# 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:** 164
**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:** [July 22, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3264 "2024-07-22T01:47:05Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > We were eating outside at Shoreham Airport cafe today. One unwary family group got raided and retreated indoors; shortly afterwards there was another swoop, but this time the fella stood up and took a swing. He missed. I have to say, impressively agile, seagulls, even if I despise them. > > j Geez, all we have to worry about here is getting pooped on when we’re eating outside. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3265 "2024-07-22T02:14:08Z")
Dinner time for all creatures. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3266 "2024-07-22T06:16:33Z")
Awwww… ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3267 "2024-07-22T22:26:28Z")
The birds and the bees: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/1Ocp5im.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/1Ocp5im) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3268 "2024-07-23T17:30:17Z")
Female long horn sheep, Lake Minnewanka, Alberta. (click to see full image) [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczOs5BxB8fvd9V9_WeUDELJX9d0zt--lE1PGN3sM9US5rLnqURhvyJKNhid7DuVUSi12-9laDrrreapjc4c87ovyzzp33UHmg1UwfLE5aor8M1Q8aDk2=w517-h315-p-k "New item by James Hyder") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/GBKsWxd8n8icCLPZ9) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3269 "2024-07-23T18:07:49Z")
Cool! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3270 "2024-07-23T18:56:52Z")
A chicken alongside a highway. It turned around and headed back toward the farm’s fence. As my husband put it, “Why didn’t the chicken cross the road?” (My theory: Too much traffic.) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3271 "2024-07-23T21:18:12Z")
Hope you folks don’t mind me spamming with Hummingbird photos. I set up my camera on a tripod looking out our window, and I’ve been trying to get some good photos of my bossy Rufous. Hard. They are really fast! [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/zyyL3zG.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/zyyL3zG) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/A4t0HhJ.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/A4t0HhJ) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/3gc8VLr.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/3gc8VLr) ---
**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:** [July 23, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3272 "2024-07-23T22:42:09Z")
Nice! ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3273 "2024-07-24T02:35:07Z")
Later we saw several dozen more, in clumps, there at that site, and along the roadside at several other places in the area. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3274 "2024-07-24T03:11:27Z")
Some Fibonacci Flower: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/lrTci73.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/lrTci73) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3275 "2024-07-24T14:21:42Z")
Mrs. L.A. just came in from the catio. She and Abbey saw a doe in the back yard. First deer that’s been observed visiting. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3276 "2024-07-25T00:34:37Z")
A pleasant surprise today (those have been rare lately for sure). For ages, we’ve had morning glories, moonflowers, trumpet vines and assorted viney whatnot self seed in the front and side gardens. They just grow; I planted none of them and I just try to control where they grow once they crop up from year to year. Last year, I grew some Black-Eyed Susan vine from seed inside. Once they were able to take outdoor temps, I planted them in the hanging baskets on our porch and let them do their thing. When freezing temperatures came, they died off and I took the baskets down and put other stuff up there for the winter. So imagine my surprise when among the viney stuff coming up this year, there’s a Black-Eyed Susan vine! It’s apparently joined its ilk in randomly growing here and there, and is the first thing to bloom among the vine crop this year. Yay nature! [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53879343486_fd47ed3f66_b.jpg "PXL\_20240724\_213145015") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/197666118@N08/53879343486/in/dateposted-public/) ---
**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:** [July 26, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3277 "2024-07-26T13:09:03Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > we’ve had morning glories, moonflowers, trumpet vines and assorted viney whatnot self seed in the front and side gardens. They just grow; I planted none of them IME trumpet vines can survive a minor apocalypse and morning glories are only slightly less fragile. But I’ve rarely had luck with moonflowers (which I adore!) from seed & certainly never had them reseed themselves, though I usually harvest some of the best pods the few times they _have_ grown for me, as backup. They just seemed more finicky to me, but that may refthe climate I was in at the time (north Dallas). * * * Oh, my contribution: about an hour ago, a robin was having a hissy fit in the big oak across the street, chirping that one single alarm note incessantly. Went out to see what the fuss was about and had my attention directed to a big hawk sitting quietly, minding its own damn business, ignoring the squawking little ~~tough guy~~ robin a few feet away. ---
**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 27, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3278 "2024-07-27T22:08:55Z")
Yesterday there was an osprey right next to the highway, on the ground watching traffic. It was waiting for a break in traffic so it could retrieve a dead critter. It appeared to be quite juvenile, like maybe one that hatched last summer. It was an unusual sight. I’m guessing that the unusually tall, think vegetation we’ve had this year has made things a bit difficult for young hunters. Poor little eagle. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3279 "2024-08-01T03:51:15Z")
This evening, apparently guarding the nesting area within about 15 yards of my back porch. Even my terrier didn’t scare him off. [Papa Quail](https://imgur.com/ceKTh45) ETA: Don’t know what I’m doing wrong, sometimes it’ll show the image, other times not. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3280 "2024-08-01T12:05:34Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/ceKTh45.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ceKTh45.jpeg) Cool bird! ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3281 "2024-08-01T12:40:05Z")
Oh my gosh, he’s a cutie! I’ve never seen one. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3282 "2024-08-01T12:52:07Z")
Normally by this time of year we have at least 3 sets of parents running around with babies… The last couple of years we’ve gotten 3 hatches. This year spring stayed too cold and wet, haven’t seen any puffballs running around yet. Hope this is changing. He was about 15 yards from the back door, we’ll see them picking grit in the driveway fairly often. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854/3283 "2024-08-09T01:42:25Z")
I’ve been a bit delayed in adding stuff, so a couple of days ago I saw a beat-up luna moth on our fence, probably near the end of its days: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53911529974_11b634be1f_b.jpg "luna moth") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/197666118@N08/53911529974/in/dateposted-public/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=163) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-nature-i-saw/915854.md?page=165)