Garden Wildlife

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Wildlife discovered in the garden - click on any name to learn more. 

Barred Owls - a male and female call to each other at night in nearby wooded areas. Occasionally at night, they perch in or near the garden while searching for food. Some locals think that the sound of their calls to each another, echoing through the woods, is romantic.

Bluebirds - five bluebird boxes have been installed in the garden. All are regularly used.

Cardinals - usually spend the winter in the garden and nearby woods.

Chipmunks - small, fast-moving, live in holes in the ground.

Five-lined Skinks - harmless, fast-moving little lizards with blue tails. Prefer staying beneath rocks. 

Hawks - stay high in the more established trees in and near the garden. Call out to each other every day.  

Hummingbirds - the "humming" made by their fast-moving wings can be mistaken for large bees.

Little Brown Bats  - harmless to humans, help with nighttime mosquito control. Feed on insects attracted to lights. Occupy a bat house installed by the Sullivans in nearby woodland area. 

Opossums - furry animals come out at night. Live in trees. "Play dead" if discovered, move quickly when perceived danger is gone.

Rabbits - every year, a fuzzy hole is found somewhere in the garden that contains baby rabbits. 

Raccoons - like the opossums, come out at night from nearby woods. 

Robins - seasonal visitors. Love looking for worms after a good rain.

Snowy egrets - occasionally perch in the trees, fly from nearby Tennessee River.

Squirrels - live in nests they build high in nearby hardwood trees. Thrive on acorns and start new oak seedlings each year..

White-tailed deer - visit the garden each day on their way across the road. Have not eaten any of the garden plants. Sometimes leave small piles of scat. Live in nearby woodland area.  

Wild turkeys - occasional visitors in the fall. 

Emergency contacts and resources 

SOUTHEAST
TENNESSEE

Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, Inc.
Chattanooga Office
Phone 423-267-1297 
Fax 423-265-4923

Children's 
Advocacy Center
- Hamilton County
Office: 
(423) 266-6918
24-hour child abuse hotline: 
(423) 266-0162

Domestic Violence
Resources

Focus Adolescent Services: Family Help in Tennessee
(410) 341-4342
(877) 362-8727

The Partnership
for Families,
Children and Adults
(Partnershipfca)
Family Violence 
Services Shelter
and Sexual Crisis & Resource Center
24-hour hotline:
(423) 755-2700

Survival Necessities Assistance

Tennessee Dept.
of Human Services
Child and elder abuse
24-hour hotline:
(423) 266-0162

USA 

Abuse Consultants
Suicide resource
page

Child Help USA
24-hour National
Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-422-4453

Cyber Tipline
To report child sexual exploitation
24-hour hotline: 1-800-843-5678

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men
24-hour hotline:
1-877-643-1120, 
pin # 0757

Friends of Battered Women and Their Children
Counseling and legal
advocacy
24-hour hotline:
1-800-603-4357

Hot Peach
Pages - USA
State lists of agencies against domestic violence

KID SAVE
"Referrals to shelters, mental health services,
sexual abuse
treatment, substance abuse, family counseling,
residential care, adoption/foster care, etc."
24-hour helpline:
1-800-543-7283

National Center
for Missing and
Exploited
Children (NCMEC)
24-hour hotline
1-800-843-5678

National Center
on Elder Abuse
State Elder Abuse
Hotlines

National Family
Violence Helpline
24-hour hotlines:
National Child
Abuse Hotline
1-800-422-4453
National Domestic
Violence Hotline
1-800-799-7233 or
1-800-787-3244
(TTY)
Victims of elder abuse
1-800-879-6682

National Family
Violence Hotline
24-hour hotlines:
1-800- 221-2681  
1-800- 222-2000

National Runaway/ Adolescent Suicide Hotline
24-hour hotline:
1-800-621-4000

National Suicide Hotline
(Centerstone)
24-hour hotline:
1-800-SUICIDE
(1-800-784-2433)

National Youth
Crisis Hotline
"...for children and
youth who are
abused, suicidal, chemically dependent, depressed over family
or school problems, runaway or
abandoned."
24-hour hotline
1-800-442-4673

Rape, Abuse, &
Incest National
Network (RAINN)
24-hour hotline:
1-800-656-4673

SAFE (Self-Abuse
Finally Ends) Alternatives) 
Provides Information;
not a crisis number
1-800-DONT-CUT
(1-800-366-8288)

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Stop It Now!
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Helpline 
(office hours only)
1-888-773-8368

Suicide Prevention
24-hour hotlines
1-800-827-7571
1-800-784-2433

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."

CANADA  

Abuse
Consultants
Suicide resources

Centre for Treatment of Sexual Abuse & Childhood Trauma
Serves Ottawa-Carleton 
613-233-4929

Hot Peach
Pages - Canada  
Agencies against
domestic violence

Kids' Help Phone
National phone counselling svc. for children and youths
24-hour hotline
1-800-668-6868

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Telecare Distress
Centre
Confidential 24-hour crisis and befriending phone support line:
(905) 459-7777
(Not toll-free)
Email address: telecare@on.aibn.com

Victims of Violence
For victims of violent crime - Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 233-0052
vofv@victimsofviolence.
on.ca

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."

Non-emergency help & support 

Advocacy
Committee for
Human Experimentation Survivors - Mind
Control
(ACHES-MC)

Mr. Light and Associates/
Utah Committee Against Ritual
Abuse (UCARA)

NetSmartz411
"Online resource for answering questions about Internet safety, computers, and the Web."

North American
Freedom
Foundation
(NAFF)

Occult Research
and Crime
Consultants
(ORCC)

Stop Mind Control
and Ritual Abuse Today (SMART)

Survivorship

Many more contacts are listed in our "Support and Resources" web pages.