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At least from my point of view.

I got a reminder tonight (not that I need many) about why I'm glad I moved to Colorado. I live in Colorado Springs, not a huge city, but not small either and I don't live on the outskirts, but in the northern part of the city, close to the Air Force Academy. It was after dark and I was taking out the trash. I got a few feet from the dumpster and caught a movement out of the corner of my eye so I turned to see what it was. A small herd of deer (I counted eight) was walking through the parking lot. They each turned to look at me, then, without signs of alarm, walked on. At the closest, I was about 10 feet from them.

When I lived in California, I saw coyotes, skunks, possums and raccoons, but never any deer.

What kind of wildlife do you have where you are?

foxes...and pigeons

oh and I forgot about the black panthers :cool:

I live in California, and I used to see deer all the time. But I moved out of the forest and now all I see are feral cats and some raccoons.

deer

cows (they seeem wild when they walk across the yard)

snakes

lizards

horny toads

skunks

squirrels

turkeys

tortoise

muskrat (or something like it)

various and sundry birds

i live in the woods.

We get a lot of wild turkey and deer.

.. and rabbits.. and squirrels.

Those four are most common, but I've seen quails, skunks, groundhogs, lots of woodland creatures. Too lazy to think.

At least from my point of view.

I got a reminder (not that I need many) about why I'm glad I moved to Colorado tonight. I live in Colorado Springs, not a huge city, but not small either and I don't live on the outskirts, but in the northern part of the city, close to the Air Force Academly. It was after dark and I was taking out the trash. I got a few feet from the dumpster and caught a movement out of the corner of my eye so I turned to see what it was. A small herd of deer (I counted eight) was walking through the parking lot. They each turned to look at me, then, without signs of alarm, walked on. At the closest, I was about 10 feet from them.

When I lived in California, I saw coyotes, skunks, possums and raccoons, but never any deer.

What kind of wildlife do you have where you are?

When I was in Cal. I ended up less than 10 ft from a deer. walking through the woods, I herd something crash through the underbrush. a yong deer came out and skidded to a halt infront of me. we both looked at each other with a kinda WTF moment, then it turned and walked away. I guess it got tangled in the brush and just plowed through... not expecting me to be on the other side. :p

here we have mongoose... heh *remembers playing a variant of whack a mole with them.*

imagine a good sized feild overgrown with grass. in the feild were several mongoose. one popped his head up to look around, then pop back down. I, outside the feild stood up to see what the movement was. I crouched back down and two popped their heads up in reaction to my movement. I stood up again and went back down. Then four heads popped up... then me, then two, etc... it went on for several minutes before I got too tired to continue.

Right now, I'm typing with one hand because my Right hand is in a tank tryng to get a crayfish used to me enough so I can pick it up without a net (Its too big for my net.)

Since I live in a city - foxes and hedgehogs, sparrows and their chums the sparrow hawks, erm, other birds, geese, also ducks down in the park, about 30 frogs that enjoy loving in our pond, and cats, dogs et al.

In the nearby area - bats, BADGERS (v. important for the survival of British Values), rabbits and people from Hull.

Lots. Deer, moose, buffalo, wild horses, black bears, wolves, coyotes, lynx, eagles (golden & bald), hawks (mostly red-tail), beavers, muskrats, a ton of chickens and rabbits to run over... Those are the most notable. I live in the sticks of northern Alberta so it's all wild up here.

*snip*

Deer are pretty common here, but unfortunately I usually see them only when they are on the road, dead.
Plenty of squirrels, too. When I was in London, I was excited because I saw so many chipmunks, which I guess are more common there. The people around me weren't paying any attention to the chipmunks, though, because someone had seen a squirrel.

I've seen deer, owls, squirrels, chipmunks, turtles, toads, numerous smaller birds, and a variety of snakes (mostly poisonous). There are also a smattering of bears, foxes, weasels, pine marten, beavers, rabbits, muskrats, woodchucks, eagles, turkey vultures, wolves, and mountain lions, which I've never encountered. Since I live in a relatively urban area, wildlife sightings are rare and the subject of photography and long memories, whereas in the mountains they'd probably be occasion to "git me mah shawtgun, boy!"

My parents had raccoons, rabbits, families of skunks (so cute waddling across the yard all in a row), foxes, squirrels, beavers, hummingbirds, hawks, bats, deer by the truckload, ducks, geese, bears, the occasional horse that would wander away from a farm down the road and once a one ring circus with aerialists, jugglers, clowns, and an MC all show up in their back yard.

Deer, squirrels (I'm stuffing one for taxidermy in wildlife management class at school), rabbits, pheasants,raccoons, possums, coyetes,skunks and most types of north american ducks.

