The "Other" things you see when Birding

[smskelton]

Spent one afternoon hiking several miles to a birding site on a lake and this is the only thing we found on the hike.

[Clip]

Please consider my ids of these as they are which is from an amateur herper so I may be wrong. Southern Leopard Frog, Florida Softshell Turtle and maybe a Curly-tailed Lizard. All from a recent trip to Palm Beach County, FL.

[Kevin]

Here is an interesting find from yesterday, a Green Treefrog. There is not much around here I haven't seen before, so it was fun to see something new. It seems we are just out on the very edge of their range.

[The Bird Nuts]

13 hours ago, Clip said:

Please consider my ids of these as they are which is from an amateur herper so I may be wrong. Southern Leopard Frog, Florida Softshell Turtle and maybe a Curly-tailed Lizard. All from a recent trip to Palm Beach County, FL.

That lizard looks more like a Basilisk to me.

[SirVive]

Two bucks 50' off the trail stopped sparring just long enough to turn and look at 4 of us stop to stare before they went right back at it until us standing there watching made them too nervous and they walked off a few steps.

[Clip]

8 hours ago, The Bird Nuts said:

That lizard looks more like a Basilisk to me.

I wonder about that. If it is it is a young one as it was not nearly the size of the adults I have seen. I defaulted to Curly tailed because we saw so many in this part of Florida.

[MacMe]

17 hours ago, Kevin said:

Here is an interesting find from yesterday, a Green Treefrog. There is not much around here I haven't seen before, so it was fun to see something new. It seems we are just out on the very edge of their range.

I kept a couple of these as pets to help me earn my Reptile and Amphibian Merit Badge in Boy Scouts

[Seanbirds]

On 10/29/2021 at 6:57 AM, Clip said:

Southern Leopard Frog

Bullfrog thingy, probably Pig Frog.

On 10/29/2021 at 6:57 AM, Clip said:

Florida Softshell Turtle

Correct.

On 10/29/2021 at 6:57 AM, Clip said:

Curly-tailed Lizard

 

On 10/29/2021 at 8:00 PM, The Bird Nuts said:

That lizard looks more like a Basilisk to me.

Brown Basilisk is right.

[smskelton]

This was an unusual site lying 15 feet from my bird feeder.  I wonder what the attraction was?  I guess they like watching birds also.

[The Bird Nuts]

1 hour ago, smskelton said:

This was an unusual site lying 15 feet from my bird feeder.  I wonder what the attraction was?  I guess they like watching birds also.

Awww, that's adorable!

[Aidan B]

2 hours ago, smskelton said:

This was an unusual site lying 15 feet from my bird feeder.  I wonder what the attraction was?  I guess they like watching birds also.

Wow!!!!

[smskelton]

2 hours ago, smskelton said:

This was an unusual site lying 15 feet from my bird feeder.  I wonder what the attraction was?  I guess they like watching birds also.

IF you look carefully, I think there are four bobcats in this picture.

[Clip]

11 hours ago, smskelton said:

This was an unusual site lying 15 feet from my bird feeder.  I wonder what the attraction was?  I guess they like watching birds also.

I think they like eating the birds. Just saying! Still super cool visitors! WOW!!! All I get is feral house cats watching mine.

[lonestranger]

9 hours ago, smskelton said:

IF you look carefully, I think there are four bobcats in this picture.

I only see three, care to explain where you think the 4th bobcat is.

[Clip]

2 hours ago, lonestranger said:

I only see three, care to explain where you think the 4th bobcat is.

It is lying down in front of the rest of the cats. You can see it's back, back leg and tail.

[Clip]

Another Florida Softshelled Turtle yesterday.

[smskelton]

2 hours ago, lonestranger said:

I only see three, care to explain where you think the 4th bobcat is.

I think there is another bobcat kitten lying down on the left side of the picture with its head pointed away.  Try to line up the bodies with the heads looking at you and there seems to be too many bodies for the faces you see.

[Kevin]

15 hours ago, smskelton said:

This was an unusual site lying 15 feet from my bird feeder.  I wonder what the attraction was?  I guess they like watching birds also.

I see three heads, and three bodies. If the body in the back is a 4th one, where is the rest of the middle one?  

[Kevin]

These were some really cool slugs! They were bigger than my middle finger, and 3-4 inches long. 

[smskelton]

23 minutes ago, Kevin said:

I see three heads, and three bodies. If the body in the back is a 4th one, where is the rest of the middle one?  

I never saw this family together again so I don't have any other data.  The body lying down on the left foreground is a different animal from the tail you see in the upper left.  Whether the left head is part of that body or the one in the bottom left is the question.

[Kevin]

Here is what I see. 

[lonestranger]

2 hours ago, Kevin said:

Here is what I see. 

 

I see it the same as Kevin does. Here's my rough outline of how I think the three cats are arranged. 

 

[Kevin]

1 hour ago, lonestranger said:

 

I see it the same as Kevin does. Here's my rough outline of how I think the three cats are arranged. 

 

That's what I see. 

[smskelton]

1 hour ago, Kevin said:

That's what I see. 

Nice work on the three cats.  

[smskelton]

31 minutes ago, smskelton said:

Nice work on the three cats.  

I admit that I have always thought there were three Bobcats in the picture, but the left cat's body is in an awkward position.  Bobcats usually don't have more than two babies, and I have seen several young cats walking together in the area that appear to be around a year old.  I can say that I never expected you guys to work this hard on it.  Nice job!