ITT we list the animals we see regularly where we live

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

― 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.

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