What have you found...

[fireview2788]

under your wood stacks? A few months ago I could smell something dead around my wood stacks but couldn't find it. Well, when I was moving the last of the wood yesterday I found the culprit, a dead opossum in the skid. I left it there and figure I'll get the skeleton out in a couple years and give it to a nature center that's always looking for skeletons.


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[BillLion]

under your wood stacks? A few months ago I could smell something dead around my wood stacks but couldn't find it. Well, when I was moving the last of the wood yesterday I found the culprit, a dead opossum in the skid. I left it there and figure I'll get the skeleton out in a couple years and give it to a nature center that's always looking for skeletons.


fv

I found a chipmunk this morning popping its head in and out of one of my stacks. Pretty cute. Usually it's hard to get a good look at one because they race like he wind through the yard.

Oh yeah...spiders! Not a fan of those.

 

[osagebow]

Neighbor had this at eye level in his woodshed back in August. Another was underneath, they shotgunned it. (This was decapitated and given to me for skin - I don't kill rattlers)

 

[osagebow]

Plenty of these guys - Eastern fence lizard. These pics are from the spring,hence the blue "70's wedding tux" color on this male.

 

[JOHN BOY]

Plenty of snake skins and spiders .Nothing dead yet .

 

[red oak]

Snakes - none dead though! I don't kill them - we leave each other alone and they eat the mice that are there.

By the way, are you sure that opossum was dead? I hear sometimes they pretend.....

 

[AnalogKid]

Just mice here, nothing exotic, thankfully.

 

[basod]

I found a snake shed on the side of the brick chimney a few days ago ~20' up while climbing the ladder for my sweep out.
The rat snakes can climb - hopefully the attic is sealed well enough

In the piles I found a stash of Jalapenos that were missing from my garden last - fall bright red ones - that chipmunk wanted to stay warm during the winter!

 

[STIHLY DAN]

That's the great part oh living in NH, no surprises, NOTHING can harm you. Maybe see a garder snake or two.

 

[fireview2788]

Snakes - none dead though! I don't kill them - we leave each other alone and they eat the mice that are there.

By the way, are you sure that opossum was dead? I hear sometimes they pretend.....

Yeah, it was dead and looked fairly mummified but I didn't poke it to find out. I've seen them play dead before and their eyes still sparkle this one didn't have any eyes TO sparkle.

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[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

Leaves...

 

[leonardo]

snakes(garter and blue racer). mice, including babies so young the eyes weren't open. a bat that looked sick, removed with gloved hands. lots of young woodchucks have dug holes under the skids.

 

[weatherguy]

I found a garter snake and a ring necked snake, also had a yellow spotted salamander, always see chipmunks poking their heads up.

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[osagebow]

I found a snake shed on the side of the brick chimney a few days ago ~20' up while climbing the ladder for my sweep out.
The rat snakes can climb - hopefully the attic is sealed well enough

In the piles I found a stash of Jalapenos that were missing from my garden last - fall bright red ones - that chipmunk wanted to stay warm during the winter!

That would make him a...Chipotlemunk?

 

[Paulywalnut]

Lots of mice nests. Sometimes with babies I try to save them for the cat.