What I see in my backyard...

[Czevski]

I got my bird-feeder fixed and "bird" is glad I did.

 

[J. A.]

My lilacs

 

[scifan57]

My lilacs
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They look beautiful, with the blooms at their peak.

 

[giradman]

Rhododendrons blooming in our backyard - need to shoot some 'prettier' pics but rainy today - Dave
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[J. A.]

And now for something completely different: my daughter bought this for our backyard, and it's finally completely filled. We haven't used it yet, I hope that will happen this week, if it's warm enough.

 

[J. A.]

 

[J. A.]

Not yet finished

 

[Pinkpoison]

Saw this little chap in my garden.

 

[scifan57]

View attachment 80196 Saw this little chap in my garden.

Looks like a hedgehog.

 

[Pinkpoison]

Looks like a hedgehog.

Yes...
Just a young one

 

[giradman]

Yes...
Just a young one

Cute one, too! Now, I've seen hedgehogs in zoos and on nature shows, but just thought that these spiny guys are not much mentioned on this side of the Atlantic - so, looked at a Wiki article (just the first paragraph quoted below) and there are no living species native to the Americas - learn something every day! Dave

A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to the Americas (the extinct genus Amphechinus was once present in North America). Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and have changed little over the last 15 million years. Like many of the first mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life.[3] Hedgehogs' spiny protection resembles that of the unrelated porcupines, which are rodents, and echidnas, a type of monotreme.

 

[Pinkpoison]

Cute one, too! Now, I've seen hedgehogs in zoos and on nature shows, but just thought that these spiny guys are not much mentioned on this side of the Atlantic - so, looked at a Wiki article (just the first paragraph quoted below) and there are no living species native to the Americas - learn something every day! Dave

He's really sweet isn't he, I haven't seen him since but they are nocturnal so I was surprised it was out in the day time.
They are really good for the garden as they eat the slugs

That's surprising that there are none in the USA.

 

[J. A.]

 

[wisdom bank]

On our right is a hotel, on the left is a grocery store and in front is mosque.

 

[J. A.]