ITT we list the animals we see regularly where we live

wild: bee, beetle, blackbird, crow, daddy longleg, duck, earthworm, frog, goose, hare, heron, horsefly, jackdaw, magpie, millipede, moorhen, mosquito, rabbit, raven, robin, slug, snail, spider, squirrel, stork, tit, wasp (and I can hear a woodpecker every now and then)

domesticated: cat, cow, dog, goat, horse, sheep

once i went outside at night and on the little tree downstairs from me there were two baby raccoons sitting (right on top of the tree) and lookin' rascally

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/himself.jpg

Took this pic this weekend.

Regularly seen in my backyard: Cat, groundhog, squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, skunk, blue jay, cardinal, sparrow, grackle, mourning dove, gold finch, red-headed woodpecker

In my house: cats, spiders, centipedes

In my neighborhood: Dogs, deer

See these guys every single day at the moment: dog, cat, fox, grey squirrel, rabbit, sparrow, robin, blackbird, robin, dunnock, goldfinch, herring gull, pigeon, jackdaw, magpie, jay, earthworm, slug, snail, woodlice, spider, bumblebee, flies, beetles, moths

Pigeon! Could have known I'd forget something.

Cardinals (Claude and Claudia are the mating pair that live in our back yard), mourning doves, redheaded woodpeckers, brown thrashers, mockingbirds (hundreds, thousands of mockingbirds), wrens, finches, blackbirds, crows, swifts that come out at dusk and echolocate for bugs, occasional chickadees, blue jays, bluebirds, hummingbirds, robins. A nonstop bird sanctuary down here. Bats, competing with the swifts at the mosquito buffet.

Lizards, toads, cute little brown snakes, beetles, roaches, spiders, mosquitoes and mosquito hawks...slugs, unfortunately...more critters than I have time to catalogue, really. Squirrels everywhere, including our attic.

Squirrels everywhere here too. Fortunately they don't come near the house. Because of the birds and bats that live in the attic. Also nearby are a ton of pigeons, blackbirds, ravens, magpies, some foxes, some robins, a couple of owls, and the occasional deer. Wild honey bees, slugs, moths, and the odd stag beetle (they look funny when they're flying, like a tiny alien with a jetpack).

The squirrel I see lives around the parking lot at work - I've only ever seen one (at once) when he/she runs away - seeing it today as I walked to my car was the inspiration for this thread :-)

dolphins, seals

this thread is like jon lewis crack. Why have i lived in brooklyn for 9 years ;_;

at work: squirrels, snakes, turkeys, geese, ducks, hawks, one (1) coyote, frogs

our office building is surrounded by state park and backs up onto a lake, so we get a lot of wildlife. in mating season the male turkeys will sit up on the fences around our building and flap around and perform to impress the layyyyyydies. they'll wander around the patio while you're eating lunch, nbd. constantly making way for ducks and geese crossing the street certain times of the year. it's kinda cool.

at home: squirrels, one (1) possum, evil bluejays, cats,

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got home & saw a wild mama turkey & like 4-5 lil baby turklets in the bushes right outside my back door & windows. it's p suburban around here, not that wooded, ive seen turks b4, just never this close & never babbys

A few weeks ago I watched a giant raccoon walk down a brightly lit sidewalk like a damn pedestrian. It crossed the street USING THE CROSSWALK, turned left, and continued down the sidewalk. This thing owned the neighborhood. No fear.

Which of course is the scariest kind of raccoon.

Seagulls, pigeons, pugs, pomeranians, whippets, moths (far too many moths), spiders, not enough cats for my liking.

Raccoons always act like they own the place, they srsly do not give a shit.

Are favorites are cattle Egrets or cowbirds, we have ongoing stories/jokes about their labor strikes, dealing with who gets certain cows, and why some hang out with horses
http://www.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cattle_egret.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s_kjtDagOmQ/SgMsUi8g56I/AAAAAAAADbo/Ix_cRKzeTrQ/s400/cattle+egrets+with+cow.jpg

^^^those guys like to follow around tractors and plows in the fields. Cuz the big machines stir up lots of insects for them to grab. I always thought that was really cool.

We were watching The Descendants, which takes place in Hawaii and there's one random shot that shows a few cattle and beside them were Egrets hanging out with cows in Hawaii! It made us happy and added to our stories about the birds.

dog, cat, fox, grey squirrel, rabbit, sparrow, robin, blackbird, robin, dunnock, goldfinch, herring gull, pigeon, jackdaw, magpie, jay, earthworm, cthulhu, slug, snail, woodlice, spider, bumblebee, coelecanth, flies, beetles, moths

haha Jacob my sister had to do a project for sixth grade that involved tracking egrets for like, a month I think? so every day we'd all go out with her and help her count egrets. so now whenever we're with her and we see egrets we'll point and say "OMG EGRETS"

squirrel, velociraptor

recently i saw a hawk eating a pigeon on top of somebody's car while walking to work. it turned and cawed at me.

hawk otm

currently listening to some foxes making an almighty racket

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I C U H8IN

parakeets too, those cunts are everywhere (10th most common bird in london or something like that)

I saw a seagull eating a pigeon a while back. That was pretty gross.

is it true that if you put bicarbonate of soda on bread it reacts so violently with the seagulls' gastric juices that they explode? and why would you want to do such a thing, anyway?

