What wildlife have you seen where you live lately?

[Cadence]

I'm in Colorado and so far this week I've seen a hawk, a fox, a squirrel, prarie dogs and some cows.

[yardwork]

1. Numerous hawks, crows, um...... other birds?

Squirrels.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Cows!?!?

Uh...cows are domesticated...
Anyway, lotsa deer in southern Georgia, a few squirrels, many vultures and some geese.

[MercutioATC]

8. Wild cows!!!!

MOOOOO!

[Cadence]

23. .

:D

[Cadence]

14. Really? Do you have a pet cow?

Oh for the love of Pete!!!!!!! You know what I meant...

[EstimatedProphet]

19. No, my apartment doesn't allow cows

[Wcross]

63. We have some huge Vultures around here (Tennessee) n/t

[bettyellen]

3. I saw a possum in my yard and i'm a 1/2 mile from manhattan!

[Seabiscuit]

4. Birds, birds, and more birds

[bettyellen]

12. hi biscuit! i wanted to say thanks for your advice.

[Seabiscuit]

43. Well I'm sure you're welcome... but... What advice?

[bettyellen]

78. about work stuff, my boss was holding out on me....

pay he owed + severance promised. we managed to settle things so i didn't get quite so totally screwed but i didn't have to go the DOL either.
you were very helpful! thank you.
betty

[Ron Green]

5. I saw a whale from my bedroom window last week.

And saw a huge elk right beside the road the other night; that was a close call.

[bettyellen]

10. wow, i wanna visit you!

[Ron Green]

25. Come on out.

My wife, though, may have a problem with your being in my bedroom!!

;)

[bettyellen]

37. she might not buy the whale watching story, huh?

[Ron Green]

38. She might be imagining the wrong kind of wild life.

:D

[bettyellen]

39. LOL!

[Cadence]

27. Where are you that you saw

a whale from your bedroom window?

[Ron Green]

28. Pacific Ocean.

They migrate south in late December-early January, and then north in March. There are some resident whales that we see once in a while, but the migratory season is the best time.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

50. A whale! How wonderful to live in a place to be able to see one like that!

[Ron Green]

65. Yes, it's beautiful. I also can see harbor seals and Steller sea lions

every day, just a couple of minutes walk from my house!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

69. You really are blessed!

[Seabiscuit]

71. Do you live in NYC?

[Ron Green]

72. No, I live on the coast of Oregon. Too cold to swim, but lots of

interesting critters to see.

[Seabiscuit]

75. Oh. Sorry. Just had the impression New York "had everything". :)

[yardwork]

76. That reminds me that I see deer all the time - running at my car

[auntAgonist]

6. lots of deer in our yard ...

my son just left and now my stepson is here , do they count?


j/k.

[CornField]

7. Cows are wildlife?

j/k

Lots of rabbits have been hopping around on the Iowa snow. I think the squirrels are staying warm in their nests. There've been lots of birds circling and taking food from my feeders. We saw some deer by the road Monday -- the doe looked really heavy.

[Cadence]

26. Are you telling me this doesn't look wild?

[HeeBGBz]

9. Hawks, squirrels, possum.

Possum was right by my front porch.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

11. A squirrel almost caused me to wreck my car today

I always brake for the little critters. A couple of weeks ago I saw a flock of wild turkeys at my apartment complex (I live near a wooded area). It was really cool!

[PittPoliSci]

13. two wonderful bunnies tonight.

i love bunnies.

[Cadence]

18. Yeah bunnies! My neighbors and I saved a bunny

last month. A fox had chased it up a drainage pipe and it was literally screaming. It was an eery sound I hope I don't hear again. The fox hung around and didn't care that there was a group of us there. We got the rabbit out and it ran away. Some girl gave the fox sliced turkey...I'm sure that's not the accepted way of handling wildlife but that's what happened.

I make it sound like I live in the stix..I'm actually in a very populated area..

[PittPoliSci]

21. i live in a heavily populated area too...

but sometimes it feels like i live in the sticks. when i was in high school, a deer jumped through a first floor window at the school and went terrorizing through the halls.

[Cobalt Violet]

15. A hawk, 3 Deer, and other birds.

[gardenista]

16. A great white heron gliding into a lagoon

a possum waddling down my side walkway

a hawk being mercilessly pestered by a gang of crows

[Cadence]

29. Are you a writer by chance?

You're very descriptive. A lot of possum sightings I've noticed. I haven't seen a possum around here before.

[gardenista]

36. I would like to be.

But the only writing I do these days is on DU or for newsletters, committees, and minutes for some professional organizations I belong to.

I also noticed that there are a lot of possum sightings, even in urban areas. Mating season, maybe?

One of my best all-time sightings was years ago when we lived on a small farm in Maryland. A barn owl appeared late at night, right outside my kitchen door. He came back many times that month, and we learned that he had been rehabilitated by our neighbor. He bonded to humans and chose our small farm to hang out at. He landed on our heads and jumped around sometimes. Never hurt us, but it freaked out the dogs when he did it to them.

There is a story there, maybe I should work on it!

Thanks!

