What wildlife have you seen at your place?

[Minimor]

Well, there's no actual post, just the thread title, but I'll take that & run with it!

Wildlife we have had at our place...in no particular order...cougar, bull moose, white tail deer, rabbits, foxes, coyotes, timber wolves, beaver, muskrat, mink, skunk, raccoons, porcupines. The bull moose was on the road right on the end of our driveway, everything else was either in our yard or the pasture at one time or another.

We're in a fairly built up subdivision but right on the back edge of it. It's open country here, other than the trees that have been planted in many of the yards in the subdivision. There is a marsh about 1 1/4 miles away and a forest reserve about 1 1/2 miles from us. There are bears in the forest reserve but so far they haven't ventured out to our neighborhood...which suits us fine!! There are also elk there, but they stay back in the bush and don't come out this way either--though I have seen them the other side of us, closer to the city.

 

[Sixstardanes]

Quails, Squirrels, Chipmunks, Skinks, Lizards, Mice, Coyotes, Bears, Raccoons, Hawks, Ravens (lots of other birds)

And of course a few stray cat or dog from time to time.

 

[targetsmom]

I wonder if the problem was with Lil Beginnings or my computer.... It was taking awhile to load and I walked away.

Anyway, we live on 7.5 acres in a suburban area in CT and have seen:

bear

beaver

bobcat

otter

fox

great blue heron

turkeys (our stallion is enthralled with them!)

lots of ducks on our pond

 

[Jill]

Nothing too exciting...... birds, deer, squirrel, chipmunks, moles, mice, snakes, lizards, fox, possum, and skunks.

One fox was rabid, I am sure... saw him in daylight when I had a foal years ago and I ran out the house worried for "Skipper" who hadn't yet been vaccinated for rabies. The fox just walked away looking over his shoulder at me but in absolutely no hurry. From his attitude and the broad daylight, we feel sure he was rabid

 

[Filipowicz Farm]

Since living here we have had 53 different types of birds, deer, rabbits , fox, wild turkeys,raccoons,squirrels,skunks, mice,muskrats,

 

[AppyLover2]

Nothing terribly exciting here either, but I love seeing them. Rabbits, squirrels, deer, turkey, a LOT of raccoons (although I've never actually seen them), ducks and geese. The most unusual thing I've seen is twice now I've watched eagles fish in my lake. Absolutely thrilled me to see it. Oops almost forgot shih tzus, german shepards and lately a little red something that looks a lot like an Irish Setter puppy. I dearly love looking out and seeing wildlife.

 

[Cathy_H]

I didn't see it but I sure smelled it. Tucked the horses in last night & the barn & the dog smelled fresh essence of skunk! Shut the dog out of the barn. Fed this morning & smell was still strong ................ Went to the furniture store to buy a new sofa, got back in the car and it faintly smelled like skunk - OH NO -

it had to be on my hair as I did not have any of the same clothes on - so I went home! The barn still stinks!

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

I live on 236acres of mixed field and forest so we have lots of wildlife. In my yard I have seen (or seen the tracks/droppings of) moose, deer, fox,coyotes,hawks (several kinds) wood peckers and other assorted birds, ducks,geese,ravens,crows etc., rabbits,squirrels, chipmunks, bears, grouse, mice and not too far from the house is a pond and stream that the beaver and muskrat love. I do not love them, they dig their escape tunnels into my pasture and I am forced to go out every spring and try to find them and break them down so any large horse or cattle in that pasture won't break thro and injure themselves. Darn things!

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Wildlife is almost too up close and personal here. These two photos were taken from my front door:

and we can't forget the visits from porcupines:

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Raccoons, coyotes, and great horned owls have carried off our chickens and guineas. I've seen mountain lions 3 times locally. We have to stop on the road and let wild turkeys cross. And my neighbor had a dead turkey vulture in her yard--she thinks his wingspan was so wide he hit both electric lines and shorted out. And I won't include the photos of snakes we've seen.

The driveway is busy will killdeer right now and meadow larks are singing in the morning. Hawks circling above. Walking sticks on the screen doors and the wasps are trying to move in. Something keeps tearing open the bird house on my porch as I think there are mice in in.

And here is a bold guy, right up on the porch:

 

[ozymandias]

What wildlife?...Wild life...

15, 16, 17 and 18 year old teenage boys ...hundreds of them migrate here on a weekly basis HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA They are WILD hahahahaha.

 

[dgrminis]

Hmm.. We have a herd of deer that occasionally make their home in a grove of trees in the back corner of the pasture. So I see them pretty often -- generally anywhere from 6-9 adults and several babies depending on the time of year.

We have LOTS of pheasants, dove, and other birds.... Sometimes occasionally turkeys. Racoon, opposums, and the ever popular Skunks....

