Tag: Waterbowl
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Bluebird and Brown Thrasher at The Waterbowl
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in BirdsThis young bluebirds chilling at the waterbowl in Charleston SC when a brown thrasher lands and starts running and hopping around looking for beetles and bugs. We have cardboard mulch down in some of these areas making the brown thrasher have to work a little more to get through it and under the pine straw…
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Marsh Raccoon w/ Pluff Mud Feet Scurries Through Fog
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in MammalsThis is one of five raccoons (1 mama, 4 young ones) that visit our marsh back yard in Charleston SC. The wide angle shows fog not snow, but the closer camera is so close that the fog is not seen. Raccoons love to hunt and fish at low tide. It’s easier for them to see…
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Possum Drinking From Waterbowl
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in MammalsOpossum (aka Possum) is the only North American Marsupial. Marsupials are mammals with pouches. Possums give birth to live young but then the itty bitty babies climb to their mamas pouch by their abdomen and latch onto a nipple where it hangs out for a couple months. I do not know if this possum is…
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Mama Possum At Water Bowl & Pouch Full of Babies
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in MammalsOpossums (or possums) are the only marsupial in North America. They have 13 nipples. Possums can have up to 25 babies but the average litter is 6-9. We will hopefully get to see how many babes this possum has soon! Possum babies stay in the mama’s pouch for 8 weeks and then they ride on…
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