Animals around your house...

Not spectacular?! Like Susanne said, I would freak out, and then would probably call a zoo or something.
Because they are only kept as pets here in the Netherlands, not native at all XD

Beautiful critter! Look at those toes <3 <3

Thanks for your words about my scaly visitor. Actually, I forgot that geckos are not so common everywhere. They were a daily sight during all my youth and now back some weeks to my homeland, I could see thousands of them, mainly from another smaller species. I've seen also a chameleon, flamingos, etc., pity that I haven't taken pictures.

There are Ring necked parakeets in the UK as well.When I lived in London they were very common in parks and were easy to spot flying around as well.They are also found around London and there is a huge roost of about 3,000 parakeets in one of the surrounding counties.
While on holidays in Florida I also saw some feral parakeets-blue headed conures.Florida and California have the largest number and species of parakeets in the USA.

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Anguis fragilis

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another lizard: Lacerta viridis

thank you Andreas! :)

both of them were easy to shoot because the first one, a female (black lines on the sides), pretended to be dead when I surprised it in the middle of my way and I released it on the side to avoid it any trouble and the second one, a young male (blue throat), felt secure behind the grave stone and did'nt move any more!..

It seems that animals also love to pose to be displayed online. Thanks for sharing.

After a little much needed rain, the big Vineyard snails came out by the dozens
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Very lovely

Last weekend, I saw a caracara for the first time in 25+ years. I had to do a double take to be sure of what I saw.

I'm guessing it was a crested caracara

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Holy Hamster !!! How long is it ?
Here blind worms rarely get more than 15 - 20 cm long, and they are much thicker

Simone, this is fun !
A couple of days ago I saw two Vineyard snails not far from my house
I have never seen one alive before, and there they were !!!!!...perhaps the climate change ?

A CARACARA
Kelly, imagine to see such an exotic bird flying round where you live
Is it as big as it seems in pictures ?

Susanne, here are loads and loads of the big Vineyard snails. Every time I take a wheelbarrow load to the muck heap, I have to pick up the snails to put them out of harms way. They even invade the riding ring, so I have to go round first and save them from being stepped on

That must be almost too much snailing
But I love it that you try not to harm them

Adam, it would have been a northern crested caracara, yes. Wikipedia mentions a population in eastern Seminole county around Lake Harney near the headwaters of the St. John river, and that's just where it was- a few miles west of the lake. I live just west of that area, and was driving over to the coast. The area is mostly wet, a mixture of marshland, dense woods, and cattle pastures from still in use to well overgrown. Not that many houses.

Susanne, it was a surprise! It looked to be a bit over knee high, maybe even mid thigh. So perhaps 2/3 meter? It was scavenging a roadkill it had pulled over into a driveway.

Interesting, thanks for sharing :)

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That HAS TO be the next bird for Safari to make for the North America series

Yes it does :)

Amazing camouflage ,
- and I can see a devil's face in the pattern ... the front legs are the horns

There's an old legend in Colombia that tells that the spirits of the Tierradentro complex, use to return to the world of the living disguised in insects!   Well, actually Ive never heard about it but what is really ahppening?

I see an Egyptian pharaoh on the bug

A nice 'Red Admiral' taking a sunbath on my stable wall
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Handsome beast he is