On the way to my wedding celebration 8 years ago I saw a rat mug a pigeon for a crust of bread under the BQE overpass. BROOKLYN PROBLEMS

i saw some sort of weasel the other day

out of the window today: fox cats squirrels seagulls magpies pigeons crows blackbirds horse rabbits

mainly squirrels though tbh.

i love seeing a lil fox, glimpsed a couple last summer

we're going into winter so everyone is laying low, tucked up in safe spots having little vague dreams.

Geez y'all live in the woods or something?

Best I manage is possums, cats, dogs. I saw the legendary "giant wildcat" in the bush out at the Bunglebungles, once. If I'm in canberra I'll see roos, and if I'm at my grandparents beachhouse I might spot some wombats as well.

Here though, its all mynah birds, pigeons, gulls, cats and dogs.

i saw a family of bears last summer, and some moose, those were in diff countries tho, also monkeys, fn monkeys smh

where are/were you that you saw monkeys?

india

omg really? i was about to say, you can get your fill of disgusting monkeys in india they are fucking everywhere. they are gross.

yeah monkeys are terrible people

sorry that seems counter to the spirit of the thread

xp

I've heard that. My old roommate grew up in Indonesia and said the monkeys around his village were assholes, lol

This afternoon I went out on the back deck and watched 2 blackbirds, 2 thrashers and 2 mockingbirds really going at it, a weird 3-species fight. They were all really pissed off at each other.

Heh I once saw 2 smallish magpies beating up a much, much larger crow. Magpies are assholes.

fkn hate magpies

bluejays are jerks too

The monkeys you see in pics in India aren't the good kind. You have to go to Borneo for those but they're not monkeys even, they're apes.

I see raccoons, opossums, skunks, rats (:/), dogs, cats, and deer. I wish I saw some bears.

2 blackbirds, 2 thrashers and 2 mockingbirds

That's a pretty awesome bird fight, those are all pretty tough species. (Assuming you mean 'grackle' for blackbird?)

Probably the Common Grackle, yeah. These two (and the onlookers in the pecan tree next door) seemed a bit small, but they might have just been young. But I see this species year-round, which kinds of indicates grackle.

Also there is a family of rabbits here that have a burrow where we leave our left overs after juicing carrots, beets and other veggies. We wonder if they gripe about who keeps leaving the ruined produced in front of our door. Also there are turtles, foxes, chickens, peasants, hawks, eagles, hummingbirds and too many other birds to list, bcats, horses, donkeys, squirrels, raccoons, wild dogs, coyotes, deer, alligators, snakes, bobcats, huge moths, and boars.

some birds and a squirrel once. those annoying little gnat things that buzz around your head when you're sweaty.

read that "after juicing carrots, beer". was thinking thats one heck of a smoothie.

lots of wild turkeys. these birds are everywhere

I've never seen a wild turkey, that would be neat! Do they roam in packs or do you just see one turkey?

packs, usually just 5 or 6 but ive seen like 25 together before

dogs, cats, the occasional fox, but magpies mainly. More than you can count

Oh yeah, I see foxes sometimes too. And squirrels in the park, on the rare occasions I go to the park.

There are turkeys in Boston now too! Two of them were "terrorizing" Brookline last year. I saw them once. Those guys.

lol brookline scares easy

i heard foxes are urban pests in the uk a la raccoons, thats so rad

a bunny lives in my yard, and a raccoon skulks thru now and then. I saw him amble down a tree and walk carefully on the fence to the dumpster. we tolerate each other. the squirrels around here are ~brazen~, no manners whatsoever

Oh we have tons of squirrels, yeah. I actually saw a black one a couple times last year. That was pretty sweet.

There was a fox who used to live in my parents backyard on Long Island. It was gorgeous.

The idea of rampaging hordes of turkeys and foxes is doing my head in.

