Which of course is the scariest kind of raccoon.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Seagulls, pigeons, pugs, pomeranians, whippets, moths (far too many moths), spiders, not enough cats for my liking.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
Raccoons always act like they own the place, they srsly do not give a shit.
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
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 horseshttp://www.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cattle_egret.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s_kjtDagOmQ/SgMsUi8g56I/AAAAAAAADbo/Ix_cRKzeTrQ/s400/cattle+egrets+with+cow.jpg
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
^^^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.
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
squirrel, velociraptor
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
recently i saw a hawk eating a pigeon on top of somebody's car while walking to work. it turned and cawed at me.
― bark ruffalo (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
hawk otm
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
currently listening to some foxes making an almighty racket
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
cthulhu
I C U H8IN
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
parakeets too, those cunts are everywhere (10th most common bird in london or something like that)
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
I saw a seagull eating a pigeon a while back. That was pretty gross.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
i saw some sort of weasel the other day
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
out of the window today: fox cats squirrels seagulls magpies pigeons crows blackbirds horse rabbits
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
mainly squirrels though tbh.
i love seeing a lil fox, glimpsed a couple last summer
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
we're going into winter so everyone is laying low, tucked up in safe spots having little vague dreams.
― estela, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
i saw a family of bears last summer, and some moose, those were in diff countries tho, also monkeys, fn monkeys smh
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
where are/were you that you saw monkeys?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
india
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
omg really? i was about to say, you can get your fill of disgusting monkeys in india they are fucking everywhere. they are gross.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah monkeys are terrible people
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
sorry that seems counter to the spirit of the thread
xp
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard that. My old roommate grew up in Indonesia and said the monkeys around his village were assholes, lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Heh I once saw 2 smallish magpies beating up a much, much larger crow. Magpies are assholes.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
fkn hate magpies
bluejays are jerks too
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
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?)
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
some birds and a squirrel once. those annoying little gnat things that buzz around your head when you're sweaty.
― Spectrum, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
read that "after juicing carrots, beer". was thinking thats one heck of a smoothie.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
lots of wild turkeys. these birds are everywhere
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
I've never seen a wild turkey, that would be neat! Do they roam in packs or do you just see one turkey?
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
packs, usually just 5 or 6 but ive seen like 25 together before
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
dogs, cats, the occasional fox, but magpies mainly. More than you can count
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, I see foxes sometimes too. And squirrels in the park, on the rare occasions I go to the park.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
There are turkeys in Boston now too! Two of them were "terrorizing" Brookline last year. I saw them once. Those guys.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol brookline scares easy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
i heard foxes are urban pests in the uk a la raccoons, thats so rad
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
The idea of rampaging hordes of turkeys and foxes is doing my head in.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:22 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
The deer on Fire Island used to eat out of our hands.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
i would be super psyched to have foxes instead of raccoons foxes r hella cool
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
It was an eye opening thread!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
I saw squrls when I was in the UK just chillin out all over like nbd, it was the best.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Cats'll eat the chooks too if they get feral enough.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
(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.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Owls still give me the creeps.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
you saw the mothman
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Took this a couple years ago outside my old place:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2eatjbo.jpg
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
those guys are so rad
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Astrid_com_orelhonas-crop.jpg
Odd-eyed cat, photograph showing eyeshine and red-eye effect.
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
best pic, best cat
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
Wish cabbits existed.
― *tera, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
two in cahoots guys plotting about things
― estela, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah foxes are surprisingly short guys. I've seen cats take on large dogs and send the dogs yelping.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
cats r pound for pund quite devastating, prob only weasels are badder ass
― lag∞n, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
You wanna talk weird noises, the scream of a vixen is one of nature's most unnerving
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh our possums may look cute but by god they make devil sounds, a guttural growling hiss, it's freaky.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Jibe, Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:34 (twelve years ago) link
DeerWoodchucksFoxesHeronsBuzzards AKA turkey vultures (given all the roadkill, I LIKE the idea of critters that dine on roadside carnage)OpossumsIf I drive to work through Great Falls, sometimes I see horses
― challoped potatoes (j.lu), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
I live opposite a cemetery and I often see the following in there:
DeerTurkeysGroundhogsChipmunksBluejaysCardinalsThose red breasted Jays americans insist on calling robinsMorning DovesMonarch ButterfliesGeeseDucks
Down at the plant all that and a lot of Kildeer
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://i49.tinypic.com/2mdwn4.jpg
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
rabit squirrels
― remy bean, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link