# Wild, wild suburban New Jersey: wildlife I've seen this week

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**Created:** [June 10, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wild-wild-suburban-new-jersey-wildlife-ive-seen-this-week/757066 "2016-06-10T23:27:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wild-wild-suburban-new-jersey-wildlife-ive-seen-this-week/757066/1 "2016-06-10T23:27:48Z")

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It’s been an exciting week in wildlife spotting this week in Jersey! I’ve spotted the following just since Monday in my yard/neighbors’ yards:

-Two grown bunnies and two babies (prolly a bunny family?)  
-Three woodpeckers (pecking on my oak and at the neighbor’s gutters – boy, was THAT loud!)  
-A very small turtle (front garden)  
-A very large 4-point deer  
-About 34,655 squirrels  
-Two raccoons  
-Several cardinals and bluejays  
-An itty bitty snake  
-An opossum  
-A bat (this guy has been returning to roost under the porch eaves for the last thee summers – at least I think it’s Rodgrigo Van Battenheim returned again)  
-A gigantic turkey vulture (pecking at a deer carcass on the corner)  
-A small hippo with velvet fur. Oh, wait, that was my pit bull puppy 😃

How about you? Any interesting sightings of late?