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skibum609Massachusetts

What kind of wildlife have you seen in your yard or in your area this month? In my backyard, not counting the 20+ bird species (Turkeys, Cardinals, Owls, Woodpeckers, etc.) we see daily we have had 3 coyotes (No squirrell or ground hog problem for 2 years), 2 black Vultures, 4 deer, including one of the largest does I have ever seen and to top it off a bobcat. This morning going to a deposition I had a black bear run right across Main Street in front of my car. I have lived most of my life within 50 miles of where I am now and none of this existed before the late 1990s. Very cool to see wildlife on a daily basis.

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Studme53

Bald eagles and ospreys around the river one block down the street from my house. Foxes and coyotes down at the river as well. I’m happy there’s a lot of fish for the eagles and ospreys. An osprey was eating a big fish on top of the telephone pole in front of my house one day way I came home from work. Foxes and coyotes probably eating squirrels and rabbits - tons of those around.
A big raccoon was eating a good size rabbit on my deck one recent morning. When I scared it away it climbed a tree in my backyard with the rabbit in its mouth - like a mountain lion or something. I’d never seen a raccoon do that.

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shadowcat

Mostly squirrels and deer including a buck for the first time.

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sushiman

Red foxes and groundhog which has taken up residence on the upper level of my property. Always have deer and many years ago; a Black Bear...

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Muddy

You guys must live in the woods. Y'all gotta watch for ticks in that situation, that's one you really don't want to see. Black vultures I guess are moving up north, especially if they are up by ski that's typically southern bird but I guess people up here in the NE are saying wtf is that thing they haven't seen them before.

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gSteph

Squirrels, ground squirrels, turkey vultures, and lots of deer. Including an old 3 legged doe with two fawns.

She survived a vehicle collision 15 years ago, her damaged leg finally rotted off, getting pretty slow these days. Good deer habitat around here and a few of the neighbors feed her some.

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DandyDan

Usually it's just squirrels and rabbits running around the apartment complex I live at. I have seen deer in the grassy area outside my bedroom window.

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Icey

Ive seen pigeons, bats, owls, coyotes, lizards, scorpions, grasshoppers. Ive seen ducks fly by

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Icey

There are also huge wild rabbits

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Studme53

Seeing Great Blue Herons on the river nearby is exciting too. Especially when they take off and spread those big wings and fly real low along the river.

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ClubFan81077

I live in a pretty developed area, so I don't really see anything too interesting in terms of wildlife. Mostly just rabbits and squirrels, with the occasional skunk or racoon thrown in for good measure. Actually, I guess I don't usually SEE a skunk, because the second I smell their presence, I tend to get the hell out of there. The last thing I want to do is spook one of those things...

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twentyfive

Bobcats, alligators, iguanas, snakes, ibis, herons owls, among others.

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shailynn

Nobody has mentioned a skunk yet, yeah I’ve seen those in my yard.

The other day two pileated woodpeckers showed up at my bird feeder, they were each the size of a large cat!

One night last summer, I was up in the middle of the night and I saw a shadow go by my window. Scared me to death and when I looked outside there were 11 deer on my street. The neighborhood has a “population thinning” each fall.

Right now around 8:15 just about every night a flock of Canadian geese flies over my house.

The one good thing is I’ve lived here almost 20 years and I’ve only seen one snake in that time period and it was just a small Garter.

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Lex Luthor

Possums, raccoons, deer, foxes, squirrels, chipmunks, turkeys, rabbits, and woodchucks are the ones I see often. I have seen black bears and coyotes, but not in the last month, and they're not that common where I live. Plenty of hawks and numerous other kinds of birds, also.

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IfIGottaBeDamned

Lining in a typical suburban area, I also see dear, fox, rabbits, squirrels, and various common songbirds.

I also often see skinks with beautiful iridescent blue scales on the back half of its body.

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Iknowbetter

Sharks have become a nuisance in my backyard recently. They used to stay offshore but now can be found in the Intracoastal waterway and in Biscayne Bay. I have a large nurse shark living under my dock. He gets fed when I’m cleaning fish or when I shoot an iguana and the big lizard falls into the water.

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Nothing in the past month, I live in a really developed area and a small plot of land. Having said that have seen Groundhog, deer, skunk, and fox within the past couple of years. Mostly at night, on the cams.

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