I live out in the middle of nowhere, so we have wildlife up to yingyang. Deer are the most common by far, but occasionally you get lucky and see a bobcat. Of course, that same encounter can kill you, but we try not to think about that rummaging through the woods in the middle of the night.

Also, MSU is famous for the Red Ceder ducks and hundreds of squirrels on campus. Not nearly as exciting.

When we lived in Northglenn, we were right next to an open space, and a fox lived there with her kits. Once, I was walking home from the bus stop, jabbering on my phone, when I happened to look down and saw the poor fox, frozen in the middle of the road, trying to decide if I was a predator or not. I stopped, bowed, and told her that I didn't mean to scare her. She scampered off, and I had an interesting story to tell my friend on the other end of the phone, who was very confused.

Last week, Stranger (our cat) caught a bat. It got away, and spent about twenty minutes swooping around the living room before redwulf shooed it out the bathroom window. I shrieked. A lot. Like a little girl.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, and I had to stop in the middle of the road to let a whole freakin' flock of wild turkeys pass. And I've managed not to run over a deer in fifteen or so years of Michigan driving...

Birds, mostly. I live in a city.

Ok, Crayfish moved... and she only pinched me twice! :p

wildlife...

in Hawaii...

the Nene... a nice enough bird. Too bad it's illegal to get too close to them (endangered)

Sea Lions... wonderfully graceful creatures in the water... too bad it's illegal to get too close to them (endangered)

Sea Turtles... great visitors in our waters... Too bad it's illegal to get too close to them (endangered)

watching whales play... at a distance because... (let's you finish sentence)

wild peacocks... lovely bird, look at the plummage...

the rest... Mynahs are fun. especially when you can get them to mimic human speech. :p

I live in California too and I practically have to chase the damn muledeer off the hood of my car with a stick when I work an evening shift. Bloody pests is what they are. Especially during mating season, when the bucks are hopped up to the gills with hormones and will try to stare down your car rather than get out of the way.

In slightly less annoying animal sightings, I got to see a golden eagle today. That was pretty awesome. Normally all we have is about seven billion turkey vultures.

Foxes, coyotes, wolves, bears, cougars, elk, moose, deer, grouse, beavers. That's the fancy ones, anyways. I've seen 7 of the listed IRL.

What kind of wildlife do you have where you are?
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Frogs, moose, bears (of many types), wolves, fox, ravens, bunnies ... lotsa small creatures too.


EDIT - ah, ducks! Thanks Sark!

we have a ton of mallard ducks in the back yard, as well as a family of wild turkeys.

Deer are pretty common, as are beavers, woodchucks, possums...we do get one Blue Heron every now and then, and I've seen a few wolves around.

Seen one bear, but they aren't really native to my area.


In Boston...pigeons, rats, and mice.

mostly squirrels and coyote and raccoons... rarely a deer will wander in.. I once saw a deer at my high school but~ I live in the city, so it's not as though we have cougars storming the streets XP

Heh. Deer are not exciting here - I've chased them out of my mother's garden more times than I can count. I've had fairly frequent encounters with all the usual mid-American wildlife - deer, rabbits, black snakes, possums, coyotes, foxes, wild turkeys, and so forth.

Oh, and of course there are the ticks and mosquitos. I encounter about a squintillion of them every summer when they compete to see which can consume more of my blood. Ah, the joys of country life...

Oh, and of course there are the ticks and mosquitos. I encounter about a squintillion of them every summer when they compete to see which can consume more of my blood. Ah, the joys of country life...
...and ALASKA life. *nods emphatically*

Even though I do technically live in the city, there is actualy alot of 'wild spots', that is areas that have been completely undeveloped that sit between the various developed areas and roads.

The following our animals I've encountered voer the last 12 years I've lived here;
-Cat's (Feral and domestic)
-Dog's (People don't tie them up, and wild ones)
-Squirrel's
-Bluejay's
-Woodpecker's
-Crow's
-Seagull's
-Possum's
-Mice
-Skunk (once)
-Raccoon's
-Frog's

There's probably more I can't think of to.

At least from my point of view.

I got a reminder tonight (not that I need many) about why I'm glad I moved to Colorado. I live in Colorado Springs, not a huge city, but not small either and I don't live on the outskirts, but in the northern part of the city, close to the Air Force Academy. It was after dark and I was taking out the trash. I got a few feet from the dumpster and caught a movement out of the corner of my eye so I turned to see what it was. A small herd of deer (I counted eight) was walking through the parking lot. They each turned to look at me, then, without signs of alarm, walked on. At the closest, I was about 10 feet from them.

When I lived in California, I saw coyotes, skunks, possums and raccoons, but never any deer.

What kind of wildlife do you have where you are?

