Your local wildlife
Country or city, there's always the plenty of animals. What kind of wildlife do you have around you?
We have tons of wildlife here, but we're pretty isolated:
Deer, mountain lion, coyotes, armadillos, rattlesnakes, roadrunners, chipmunks (outside my window), doves, hawks, porcupines, skunks, jackrabbits, tarantulas, scorpions .. . No bear though, I don't think. Probably a whole lot more that I can't think of right now.
black bears, red fox, gray fox, coyotes, mtn lion (reportedly), white tail deer, rabbits, porcupine, fishers, bobcats, bald eagles, many different hawks, osprey, turkey, grouse, mourning dove, skunks, opossum, Canada geese... I have not yet personally seen the mtn lion or the fisher.
a fisher is some kind of weasle or otter?
A really big weasle. I can't wait to see one.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/outdoors/s_493740.html
I saw two very cute little red foxes on my way home tonight, fortunately there are two chicken flocks between them and mine.
black bears, red fox, gray fox, coyotes, mtn lion (reportedly), white tail deer, rabbits, porcupine, fishers, bobcats, bald eagles, many different hawks, osprey, turkey, grouse, mourning dove, skunks, opossum, Canada geese... I have not yet personally seen the mtn lion or the fisher.
Similar to griff, but no mt lions, never seen a gray fox.
... Heron, groundhogs, beavers, snapping turtles, rainbow trout, lots of black and garter snakes, few rattlers, deer tick, brown recluse spider, mosquitoes...
they seem to be pretty nasty, aggressive creatures
we have black widows and brown recluses. I'd rather not consider them wildlife. In fact, I'd rather not consider them at all!
Tons of deer in the backyard. They're giving birth right now so often we see the pregnant mothers laying in the shade and a few days later a new little spotted guy running around. Besides them, wild turkeys about a mile away, mallard ducks, foxes, raccoons, geese, cardinals, blue jays, and frogs that like to commit suicide underneath the lawnmower.
I'd like to see cardinals and blue jays. They don't come around here. Well, maybe not the blue jays, I grew up with those. We have grackles here.
Suburb-type situation here. Nothing but the usual songbirds, occasional opossum or skunk. We get the squirrels and wabbits, too. Had a hawk on the light pole the other morning.
Sidenote: A few summers ago some friends and I were going fishing. I found a rock that let me recline at just the right angle, with just my head outta the water from the chin up. It was HOT, and I told the pals 'I'll be right here when you float back downstream.' I was relaxing big time when I heard something in the leaves on the bank behind me.
Slowly I turned.
Two feet away was either a pine marten or a fisher. Scared the hell outta both of us. He may still be running.
We have squirrels, bunnies, ducks, and geese. Crows, and cardinals, and lots of little birds. We live in an urban area. And I have a wild cat living in my house.
I live in the country, loads of farmland around but there are few large wild mammals here, a few roe deer, some badgers and plenty of foxes are about as big as you are likely to see and the most dangerous animal you are likely to come across is a bumblebee.
The complete stereotype of Australia (boring, boring, boring)...kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and once in a while an emu or two can be found about 12km from the city in the hills just above the suburbs. Possums are pretty much in any fruit or oak tree you come across (well, perhaps that's a slight exaggeration) and in chimneys and the occasional blue tongue lizard turns up in the backyard or on the doorstep.
Depends on what you mean by "around here"
I've never seen a deer in my immediate neighborhood, but I've seen them in Arlington County a few blocks away. Suburbs here. A good 30 miles from the country side. There are coyote in Arlington, but I've never seen one personally.
In my neighborhood, I've personally seen:
mice
rats
chipmunks
squirrels
flying squirrels
bats
snakes
bunnies
box turtles
opossums
raccoons
red fox
bald eagle
hawks
tons of other birds (mix of water birds and inland)
Immediatly around me there are Herons,hawks, geese,ducks,squirrels,nutria<- eww
The barn swallows are making a nest under the buildings eaves.
There used to be deer and fox around here but they have had to compete with residential sprawl and the traffic.
Last year there were a few reported sightings of mountain lions in outlaying rural areas.
Bunny family sighting at a gas station down the road once. I am not sure why they crossed the street from the park where they live to eat the grass at on the other side of the street unless it was just ...that..much..greener.
Does it have a collar? Because mine ran away.
Well we have many here.
Yours is probably conveneing with its mates. Chupacabra central..They run wild here with no collars. I do look forward to domesticating a couple of the beasts.