Critter pictures

[dave1949]

This gator appeared in my pond as I was digging it.

Yikes! Didn't know gators were that far north. So, now what do you do? Live with it or what?
Dave.

 

[YesDeere]

The brown dog and the T cat. Not livestock but my buddies

 

[Bandit4]

Dave
Wildlife told me he was most likely there with another gator laying eggs and would stay there until they hatched and then leave. I have a sandy soil mixed with a little clay. Gator are protected in North Carolina so you can not kill them. He came back the next year when I started digging the pond deeper and put more sandy soil up on the banks. Grass is there now and have not seen any in three years.

 

[dave1949]

Dave
Wildlife told me he was most likely there with another gator laying eggs and would stay there until they hatched and then leave. I have a sandy soil mixed with a little clay. Gator are protected in North Carolina so you can not kill them. He came back the next year when I started digging the pond deeper and put more sandy soil up on the banks. Grass is there now and have not seen any in three years.

Let's hope he stays away. I have no concept of dealing with something like gators. From my vast knowledge of gators gained through countless hours of watching the Discovery Channel , it sounds like if there isn't an agreeable egg laying area, they move on.
Dave.

 

[Leejohn]

Here are some of me and my critters and a few interesting ones.

 

[dave1949]

Here are some of me and my critters and a few interesting ones.

That is some hinky stuff you have growing there
Dave.

 

[Leejohn]

Man I'm in Missouri and you don't know what you might come across here.
The white things is water coming out the ground around a weed and freezing. The yellow thing I'm saving to later to see if someone can tell what it is.

 

[dave1949]

Man I'm in Missouri and you don't know what you might come across here.
The white things is water coming out the ground around a weed and freezing. The yellow thing I'm saving to later to see if someone can tell what it is.

I never would have guessed the white stuff is ice. Must be a seep that freezes at the surface and keeps pushing out, forming that ribbon shape. Like an extrusion press. I have never seen anything like the yellow. I guessed it is some some of fungus, looks like its growing on wet wood.
Dave.

 

[jinman]

The yellow thing I'm saving to later to see if someone can tell what it is.

It's a TRIFFID! Run for your life!

 

[jimmyj]

The white ice pics are amazing. I could never have guessed that. The others have to be a fungus like Dave says - no?

BTW, your pic is great with the shepherd crook "herding" the turkey with that hat thingee. ha ha ha (I know, great sentence but whatever...)