I mean ppl think we have kangaroos and koalas just roaming about everywhere here and we dont.

but why

i have it on good authority (internet) that the squirrels of the university of chicago were imported from oxford, to present a likeness, and that they bred with the local sciurus carolinensis and can now generally be considered scofflaws, str8 rolling you for seeds or any other stowable

i saw some idiot deer in montana, no amount of yelling would get them to flee into the woods. i even pantomimed a rifle---nothing. i saw no bears, and i can't decide if i'm happy about that or not

xp that is a v good q

Years ago RS and I were walking home late one night when an enormous opossum walked about 5 feet in front of us. We both startled but he literally jumped a bit and sort of grabbed me and gasped "WTF IS THAT?!". I was all "Dude, I know they're gross but chill" until I realized that they don't have opossums in England and he'd never even seen a pic of a NA one and basically thought it was some mutant giant rat. iirc Australian ones are cute. Ours? Not so cute.

deer are hella brazen in this day and age, who even knows whats going on w/this country anymore

i heard foxes are urban pests in the uk a la raccoons, thats so rad

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Well, kind of, but most city people like having them around. It's just the country folk who want to chase them down and have their dogs rip them apart.

The deer on Fire Island used to eat out of our hands.

i would be super psyched to have foxes instead of raccoons foxes r hella cool

Hahah E yeah I never knew american opossums were these hideous devilbeasts til an ILX thread a while ago. I'd always wondered why "Bitey" on the Simpsons looked so jaggedy and vicious.

It was an eye opening thread!

I saw squrls when I was in the UK just chillin out all over like nbd, it was the best.

We do have foxes here too btw, but I dont live in the suburbs, so I never see em. N's parents had some chooks, and a fox killed them :(

raccoons are pretty cool when all you're used to is foxes

Yeah, they'll eat your chickens. Anti-fox people have said that they'll eat your cats, but having lived in places which are both cat and fox heavy, I have never heard tell of such a thing. I have definitely heard tell of cats and foxes hanging out, though.

Cats'll eat the chooks too if they get feral enough.

(prob from hanging out with the foxes, indeed, lol)

We have Owls too, which one night when I was living on the gulf coast, I had been drinking a little and decide to take a walk on the beach. I suddenly froze because i saw a short creature a few feet in front of me that had turned it's head to look at me and I could see these big glowing eyes, Suddenly it spread, what seemed like huge arms and took off. Embarrassingly I actually screamed, I thought it was a little devil, but no it was only an Owl.

Owls still give me the creeps.

you saw the mothman

i was swimming with friends one night and when we were walking back a m-fin screech owl went off like a howling old witch and my friend dave picked up a rock. i'd say that it was embarrassing (it was), but more than one person was standing on one foot, hands clawed like there were mice just fucking everywhere all over the floor. fukkin love owls

Took this a couple years ago outside my old place:

http://i56.tinypic.com/2eatjbo.jpg

those guys are so rad

god i can't remember, why are animal eyes so shiny again? there's like a reason for this, and i am irritated that i can't remember it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum

i am the cosmos i am the wind

Oh, I don't know about the eyes. Huh. Weird thing about that was that I didn't realize there were two of them until I saw the second pair of eyes. Totally thought it was one lonely guy just thinkin' bout things.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Astrid_com_orelhonas-crop.jpg

Odd-eyed cat, photograph showing eyeshine and red-eye effect.

best pic, best cat

Wish cabbits existed.

two in cahoots guys plotting about things

raccoons are disgusting h8 those gross dudes creeping around all hunchbacked making weird nosies, cats r way too big to be eaten by a fox

Yeah foxes are surprisingly short guys. I've seen cats take on large dogs and send the dogs yelping.

cats r pound for pund quite devastating, prob only weasels are badder ass

You wanna talk weird noises, the scream of a vixen is one of nature's most unnerving

squirrels round my way so fuckin' cheeky, you can walk past within literal grabbing distance and they just give you the eye, idk i feel they should be more afeared of their human overlords.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6623437525_00133bf8cf_z.jpg

also urban foxes, generally nocturnal but i've seen a couple strolling down the street at 9am, broad daylight, no fear.

oh our possums may look cute but by god they make devil sounds, a guttural growling hiss, it's freaky.

i have monkeys in the park behind my office. just discovered this 2 days ago when i went there for a walk at lunchtime. also, i support the sentiment up thread that monkeys are assholes. i think i've already vented against them somewhere on ilx.

Deer
Woodchucks
Foxes
Herons
Buzzards AKA turkey vultures (given all the roadkill, I LIKE the idea of critters that dine on roadside carnage)
Opossums
If I drive to work through Great Falls, sometimes I see horses

I live opposite a cemetery and I often see the following in there:

Deer
Turkeys
Groundhogs
Chipmunks
Bluejays
Cardinals
Those red breasted Jays americans insist on calling robins
Morning Doves
Monarch Butterflies
Geese
Ducks

Down at the plant all that and a lot of Kildeer

http://i49.tinypic.com/2mdwn4.jpg

rabit squirrels