Do you have wildlife in your neighborhood?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238364)
Walnut Creek, California
October 28, 2020 12:25pm CST
Up at my cabin in Montana, I often see deer, skunks, squirrels, eagles, and other birds of various kinds. We also have a black bear up there, but I haven't seen her.
Here at my house in California, we have raccoons, squirrels, hummingbirds, doves, hawks, crows, and other birds flying around our house. We also have Mallard ducks and Canada geese waddling through our parking lot at times. They're everywhere along our bike paths and in our parks.
In our Mt. Diablo foothills, where my horse lived, we have coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, hawks, vultures, smaller birds, and many different kinds of snakes, including a shy breed of rattlesnake.
Do you have wildlife where you live? I think it would be fun to live where moose and bears wandered the streets. I wouldn't "mess" with either. I'll attach another picture from my hike the other day. We met Mr. and Mrs. Duck fairly near where we took the picture in my previous post.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
28 Oct 20
Wild turkeys pass through our yard, twice each day. Our neighbor saw a black bear, just behind his home. Two evening ago, a four point buck(deer) casually walked up our driveway!
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
28 Oct 20
@TheHorse Tawas is on Lake Huron's shoreline, about 30 miles north of Michigan's thumb.
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@TheHorse (238364)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Oct 20
@kobesbuddy I'll have to take a peek. I went to summer camp in Lawrence, which is near Paw Paw and Kalamazoo.
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@wolfgirl569 (136008)
• Marion, Ohio
30 Oct 20
@TheHorse I dont have too much trouble with them. But we do keep everyone mostly fenced in and that helps
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@TheHorse (238364)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 20
@wolfgirl569 I think it was the coyotes that were our nemesis at the stable in the foothills.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Oct 20
We have the same CA suburbia wildlife mix here too. The ducks and geese are in the parks and places with ponds. Yah, I would love to see the biggies out here too - but apparently it's not exactly fun having to really deal with them.
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@FourWalls (86875)
• United States
28 Oct 20
Saw a ground hog helping himself to the squirrel/bird food a couple of times.
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@sallypup (69241)
• Centralia, Washington
28 Oct 20
Paradise photo! I live on some weedy acres so there is wildlife. I don't see many animals but I hear coyotes and I know that something rather large killed one of my turkeys a few years ago. Tons of birds around, including melodious meadowlarks in the sagebrush. One of my dogs knows that there are skunks here, too.
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@sweetshayens (328)
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29 Oct 20
Wow that's awesome :-) you're so blessed to have wildlife around your house. The wild animals that sometimes I found are civet, lizard, snake, owl, bat, squirrel and some small birds :-)
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@sweetshayens (328)
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29 Oct 20
@TheHorse civet is a kind of wild cat, it's like Asian version of raccoon :-) Unfortunately the small birds seem to be decreased in amount, I used to see a bird that eats flower's nectar but now they dissappear
@BarBaraPrz (51838)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Oct 20
Birds, squirrels and free-range cats. There may be racoons and other critters in the park down the hill.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
28 Oct 20
what a most serene shot ya got there. i've lots 'f birds, seems a skunk's taken resident, a herd 'f feral cats. not's many varieties here now, some due to the latter (ferals), others the humans. what's a 'shy rattlesnake'?
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
29 Oct 20
@TheHorse don't heed the warnin' here 'n yer'n big trouble, mister! poke one with a stick, regardless 'f reason 'n ya best be wearin' snake gaiters. 'nless 'tis cold'n one get caught out...then they'd be purty passive.
that's a beauty right there :) gigglin' o'er yer rendition 'f the elders thoughts!
@TheHorse (238364)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Oct 20
Oh, they're called Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes, and they're less aggressive than many other kinds of rattlesnakes. The young ones are like the little chicken hawk that Foghorn Leghorn used to mess with. "Boy, I'll show you how to catch a chicken." They rattle at you and look real mad. But the older ones just rattle at you as if to say, "I'm too old for this sh*t. Just leave me alone," and then move slowly away. This is all based on personal experience. I'll attach a picture of a fairly young one. He only rattled when I poked him with a stick to get him off the trail. Then he just curled, looked at me, and didn't rattle gain. Somehow he knew I was not a threat to him.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
30 Oct 20
You have a lot of wildlife where you live.
We have birds, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, beaver, geese, ducks, eagles, and there's another one I'm not sure about. I want to say an opossum, might be a sloth. It's a new one in these parts. It's rather large.
@lovebuglena (52213)
• Staten Island, New York
29 Oct 20
We have deer, squirrels, pigeons, ducks, geese, turkeys, praying mantises, chipmunks, raccoons, and a bunch of other birds I don't know the names of.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
30 Oct 20
Wow you own a lot of land. How wonderful to have so many places to go to enjoy nature.
I have woodchuck, fox, coyote, Turkey, deer and bear that come through my yard as well as all different kinds of birds. I saw a little hawk a few days ago too.
@LindaOHio (222806)
• United States
29 Oct 20
Great picture. We see deer, fox, raccoons, turkeys, geese, skunks, possums, etc.
