Poll of the Day > What kind of wildlife do you have near your house?

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By near, I mean animals you see in your own yard and immediate surroundings. If you can identify animal scat but haven't actually seen the animal, that works. Pigeons and squirrels are almost a given, but include whatever you can think of.

For me:

Spotted on my property:

Pigeons
Squirrels
Chipmunks
Hummingbirds
Groundhogs
Skunks
Rabbits
Shrews
Cardinals
Blue Jays
Robins
Hawks
Crows
Possum
Mice
Various other birds

In my immediate neighborhood:

Deer
Foxes
Coyote

If I can think of more or figure out more specific bird species I'll post them later.

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Very little, I wish there was more.

There's plenty of sparrows (or similar tiny borbs), a few magpies, seagulls are pretty common and we even have a dedicated pelican landing zone... they hang out on the same spot every year.

i've seen a chipmunk/squirrel or two, not sure which. There's also a few rabbits.

That's about it... excluding bugs, of course

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Squirrels
rabbits
a fat raccoon I saw
cardinals
normal birds
underground bees

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Deer
Adders (these have killed small dogs that get walked on cannock chase)
rabbits
badgers
foxes
Pheasants


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Pigeons, mice, cats.
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i live on the 14th floor of an apartment building in the city so not much. one time we saw a squirrel running around on our balcony though. still not sure how he got all the way up there

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In addition to the common critters (mice, squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs, skunks, house sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals, bluejays, woodpeckers (downy and red-bellied), titmice, juncos, hummingbirds, robins, mourning doves, catbirds, red-wing blackbirds, grackles, goldfinches), we also get occasional visits from crows, deer, and wild turkeys.

I've lived here nearly my whole life, but the turkeys only started coming around several years ago. These days it's common in the spring time for them to come with their little ones, going after anything that's fallen from the birdfeeders and scratching around for any other tidbits and raiding the mulberry tree.

Not at all regular visitors, but I've also seen rose-breasted grosbeaks, Carolina wrens, starlings, opossums, and red-tailed hawks (once one drove a mourning dove into my window, making a kill at the cost of the glass. The defiant stare it gave me when I poked my head out to see what the hell happened was just too perfect, and all was forgiven).

Also, this happened once.


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Long-nosed dragon (running lizard with a super long tail and yellow stripes), coolest thing ever
House geckos
Spur-throated locusts
Bull ants
Frogs
Cockroaches
Hornets/Wasps
Birds
Spiders
Moths
Peacock (for some reason one of our neighbours has one)

There are tons of venomous snakes here (Western Australia) but I haven't seen a single one in the wild yet, and I've only seen one large spider so far.
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Far-Queue posted...

By near, I mean animals you see in your own yard and immediate surroundings. If you can identify animal scat but haven't actually seen the animal, that works. Pigeons and squirrels are almost a given, but include whatever you can think of.

For me:

Spotted on my property:

Pigeons
Squirrels
Chipmunks
Hummingbirds
Groundhogs
Skunks
Rabbits
Shrews
Cardinals
Blue Jays
Robins
Hawks
Crows
Possum
Mice
Various other birds

In my immediate neighborhood:

Deer
Foxes
Coyote

If I can think of more or figure out more specific bird species I'll post them later.

Everything you mentioned plus bald eagles, armadillos, raccoons, mountain lions, bobcats, feral pigs and bears

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Raccoon, opossum, squirrels, cardinals, bluejays, robins. crows, pigeons, mice, once in awhile small snakes and fox.

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Spotted Ligma
Pygmy Bofa
Shiny Gulpin
Bushy Tailed Sugma
Imagine Dragon

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Mostly birds. Cardinals, robins, wrens, depending on the season. Have seen foxes a few times, deer once or twice, and skunks on a regular basis.

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geckos

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Lots of birds.
rabbits.
squirrels.
ferrel cats.
duckbears.
possum.
racoon.
mice.
and one time a very confused, young deer wandered into my yard.

I live in an apartment building, not a house, but I mostly see birds and squirrels around, with the occasional chipmunk

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The usual, I throw food out for this one fox but so do some other neighbors as well cause he's kinda fat.

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Squirrels, groundhog, feral cats. Inside the city limits so not allowed to shoot the cats that scratch cars, spread fleas, tear up and strew garbage all over the neighborhood.

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Birds of all kinds including pigeons, doves, bluejays, bluebirds, cardinals, finches, swallows, owls, woodpeckers, hawks, vultures, eagles, geese, bobwhites, pheasants, partridges, turkeys, juncos, robins, sparrows, wrens, grackles, and nuthatches.

Toads

Snakes

Field mice, brown rats, squirrels, ground squirrels, woodchucks, rabbits, foxes, coyotes, raccoons, opossums, feral cats, and white-tailed deer. Bobcats are supposed to be native but I've never seen one. Not wild but there's also plenty of cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, horses and donkeys in the area.

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A lot of birds but I'm not familiar enough to identify anything other than ducks, humming birds and woodpeckers. Deer, raccoons, foxes, squirrels, frogs, and toads are pretty common. There also used to be an animal preserve nearby so we used to have the occasional escaped peacock or goat show up in the yard.

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Squirrels, birds, mice, deer, raccoons, ground hogs, possums, coywolves, feral cats.

TheWitchMorgana posted...

i live on the 14th floor of an apartment building in the city so not much. one time we saw a squirrel running around on our balcony though. still not sure how he got all the way up there

They are pretty adept at climbing walls, especially if it is textured.

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Far-Queue posted...

What kind of wildlife do you have near your house?

I live on the outskirts of my city so plenty of countryside wildlife makes it's way onto my garden. Not as much as before given all the cats I get on my garden but still:

Robins
Magpies
Pigeons
Sparrows
Crows
Mice
Hedgehogs
Badgers
Frogs/Toads
Insects (moths, butterflies, spiders, worms, ants)
Stray cats
Spotted a fox, bats and owls several times near my house.

That's all for now.

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Anoles (American chameleons)
Tree frogs
Spotted toads
Stray cats

I get the occasional raccoon and opossum these days. Though it's a rare occurrence, sometimes a turtle or a snake shows up in my backyard.

Over at my parents' place in Lake City, I've seen foxes and deer.

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Some squirrels and a lot of stray cats. Where I used to live usually had bunnies. They were adorable.

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