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I mowed the front hayfield today. Mainly to get rid of the dandelions; also, last one on street to do first mow, lol. So thick it took two mower charges, lol.

I always want the dandelions to flower, then the grape hyacinths. Can't wait for the star of bethlehem or the lovely bugleweed to finish. I like wild, quite a bit...
 
A young buck and doe - a couple of “teenagers” - eating a nice green salad left in someone’s yard! They were actually looking right at me - though, the phone camera view is always a bit off. I made a noise, like “Hello.” Or “yoo-hoo?...and they both looked up and I snapped the photo. Otherwise they could care less if humans are around. They’re so used to us. Lol. She has her ears tagged with an ID number (blurred), and a collar. They’re tracking them...I think that’s for sterilization purposes, because there’s a big deer population in this city and people find them to be garden pests, but don’t want to cull them...so they’re trying to stop them from breeding. Poor thing (curious if it’s only the females? I’m going to check and find out if males are getting tagged too...sexism in the wild animal kingdom/ animal conservation system? :unsure:;)) Such beautiful animals. These house residents though...I wonder if they left those branches out for the deer on purpose?
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Deer follow the food and if there is lots of greenery they will come

in the country, a big year for deer results in big liters of wolves and coyotes, resulting in a natural cull of the deer, then a decrease in wolves. And on and on it goes

my animal tracking camera I have in the woods catches the deer year round nibbling away and twice I have caught one running down the path followed by running coyotes. or wolves. Hard to tell
 
Mallards in spring! We called our annual visitors David and Little Squeak. Laid eggs annually though any nests were found by the hordes of raccoons so I eventually hatched the eggs myself with the kids

in the spring is really the only time you see pairs of mallards. They all look for their own private swimming pool and become quite tame. We never actually swam with ours but almost. And then when nesting season is over they are back to living in big groups. I love mallards
 
We had a duck nest in one of our beds a few years ago (Little M was still home so at least 3). It was a bad move. I think coons or skunks got all the eggs in the end.
 
Really. We get Buffol heads. So cute. Harlequins. beautiful. Wood ducks, the males are really striking And have had a couple of random other ones. No loons though. Too far south
 
I would think that B.C. has a large variety of both fresh water and salt water ducks. It they can all look alike when grouped together. We had one Merganser in our pond one day. Cool duck with a head crest frill thing that he could put up and down
 
Lastpointe said:
I would think that B.C. has a large variety of both fresh water and salt water ducks. It they can all look alike when grouped together. We had one Merganser in our pond one day. Cool duck with a head crest frill thing that he could put up and down
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Maybe. Mallards seem to be the most common. These ones were in a park by one stretch of the creek a few weeks ago. I think I posted already but here's my contribution...image.jpeg
 
No ducks in my backyard, but a fair number in the neighbourhood. My parents get ducks that visit every spring which surprises me as they don't have a little pond or anything, just a birdbath.
 
Lastpointe said:
Really. We get Buffol heads. So cute. Harlequins. beautiful. Wood ducks, the males are really striking And have had a couple of random other ones. No loons though. Too far south
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We have herons, geese, there were a few swans in the pond near me in Stanley Park, when I lived near there. The park with the peacocks, here, has ducks (mallards) and swans, but I didn't see the swans last time I was there. I was kind of concentrating on getting photos of the peacocks so I was riding around looking for them.
 
We always have a very few pairs of loons in Kempenfelt Bay (they're quite territorial and easily disturbed). There was a LOT of them this spring, because the marinas were all kept closed and the Bay was free of motorized traffic. Back to normal-ish now, although no tourists.

We get a lot of Mergansers, mallards. And the ubiquitous geese.
 
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We always have a very few pairs of loons in Kempenfelt Bay (they're quite territorial and easily disturbed). There was a LOT of them this spring, because the marinas were all kept closed and the Bay was free of motorized traffic. Back to normal-ish now, although no tourists.

We get a lot of Mergansers, mallards. And the ubiquitous geese.
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Up on our lake in Haliburton, we had loons and mallards primarily plus the odd merganser. Don't recall getting a lot of geese there. And then we would get occasional visits from blue herons. One time we went down to the dock on a calm morning and could see just the tracks one of them had left in the sandy shallows wading along the shore.
 
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