What wild animals do you see more-or-less routinely (and where do you live)?

In My Humble Opinion
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Wye Valley, South West England on the Welsh border. Semi-rural.

Birds. I’m not up on my birds, but there’s a lot – very large fat healthy wood pigeons, ducks, geese, swans (am by a river), pheasants and grouse (in hunting season). Peregrine Falcons, Buzzards, Goshawks, Red Kites, and Sparrowhawks, Ospreys. Various little ones, sparrows, robins, larks, blackbirds and the like. Some large brutish black jays that sit on my roof and would like to nest in my chimney (have blocked them).

Furries. Deer (don’t ask me what sort), foxes, badgers (generally as roadkill), mice, voles, grey squirrels, there’s Wild Boar in the nearby Forest of Dean although I haven’t seen one. I saw a hedgehog not long ago. My grass lawn shows evidence of moles.

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Skunks; rarely seen, but often smelled.

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Very common: Squirrels, assorted LBBs

Less common: Canada geese, skunks (smelt more often than seen), turkeys

Uncommon: Raccoons, woodchucks, cardinals, robins

Daughter saw a deer in our back yard once. There are bobcats and coyotes in the area, but I haven’t seen any. Haven’t seen any rabbits, but they leave a lot of tracks in the snow in our yard. Haven’t been on Lower Base since I retired, but I assume the nuclear swans are swimming in the river.


Coastal Connewcticut

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I forgot to mention skunks in my earlier posts, too. I don’t think I’ve seen a skunk in the wild in years, but during a typical summertime, I probably smell skunk musk a half-dozen times.

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“LIttle Brown Birds,” for those who aren’t birders (I’m married to one, which is why I know the acronym). Various sparrows, wrens, finches, etc. get lumped in here, as unless you know what you’re looking for, or get a really good view of them, they can be difficult to distinguish from each other.

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Upper Texas Coast

Mammals: Dolphins, feral hogs(if they count as ‘wild’ animals) coyotes, armadillos, raccoons, possums, squirrels

Birds: Great blue herons, egrets (snowy, great, and reddish), white ibis, Pelicans (white and brown), Various gulls, sandpipers, cattle egrets, crested caracaras (maybe not often), ospreys, kestrels, peregrine falcons, red-tailed hawks, geese and ducks in winter, grackles, blue jays, cardinals, hummingbirds, and lots of little brown birds. Every couple of years I get a few robins in the winter, but when they are around I see them every day.

Reptiles: Alligators, kingsnakes, saltmarsh snakes, rat snakes, garter snakes, legless lizards, skinks, spiny lizards, green anoles, a couple varieties of geckos, ‘box’ turtles, redeared turtles, green sea turtles.

Amphibians: Toads, green treefrogs, leopard frogs.

A good chunk of the above are seen mostly while fishing in my kayak in the back bays, or the Gulf surf, but since I fish at least a couple of days per week, I think it’s regular enough for this thread. I’m not even going to try to list the varieties of fish.

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In MN: Eagles and redtail hawks. I know there are other raptors in this area, but haven’t gone birding for them. Wild turkeys in the 'hood.

Squirrels, of course. I would be shocked if there were not racoons, coyotes and other scavengers, as they’re common in urban areas. Dead deer on the highways.

I miss Alaska. We often had moose in our yard, especially in winter, and the occasional bear and fox. You could see beluga whales, bears and Dall sheep along the southbound highway, and lynx up in the hills above Anchorage if you were lucky.

In Portland we had possums, racoons, and coyotes pretty regularly. On the trail in the wildlife reserve a few blocks from us, there were deer, osprey, etc. We routinely had northern flickers, scrub jays, woodpeckers and Anna’s hummers at our feeders.