I just walked out into my backyard and saw a squirrel sitting on our fence, it was laying there on the fence squeaking and sounded to be in pain, we tried tossing him some pistachios but it didn't budge, I went into my garage and grabbed some gloves so o could maybe try and get ahold of it and see what I could do from there. When I cam out he was chewing this spot on his side and looking around every couple seconds then going back to chewing, I approached it and was gonna try to get ahold of it but it ran up a tree which is right on our fenceline. He climbed the tree real slow and when I looked up he had blood all in his mouth and kept squeaking Central ohio (we do have a drought rn but I don't think that's the issue) Any tips? Should I leave out food and water?

update: it IS a bat! I checked this evening above the spot and there it was clinging to the porch rafters above the spot where i always find the skat. I read that bats like to hang out under porches while digesting their food to hide from predators like owls. it is very cute. I don't mind cleaning up from time to time. maybe I'll build a bat house too so they have more spots to shelter.

We moved to this house a few years ago and since we moved in this mysterious scat keeps on reappearing. Every time I clean it up it comes back. It's concentrated two spots on our front porch. There is nothing in the rafters of the porch where a critter could be hiding. Does anyone know what could be leaving this behind?

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Good evening everyone. Would someone happen to know what animal would eat and separate the black sunflower bird feed like this?

Meet Isadore.

We have a new creature in the neighbourhood

We found these two holes in our backyard just a few feet from our house. I looked up snake holes and thought that was it, but it looks like any hole any animal could make, right? Idk, so I figured reddit was my best bet to find people with the knowledge to help identify them. Any ideas?

I want to start by saying that I love all our backyard wildlife, which has included a number of sandhill cranes that are return visitors. We had a couple that visited regularly and even brought their baby to us excitedly finally after multiple failed mating seasons. A lone sandhill crane started coming by daily about a week or two ago, and she just calmly hung out on our back patio and foraged in the grass. No biggie. Yesterday, she returned with a very aggressive mate that has been exhibiting destructive/self destructive behavior. We live in Florida, and we have very strong hurricane proof sliding glass doors out back. I assume he saw his reflection and felt territorial/aggressive, and he started pecking aggressively at the glass. When that wasn’t enough, he began smashing is head into it and flying at it so forcefully that he’s leaving behind blood with his beak scratches. I’m really concerned he’ll injure himself. We shooed him away repeatedly yesterday and sat on the porch to get him to keep his distance, but it was a full time job until they flew away at sunset. He returned by 7am smashing his head into the windows again. I don’t know how to deter him, and I’m really worried he’ll hurt himself. I can’t be here to shoo him away at all hours. I’ll get him to leave one side of the house, and he’ll wander to glass on another side and start over. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have a baby bunny in my front lawn.

The mom and other siblings have been eaten by a fox at night caught on ring camera.

Not sure how to help the baby bunny. There’s just one left.

I covered the surrounding area with hay and dry leaves and sticks in hopes no other animals will get to it.

The baby stays in the burrow all day but it’s so hot. I’ve watered the surrounding grass with water but didn’t get close to the spot.

I also don’t want to put food out because I’m scared it will attract animals.

Thanks in advance.