Sometimes we even see moles, gophers and prairie dogs - but they dont last long as they are bad for the cattle with their holes....

Chipmunks and Squirrels also are around....

And we have ALOT of coyotes -- actually the pasture across the road has a litter or two of pups in it right now -- they arent big enough to venture out yet but we can hear them yipping quite often....

I think that is really all that is around here on a regular basis....

Certain times of the year we get geese or ducks that are flying over land on our ponds.... But that is pretty rare...

 

[backwoodsnanny]

From my house or in the neighborhood there are deer moose turkey porcupines and eagle who soars every morning, a fischer, of course red and gray squirrels, chipmunks, rabbit, racoon, all kinds of birds including a great horned who would have liked to have eaten my little dog, coyote, we usually hear them but dont see them and at points in time we have in the past had black bear and bobcat. Oh forgot the skunks.

 

[Shari]

Huu...boy... where to start.

I guess with the predators which are very active... Coyote den down the hill, wolves, black bear, cougar, bobcat, then the odds and ends... spotted skunk, normal striped skunk, gopher, mole, shrew, vole, raccoon, possum, porcupines, grey and black squirrels, chickmunks, rats, field mice, kanagroo mice, (No Rabbits), Lizzards, newts, salamanders, frogs(though not so many any more) both cute green ones and the big fall leave colored ones you see in the woods. We did have deer but the poachers have killed them all. I do see Deer else where.. then the Elk.

Too many birds to put here... everything from chickadees to Bald Eagles. Love hearing the Cranes Autumn and Spring

I find it really weird.. our farm should attract turkey and pheseants but it doesn't. Only thing I can think of,,is the Predators ate them all.

 

[Marylou]

We live next to the Savanna Wildlife refuge. Have seen Florida Panther,sandhill cranes, rabbits, Bobcats, Wild Boar, Red fox, Armadillo,Pygmy Rattlers, and other poisonous snakes, many Geikos and of course alligators.

 

[River Wood]

Hmm... not too much...

Coyote

Pheasant

Deer

Opossum

Racoon

Mice

Rabbits

Usual Bugs

Toads/Frogs

chipmunks

squirrel

 

[Candice]

We've had several alligators in our pond over the years. I've seen a couple of Fl Panthers, We had a beautiful pair of fox squirrels for a few years. They were so playful and fun to watch. They were a mated pair and sadly a few years ago something killed one of them. The one would come around from time to time but I haven't seen him for a little over a year now. We have a variety of snakes. Mostly banded water snakes, black indigos and racers. Turtles, both snappers and bottlenose. We have every kind of bird out here you could imagine. Herons, cranes, vultures, Hawks, wild ducks. I have seen one bald eagle. He attracted a lot of attention. Just gorgeous!!! Earlier in the year we had a rather large family of rather large feral hogs tearing up our back pasture. I was glad to see them move on.

We had a pair of screech owls for a while but now that the Great Horned Owl is back they're no where to be seen or heard.

I am worried as I have been hearing coyotes and my neighbors have seen them. They're something I'd rather not have around. I'd also rather not see any bears. Several years ago my neighbor saw one pass thru along our fenceline.

 

[Kellie in OR]

We are on a dead end road that has just a couple 10 acre lots between us and BLM land. Most all of it is wooded, so we get all the normal birds and mammals. We do seem to have a large number of lizards in the summer. We have really pretty blue belly skinks, as well as little teeny tiny ones that the bigger lizzards eat. My favoite birds are the stellar Jays and quail, the ones that drive me crazy are the turkeys. The cougar pass throu so fast that one rarely sees or notices them. But the bears have scratching trees and are always rooting around. You would think my big horse would be "over" them by now, but he still goes goofy when he sees/smells them. For Christmas I am getting hubby an outdoor motion detector night camera. I think it he (and I) will enjoys seeing exactly what is walking around at night.

 

[Sassy'sMom]

We have seen just a few different types of wildlife around our place, nothing too exciting. Skunks, Raccoons, Moles, Red Fox, Coyotes, Snakes, Deer, Dogs, Rabbits, Hawks, Birds, and tons of Toads this year!

 

[whitney]

Luckily nothing that would eat a mini.

The latest thing is Sand Hill Cranes they are HUGE like 4 1/2 FEET TALL SCARED THE BEGEEZUS out of me.

 

[Sonya]

the usual, nothing remarkable:

mice, rats,squirrels, chipmunks, minks, muskrats, snakes, opposums, racoons, skunks (my dog got to meet one of those upclose and personal a couple months ago). Deer, coyote, fox, types of ducks, birds, hawks and eagles, pheasant, grouse...all your typical wildlife, I'm sure I'm missing many in there. There are reports of bear and wild pig around, but have yet to see them...knocking on wood. Also a few reports of wolverines, I actually would like to see one of them, but from a distance...very far distance!