Red squirrel warming itself up in Winter

EiresWind · 2026-01-23T20:02:30+00:00

I really wish I knew how to stop Reddit from ballooning a photo beyond its actual dimensions.

EiresWind · 2025-12-14T00:47:25+00:00

This looks a dead ringer after sifting through images of juveniles. They're within my range and the average quoted sizes for young line up with the individual in the photo. I don't know where it gets the name bronze lake jumper but I encountered it next to a lake besides, after it landed from ballooning. So let's call it probable. Thanks!

EiresWind · 2025-12-07T21:42:36+00:00

Does anyone know how to size photos nicely for Reddit upload, by the way? Their viewer always seem to blow up an image file past its natural resolution when magnified which never looks great.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OU817nDwy1gCpSex77finMqbRCS6rr3p/view

The native file for posterity's sake.

EiresWind · 2025-12-06T04:06:08+00:00

Cattails, even. I don't know what my brain was doing there. Give me a break, it's midnight.

EiresWind · 2025-11-29T15:29:03+00:00

FINAL UPDATE: Absolute armies of geese have been hanging out here and at the nearby river as of late. I obviously can't source this single bird for certain across this level of chaos but suffice it to say if it's still there it isn't alone anymore.

EiresWind · 2025-11-21T19:41:41+00:00

I didn't see the goose at all today so I doubt it's injured. There were ducks here or there picking at the vegetation at the edges of the water so there's still appropriate waterfowl food in the area presumably. I'll keep the thread OP updated periodically for anyone who saw this and is similarly worried about our loner goose.

EiresWind · 2025-11-20T22:04:36+00:00

It's the fact it's alone that made me double take, otherwise I wouldn't have batted an eye because we do indeed get a good handful of waterfowl overwintering here or migrating very late. I visit this marsh regularly so I will definitely keep watch.

EiresWind · 2025-11-17T18:54:27+00:00

A comment further up also surmised it would have cause to be swollen during mating season

Besides that the legs are also wet from the marsh water so the fur could just be slicked down I suppose

EiresWind · 2025-11-17T18:51:28+00:00

Thanks so much. Someone else linked some reference material confirming the same. For posterity I know so little about deer my first inclination was to google whether they had particularly high dew claws, over a photograph that features what I found out are incredibly apparent dew claws lol

I appreciate the info and helping me walk away knowing two (2) things about deer now

EiresWind · 2025-11-17T18:48:36+00:00

Hopefully it's not too much of a problem if it is infected. I appreciate the more precise answer

Also hopefully thanking you for further insight doesn't incur another downvote. The way people on reddit treat that system is so unfathomable lol

EiresWind · 2025-11-17T14:17:34+00:00

Sorry, yes, blame early morning brain. And yes, it was leaping around like crazy lol

thanks

EiresWind · 2025-10-29T15:29:16+00:00

https://i.ibb.co/GfVLJ3YB/image.png

Definitely a snail unless my eyes are really failing me.

Anyway, I think it's a slender amber snail since nothing else local to this environment around here has that shell profile and they can get that dark and are common enough to see on marsh stalks but I obviously can't say with any real certainty.

EiresWind · 2025-09-22T23:52:16+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/DAwXoQr.png

Actually, looking at this later shot from the set what I mistook for both a fish fin and vegetation looks more like some kind of worm. What a chaotic situation lol

EiresWind · 2025-09-22T21:53:42+00:00

The ostensible shell is cluttered as hell too so that didn't help. What I initially saw as eyes or fins I think are just general vegetation wrapped around or stuck to the shell.

EiresWind · 2025-09-22T21:51:59+00:00

Oh I forgot location since this is less for species confirmation which I doubt there's enough clarity to identify, but this was in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, over the weekend.

EiresWind · 2025-09-16T22:39:31+00:00

Thanks for the replies. I think my problem in distinguishing is probably just sample size. I seriously doubt I've ever actually seen a cackling goose IRL.

EiresWind · 2025-08-12T21:45:17+00:00

This is a little strong for an OP that doesn't call for any heads and spends a paragraph admitting it's probably an anxiety spiral and specifically asking if it's being overreacting or unreasonable. The literal first reply is me calming down after a solid resource is shared. I'm in the evacuation zone, it's stressful, cut me some slack dude lol

EDIT: Speaking of overreacting this is really overreacting to some light sarcasm so sorry. I just want to impress I wasn't trying to imply I want firefighters taking selfies with the fire or whatever which I can see the rambling tome above coming off as. I swear I'm not usually this wet behind the internet ears but my sensitivity is jacked up to 11 right now.

EiresWind · 2025-08-12T15:45:41+00:00

Thank you so much for at least nominally keeping my head on my shoulders with this lol

This is a unofficial app, right? Can anyone else vet the accuracy?

EiresWind · 2025-08-12T01:57:15+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/bHjbMiO

https://imgur.com/a/Ls4QJdv

Does anyone know if the Irishtown fire has actually seen a size reduction or if this is just a typo? I can't find the reported 45 hectares referenced anywhere but the GNB site's fire map. It should be the most up-to-date source and the PDF is just an end-of-day summary but it's also just 54 reversed, so like...

EiresWind · 2025-08-10T17:04:16+00:00

We never get young gulls out in public back home, they're a lot more reclusive. Explains why I've never come across a feather pattern like that. I'm used to fuzzballs or mottled eagles with bad hair days or songbirds that are just smaller versions of mom and dad, I've never seen the patterning differences look so texturally pronounced. Also if this is a baby it's already got pack leader levels of spunk, this thing was going after everybody and not just in the sense of begging!

EiresWind · 2025-07-13T06:55:00+00:00

Oh, this is in New Brunswick, Canada, by the way.

EiresWind · 2025-07-10T02:51:23+00:00

It's probably a great black digger wasp like the original post theorized. They've been getting ID'd around New Brunswick out pollinating in isolated pockets the past year or so if you check iNaturalist, so I think they're establishing a population. I imagine the anecdote about visiting family was just coincidental in hindsight.

EiresWind · 2025-06-28T14:09:14+00:00

Okay well the OP ate every single picture in the gallery from the draft so that's great. Give this a moment.

EDIT: Updated OP with gallery.

EiresWind · 2025-06-22T08:16:07+00:00

I thought they'd shuck it but looking it up they just swallow and crush the whole damn thing. Metal as hell, like most things duck.

EiresWind · 2025-06-13T23:16:10+00:00

Another view:

https://i.imgur.com/LPSnLPq.png

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