Fairly common:
Squirrels, squirrels, squirrels!
Some raccoons
Opossums
House finches
Goldfinches, in the winter
Chickadees
Robins
Cardinals
Titmouses/meeses/mice?
Blue jays
Mockingbirds
Crows
Yellow-bellied sapsuckers
Tree frogs (well, when I was a kid - don’t know if they’re not around anymore or if I’m just not looking)
Snapping turtles
White tailed deer
Giant golf course bullfrogs
Garden spiders
Giant cockroaches that fly
Bunny rabbits
Ibises, egrets, various water birds
Gulls in the Wal-Mart parking lot
Less common:
Hawks - there was I think a red tailed one on my block a year ago, but it moved on - I did see it score a huge rabbit not more than ten feet from me, though
Bald eagles, if you hit the swamps
Gators - there are some in the Columbia Canal now!
Foxes - seen one once, ever
I’m in central NC. Besides the more common stuff already mentioned, we have:
Bluebirds (LOTS of them) Five-lined skinks - really beautiful little critters. They live under our decks.
Lots of spiders - including the golden orb spider. Huge spiders with huge webs that have a golden sheen in the morning light.
Black snakes - ours tend to be very laid back
We also have a bat that lives in the loft in the garage, but I don’t know what kind it is. There are quite a few species in this area.
Coyote
Deer
Wolves
Eagles - there’s one in my smoking courtyard at work!
Some other kind of bird that sits on top of the light poles along the expressways - I can’t think of it’s name but it’s really really big and eats field mice.
Geese. God, the geese. There are far too MANY geese.
Skunk
Mice
Turkey (friends have a turkey farm)
Horses (but they are at farms and tracks and stuff)
Racoons
Opposums
Squirrels
Bats
Groundhogs
Chipmunks
Turtles
Frogs
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Uh - there are lots of other things too but I forget what they are. And my mom in Prescott has Javelinas!! I think that would be cool - to look outside and see a Javelina.
No one beats Colibri in this thread. I live in the city, and so see city wildlife – house sparrows, starlings, squirrels, racoons, skunks, rats, house mice, the occasional possum, etc. However, the office is in an industrial landscape by the water, so I can throw in some aquatic birds as well – gulls of various kinds, cormorants, terns, Canada Geese. And, somewhat unusually this summer, I saw a flock of piping plovers feeding at the water’s edge.
But you forgot the mockingbirds, the tree frogs, and the toads.
My neighborhood also has a couple of guineafowl who I think belong to a family down the street. Quite entertaining watching them roam the yards whenever they get out. And I see bald eagles whenever I go up to my dad’s in extreme northern Pasco.
What Shib and Bambi listed, plus iron-head cranes and several smaller species of birds not listed. Also, moles, gophers (pocket and tortoise), a huge variety of non-poisonous snakes and a few poisonous (rattlesnake, moccasins). And tourists. And snowbirds.
Squirrels
Rabbits
Raccoons
Opossums
Woodchucks
Skunks
Saw an otter once
The occassional fox
Lot of coyote around here but they’re shy. I see them sometimes
Beaver
Muskrat
White-tailed deer
A host of birds but I couldn’t name most except the most obvious. But, on the larger side, we have hawks out here (one was in my tree eating my squirrel the other day), herons, crows, geese, egrets (I think they’re egrets), etc.
By my house:
Deer
Squirrels
Rabbits
Coyote
Long-haired teens
Red-tailed Hawks
Geese
NASCAR fans
Starlings
Robins
Turtles
Frogs
Toads
Opossum (these last three always wind up in my window well)
Wolf spiders
Black widow spiders
Field mice
Bats
Downtown:
Rats
Foul-smelling street people
Pigeons
Drunken bar patrons
Cockroaches
Back-stabbing co-workers
I live in rural south Georgia, swamp/river/pineland/hardwoods. I live IN the woods and commute to a small city. I have seen the following:
Rattlesnakes (timber and diamond back)
moccasins
various non poisonous snakes, most significantly, Indigo snakes
box turtles
snapping turtles
gopher tortoise
all manner of bird, including pileated woodpeckers, various hawks, osprey, anhingas, buzzards, owls and eagles
white tailed deer
bobcat
coyotes
the very occasionally panther (cougar)
bear
possum
raccoon
fox squirrel
gray squirrel
red fox
grey fox
armadillo
pocket gopher
weasels
otter
That’s a good list to start. I see wildlife everyday.