I was wondering if they'd bother you guys down there. Up here I see deer every other day during the winter, and a herd of elk about every week.

Still pretty damned neat though.

lots and lots of deer where i grew up in the northern sierras in california. every time you went out of the house you'd see tons and tons of them if you walked quietly and looked arround a lot. once or twice a mountain lion.

lots and lots of smaller fry, what we called turkey buzzards in those days were quite common. i don't know if those are what is called the california condor or not. they had this kind of red wattle like a turkey has over their beak but where otherwise all black.

we had rattlie snakes come into our yard and our cats would kill them and bring us the heads and tails to show off their tropheys. lots of skunks and porkupines, pine martings, foxes. we lived mostly at a lower elevation then bears but up on the summit, the few years i lived up there, we saw those occassionally too.

i grew up mostly in the smaller town the railroad my dad worked for passed through. the one place we ever owned was about half a mile outside of a town of just about an even 1024 people. that was where i went to school from halfway through 3rd grade through half way through my senior year of highschool. that was colfax california. where i started kindergarten was truckee, back the year the train got snowed in, and graduated highschool in auburn. after that we lived on donner summit for a couple of years at a railroad town that existed there then called norden. there's still a post office there, there's ski areas on both sides of it, just the company houses are gone.

down here in this urbanized flatlands where i'm living now in roseville, we still see skunks and jack rabbits, and supposedly there are foxes arround somewhere. we had an oppossum in our yard one time too. the're mostly down here in the agricultural flatlands.

deer are still fairly common as far down as auburn. maybe down arround penryn and newcastle too.

human population in all of this are has i thing grown to about five times what it was when i was growing up, but up the hill there are still places where critters don't have to deal all the time with humans. so their easier to see all the time when you're there.

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i see lone foxes occasionally.

Coyotes, occasional deer, various birds.

Oh, and geese, lots and lots of mother fucking geese that have lost all fear of humans, litter the ground with their shit, foul up ponds, and block traffic.

Shit loads of foxes and badgers and different kinds of birds in my garden, kind of annoying sometimes actually. My sister lives in central London, and apparently loads of deer roam the park opposite her.

lots and lots of smaller fry, what we called turkey buzzards in those days were quite common. i don't know if those are what is called the california condor or not. they had this kind of red wattle like a turkey has over their beak but where otherwise all black.

Nope. California condors have only numbered in the low hundreds since the turn of the century and were extinct in the wild for about a decade starting in the late eighties (before the successful reintroduction program). Turkey vultures (or buzzards) are an extremely common sight across the west. Both birds are predominately black, but condors also have large white triangles under their wings and are about twice as big. The easiest way to tell the difference is that turkey vultures hold their wings in a slight V-shape while they're soaring and have a funny, abrupt "wobble" when they turn. Condors hold their wings very straight and make graceful banking turns.

foxes...and pigeons

oh and I forgot about the black panthers :cool:

Don't sweat them. Tell them you're voting for Obama, and they'll leave in peace.

In NoDak, especially Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park:

Pheasant (and these are easily the dumbest birds on the planet).
Bison (I've been as close as 30 yards, and that's as close as you'd ever want to get when you see how big they really are.)
Deer
Meadowlarks (lovely songs)
Wild rabbits
Antelope (and those things are FAST -- I startled a pair while hiking and in the time it took me to get my digital camera up and ready, they were at least a quarter-mile away and beyond my zoom lens' capacity to frame them well.)
Elk
Wild horses
Prairie dogs

At least from my point of view.

I got a reminder tonight (not that I need many) about why I'm glad I moved to Colorado. I live in Colorado Springs, not a huge city, but not small either and I don't live on the outskirts, but in the northern part of the city, close to the Air Force Academy. It was after dark and I was taking out the trash. I got a few feet from the dumpster and caught a movement out of the corner of my eye so I turned to see what it was. A small herd of deer (I counted eight) was walking through the parking lot. They each turned to look at me, then, without signs of alarm, walked on. At the closest, I was about 10 feet from them.

When I lived in California, I saw coyotes, skunks, possums and raccoons, but never any deer.

What kind of wildlife do you have where you are?

You are so screwed when the nukes start flyin'.

But yeah, over here we have...squirrels and stray-cats...and that's about it.

The city I live in now... deer, and other city-like creatures. Oh, and cougars up on the mountains.

The town I come from... deer, elk, bears (black and grizzly - I've seen both in my back yard), foxes, wolves, cougars, various birds and small rodents (squirrels, chipmunks, mice, etc.)...

I come from a little town in northern BC, Canada. Any northern-like animals I have probably been less than 20 feet from at some point. Except for the grizzly - that one I saw from afar, and thankfully. :p