Wild animals of Montana?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238325)
Walnut Creek, California
August 28, 2018 12:16pm CST
When I was up in Montana, I saw a red fox. That was pretty cool. It was up at a high mountain pass on the way to Missoula. Near my cabin I saw plenty of deer and squirrels, but no bears or mountain lions, though some do roam our mountains. I also saw one dead rattlesnake near Gilt Edge, an old mining town that's in a rockier part of our mountains.
But this wild turkey was just strolling around our apartment complex here in California. Usually hens travel in groups, so I was wondering how this poor thing got "lost." I snapped the photo from my truck, clucked at her a bit, and moved on.
Do you have wildlife living near you? Here in California, we have wild turkeys everywhere, not to mention squirrels, skunks, possums, and raccoons. On Mt. Diablo, a few miles away, we have coyotes, mountain lions, rattlers, and bobcats as well. But we see more coyotes than anything else.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
29 Aug 18
We have wild turkeys, lots of squirrels, skunks, raccoons, and might have possums, not sure about that one though. I did see one strange animal once, that might have been a possum. It didn't look like any of the others common to the area. We also have lots of deer. I saw one on the way to church a couple weeks ago.
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@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Aug 18
I saw plenty of deer in Montana. We Have them here too. Possums look like large fat rats to me. Except not as cute, poor things. I took only one deer shot up in Montana. We stared at each other for literally a minute or two before I snapped the picture.
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@snowy22315 (208998)
• United States
29 Aug 18
Yes, we have lots of wildlife. A couple of month's back I saw a red fox a large one, out for a stroll in the woods behind my deck. Deer show up here regularly. We also have plenty of gamebirds.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
29 Aug 18
I have it all but bear and big cats. Last week headed to town I passed a field with about 30 wild turkeys.
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@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Aug 18
It's funny that I drove close to 150 miles to "hunt" turkey on my friend's property in Northern California. There are wild turkeys all over the place here in the Bay Area suburbs. Don't worry. I had my friend's dad's 12 gauge shotgun in hand bit never got a shot off.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Aug 18
I live by the hills so the coyotes come down. There's the usual squirrels, raccoons, possum, skunks and I have even spied a couple rabbits.
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@toniganzon (77209)
• Philippines
29 Aug 18
No wildlife living anywhere near me at all.
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@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Aug 18
@JudyEv Interesting! I wonder if New Zealand has other species that are unique to the Southern Hemisphere, and similar to what you have in Australia. In my life, so far, I have been to Europe, Canada and Mexico, but I have never been South of the equator.
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
28 Aug 18
No snakes, thank goodness. Raccoons, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, the odd deer here and there, once in a while a moose will step up to the median of a highway, black bears and of course, the Ground Hog.
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@debjani1 (7202)
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15 Nov 18
No I don't have wildlife near me. You are so lucky that you can see the different animals in your everyday lifetime. This is a beautiful experience I think.