Hawk
I’ve got tons of Cooper’s Hawks near where I live–I think every Cooper’s hawk west of the plains spends the winter in Albuquerque. Starlings, kingbirds, sparrows, finches, and even hummingbirds harrass them at every available opportunity.
We also have :
Sandhill cranes
Canada and snow geese
Mallards
Ring Neck Ducks
Widgeons
Coots
Pied billed grebes
chickadees (mountain and black capped)
goldfinches
flickers
Kestrels
Ravens
Crows
quail
pheasants
hundreds of white crowned sparrows
rock squirrels
jackrabbits
desert cottontails
skunks
raccoons
occasional bears
coyotes
coyotes with mange, also known as chupacabras
weasels
Prairie dogs
During droughts bobcats and cougars sometimes come to town looking to eat domestic cats.
The last place I lived was right on the edge of the desert, there were kangaroos everywhere, they used to sit in the shade of my balcony.
And the university I go to at the moment doubles as a kangaroo wildlife preserve, so they’re all around. Its hard explaining to all the foreign exchange students that no, this is really bizzare, 99% of australians don’t have kangaroos hopping around where they work/goto school/live.
Bird life abounds in my backyard. Blackbirds, mynas, butcherbirds, lorikeets, white cockatoos, friggin’ pidgeons and seagulls of course.
I’ve got possums that eat my parsley (but funnily enough leave the silver-beet, spinach and zucchini alone) in my veggie garden. Big buggers they are too…they’re the brush-tail variety rather than the little ring-tail possums that I used to have in the inner suburbs.
The rest of the wildlife is of the human species. My local ‘centre’ for those who know the region is Frankston. It’s got some wonderful zoological specimens for study if yer’ feeling brave etc. Far more interesting than the possums and seagulls really. Hehehehehe.
Animals I see almost daily -
various birds (ibis, pied crow, guineafowl, songbirds, etc)
quagga (zebra - well, almost-quagga)
various antelope including gazelle, grysbok & gnu
Animals I see at least fairly regularly:
lizards
snakes
mongoose
squirrels
various small rodents -mice & rats
sundry raptors - hawks, kites, harriers
kingfishers
waterfowl
Animals I see less regularly, but often enough to count, within easy reach of me:
Other antelope
Cheetahs
Mole Rats (not the Naked kind, though)
Dassies (Hyrax)
seals
whales (Southern Right)
Great White sharks (from the shore, of course!)
penguins
I drove out to our transmitter yesterday afternoon to check on some things; enroute I spotted several antelope, cottontails and jackrabbits, and (rare these days) a lone coyote. We see so much wildlife around here we rarely notice it, unless it flashes into our headlights. Skunks, foxes, all kinds of rabbits, mule deer. There are a few beaver coming back to the lower reaches of the South Platte. We frequently see chickenhawks, golden eagles and owls.
I live in a little subdivision right by a major lake in Florida. Of course we have lots of wild life but the neatest thing is the five or six pairs of sandhill cranes and one pair of whooping cranes we have that wander around the community. We were very worried about our whooping crane couple after the hurricanes but they did come back and we see them regularly. They are tagged and I guess someone is keeping an eye on them.
The sandhill cranes are a constant and they tend to like my lawn for some reason. If you’ve never seen these things wandering around, they are HUGE. Four or five feet tall and it is like a person walking past your window when you see them out of the corner of your eye.
They run the neighborhood and will wander up and down our little street in the middle of the road knowing we will all wait for them to get where they are going.
Smelly squished skunks
Deer (thus the new front-end on my vehicle and my neighbour’s vehicle)
Smelly squished skunks
Moose (thus my friend being a widow)
Smelly squished skunks
Bear (thus my right front wheel needing alignment)
Smelly squished skunks
Ravens
Seagulls
Bald eagles
Various hawks
An occasional lynx
An occasional wolf
An occasional racoon up from the south
And smelly squished skunks
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