scoff at this, but this is a big one for my area.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-Cwze1-BXF4/maxresdefault.jpg "Centipede") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cwze1-BXF4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=16)