[LibDemAlways]

17. A rattlesnake in my garage...

A coyote in the yard...Plenty of rabbits....Hawks overhead.

I live in So. Calif. suburbia, close to a brush area.

One day my daughter rushed in to tell me a bird had flown into the garage. I went out and there in the rafters was an enormous hawk quietly feasting on the remains of whatever it was he had caught for lunch.

[pansypoo53219]

20. middle of Milwaukee, WI

of course fucking english sparrows, house finches. squirrels
and a big fat possum.

[AllyCat]

32. What? No Racoons?

Waste Manglement hasn't bothered to pick up our trash lately in 'Tosa due to the holidays or Christmas or whatever it's called.

Little bandits have been having a field day in our dumpster. Many deer in the Parkway and crossing State Street on their way to Leff's Lucky Town (I'm not kidding).

[AllyCat]

33. Several flocks of snow geese--that was a treat!

Also several Red-tailed hawks, juncos, finches, cardinals, and blue jays.

Deer out in the woods and in the park near my house.

One fox and heard a coyote. All the mice have moved into the barn and are keeping the horses company (well, okay, they are picking up the grain the sloppy eaters leave all over the floor).

Wild Turkey everywhere (the birds, not the drink).

[Cadence]

35. I forgot Geese!

We have geese EVERYWHERE here. In the grocery store parking lots, by Starbucks, in the middle of the road, you name it.. there are geese there. It's so normal, I don't even think about it.

[AllyCat]

40. We have the Candian variety all over the place, but

we watched Winged Migration and they talked about Snow Geese. I thought, now there is a bird I've never seen. The next morning I went outside and heard this crane-like honking overhead. Huge flocks of white birds. They were just beautiful against that blue sky one only gets in winter.

[Cadence]

41. Yeah Canadian geese are mainly what we have

but there are several lakes that have snow geese and you're right they are beautiful.

[nutsnberries]

22. just last night - 3 deer in the yard.

those were the most recent visitors spotted (the deer population seems to be way up lately)

and there has been word (warning) of a pack of coyotes.
It's been a few years since anyone reported seeing a coyote in the area.

:scared:

[pres2032]

24. um...squirrels, a crow, some deer

[readmylips]

30. Beautiful Hummingbirds, Roadrunner, Owl, Goats, Cows...

Hawks, a pig...oh no, the pig was my ex husband.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

31. Squirrels, herons, ducks, some weird

water bird that I don't know the name off, minnows, and stray cats. I also see lots of lizards and sometimes frogs. There's been tons of ants around here lately. We've got some in our apartment that we can't seem to get rid off.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. I saw some large old deer the other day

in a patch of woods near my house. They looked very well fed and were quite gray around their faces. I'd followed a trail into an area that looked like it had been a camp for a homeless person in the warmer months.

I've also seen and heard a broad-winged hawk in the neighborhood and a few mallards at a nearby pond. Then there are the regulars to my yard: cardinals, chickadees, sparrows, robins, mockingbirds, carolina wrens, downy woodpeckers, juncos, blue jays, mourning doves, crows, starlings, and squirrels.

It's odd, though...I've not seen any titmice lately. I wonder if they were hit hard by West Nile?

[Kire]

42. I saw a cardinal today.

Bright red in the middle of a desolate swamp outside my house. I felt good.

[LeftyMom]

44. Lots of hawks, rats, squirrels and pidgeons

I have to go out to the boonies tomorrow, I'll probably just see more hawks (we see loads of them in town anyhow) and bugs approaching the windshield of doom though.

Oh, and the local ducks should be home soon.

[pinniped]

45. Pinnipeds, red-tailed hawks, brown pelicans, California gulls,...

and cormorants.

[tjwmason]

46. A couple of birds and some squirrels

In spring and summer I can frequently see rabbits from my office window playing outside; but everything's still hiding away at the moment.

There are loads of squirrels round here but they're are all the foreign (American) interlopers. Grey squirrels are taking over from our native red squirrels.

[jdonaldball]

47. cockroaches

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

51. They can be pretty wild!

[buddhamama]

48. an Eagle, deer, turkeys, hawks, crows,

an ermine and more. I live in Maine, it is not unusual to see wildlife daily.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

49. I'm in New York and have seen turkey vultures, squirrels, deer,

and crows. There are others in the woods but haven't seen them this week.

[shesemsmom]

52. Geese

lots of them heading south

[BiggJawn]

53. Deer, Rabbits, Blue Heron, Hawks, maybe a Carp today...

We're having flooding. I expect to see fish flopping down the sidewalk on campus before this is over...

[Samurai_Writer]

54. south florida here...

squirrels, hawks, herons, cranes, ducks, alligators, lizards, snakes, spiders... not too many cute and fuzzy wild things around here.

[Dzimbowicz]

55. Outside my house I have seen

hares, a flock of quail (one of which was grabbed by a hawk :( ) and I even hear a hoot owl at night.

Yesterday, I had a 120 pound Siberian Husky visit my classroom; it belongs to one of my students who weighs no more than 100 pounds (my estimate) and stands only 5'1". What makes this dog so unusual and a good "show and tell" star, is that I am a German teacher and this dog only understands German. The student who owns the dog is from Germany and all the students loved him. This student also brought in her other two dogs which are tiny (and, I mean tiny) Pomeranians, one of which rode on the back of the husky. It was like the Letterman Show in my class, but the animals only responded to commands in German which added an element of fun for the kids. :)


BTW, I want to post a photo of this dog, but I cannot figure out how to do it. Can anyone help me? I have tried copying and pasting, but that does not work.

[hlthe2b]

56. Outside my office window: a rabbit and earlier, a stalking coyote...

I was debating what to do, if the coyote got close, but the rabbit appears to have outwitted him!

Routinely, deer.... Just missed seeing a Mountain Lion by a half hour as one was spotted out in Golden very close to where I was. (But, being that I was on foot, with my dog, not seeing it was probably a very good thing!)

[StopTheMorans]

57. i saw a few punks and goths on my way home from class in central square

monday night :shrug:

[China_cat]

58. I live in a city

and we have a possum that lives out back.

[Phentex]

59. Just birds and squirrels.

[livinginphotographs]

60. A possum. Some deer.

I was driving by wal-mart the other day and saw a pack of rednecks. Very interesting creatures. I think they wear those colorful nascar t-shirts in order to attract mates.

[Zomby Woof]

61. Saw a jackrabbit hopping across my parking lot the other day

Out traipsing in the snow.:-)

[semillama]

62. Lately, not much.

I live in a city, so it's pretty much the same thing every day:

Pigeons
Squirrels
House Sparrows
Starlings
Red-tailed Hawks

I have seen some other things, though, just not lately (This is stuff all seen in the city limits, not during a birdwatching trip or anything):

in the summer, i usually see Turkey Vultures.
I've seen Ring-Billed Gulls flying very high over the office
I've had a House Finch land on my office window sill
Red-bellied Woodpecker in tree outside my house, Carolina Chickadees, Blue Jays, Northern Cardinals.
Sharp-shinned Hawk in a city park
Barn and Cliff Swallows feeding off a bridge that crosses a river.

I've seen tons of stuff in the metroparks, but I wanted to list the things I have seen just doing normal city activities.

[Butterflies]

64. a cardinal and some squirrels

[clyrc]

66. just this morning I saw a donkey, a few camels and lots of goats

I don't know how wild or tame they were, but the donkey especially was in the middle of nowhere. Thursday is the first day of the weekend where I live, so we were going to the hot springs for some relaxation. We drove through the desert and desert-y mountians, and saw all the above mentioned animals.

[jus_the_facts]

67. In northeast Louisiana...'possums...ducks...geese...squirrels....

....a bunny rabbit...lot's o'birdies...and a couple raccoons. :)

[Debbi801]

68. deer, raccoons, red fox, bunnies, squirrels, and all sorts of birds.

[Jessica]

70. Bobcat ...

They look cute, but ... :scared: ... When I see one in the woods, I don't make any sudden movements.

[greendog]

73. Lots of big fat ravens feasting on roadkill...

...and a herd of elk, probably 60 or so...about a week ago. I see redtail hawks all the time.

[NNadir]

74. Here in my part of New Jersey we have wild turkeys, too many deer,

foxes, groundhogs, a few coyotes, and last year, a few much remarked upon black bears who liked taking down bird feeders and were frequently photographed doing so. (They also ate some local sheep.)

We have turkey vultures, mice, rabbits, rats (yes rats), hawks, cardinals, snowy owls (gorgeous animals in the night) and other owls. We have a ton of birds that I can't name.

We need wolves, but I don't think we'll get them.

With the exception of the bears, and maybe the coyotes (which I've heard), I'm sure I've seen at least one example of each of the animals in the last two months. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and the deer in my yard are as numerous as groupies at a 1960's Rolling Stones concert.

[Dave Reynolds]

77. I saw 3 deer...

..but they were in my headlights at 70 mph...YIKES.

Luckily for all of us there was no contact.

[tk2kewl]

79. Seals

If you click this link beware. The video sucks and might make you seasick. http://www.yellowfinmusic.com/images/seal.wmv

Near Jones Beach, Long Island just before Christmas

[Floogeldy]

80. Spider. Squirrel.

[Cadence]

81. How the hell is this thread still alive?

I've posted really funny stuff and they die lonely deaths... But THIS makes it three days? :eyes:

*shakes head* I just don't get it. :shrug:

[B Calm]

82. I haven't seen any wild cows, but I had a opossum run out in

front of my truck last night.

[ofrfxsk]

83. I hope this works...

I'm not sure how to post a picture but here goes. I took this picture this morning. I think it's a Northern Flicker. I should have added that, yes, I am a huge dork. I feed the boids and the sqoils and occasionally take pictures of them. Sue me. :P

[Cadence]

86. Hey that's cool!

[AmyJCNJ]

84. dogs, cats, rats, pigeons

What can I say? I live in a city.

[Little Wing]

85. Racoons, opposums, deer, elk, moose, fishies...

lots of critters hereabouts.

[Eugene]

87. Hawks, vultures, rabbits, beavers, squirrels, and ducks.

Northeastern Massachusetts.