Deer, wild turkey, pheasant, bobcat, coyotes, foxes, skunks, raccoons, possum, owls, hawks, geese, ducks, squirrel, rabbits,. And once a puma, just passing through.

I have a coyote I have to kill tonight.

I have lots of local residents who wander through my yard. I see some, but others get a portrait on my game camera:
- One very large Black Bear and cubs
- Deer
- Fox
- Bobcat
- Coyotes
- Fisher Cat
- Snowshoe Hare
- Cottontail Rabbits
- Raccoons
- Way too many Turkeys
- Partridge and Ring neck Pheasants
- Owl
- Red Tail Hawk
- Coopers Hawk
- Lots of Chipmunks, Gray Squirrels and red Squirrels

I live on the side of a small mountain with hundreds of acres of woodlands behind my house, kind of like a game preserve. It never gets hunted or trapped which is why I think there is an abundance of critters.

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Scorpions. I got one in my apartment in Glendale, a built-up area far from the country. This one I smashed with a heavy book, and it was still difficult to kill. The variety found out there has a nasty sting.

When I lived in the Arizona desert I stepped on a centipede in my bare feet when I went into the kitchen in the middle of the night. They hurt like fire too. Bastard scooted under the stove and I couldn't exact my revenge on him either.

I once had a scorpion in the cupboard of a seventh floor apartment in Arizona.

In my backyard: Copperheads, skunks, opossums, rabbits, various birds including lots of cardinals.

Within 3 miles: Black bear, bobcat, deer, coyote, wild turkey, turkey vultures, eagle, hawk.

I'm 5 miles as the crow flies outside Charlotte city limits.

I won't mention the birds since I'm on a large lake and there are too many to list, including eagles, hawks, geese, ducks, loons, herons, and then the land birds. Animals include: bear, moose, deer, fisher, fox, mink, weasel/ermine, possum, pine marten, bobcat, three species of squirrel, and the odd migrating bigfoot.

Right now black bear are very popular in the area. One of the neighbors was talking about tagging and tracking a particular bear that’s doing a daily “about town” visit to their locale. I think a hunter that shot one (a nuisance bear) dressed it out at a little over 600# sometime a bit earlier this month. That one was a bit further out of our neighborhood, but they’re all over right now.

What I've seen in my yard within the last year:
elk
deer
bear
foxes
turkeys
band tail pigeons
geese
ducks
rabbits
3 species of squirrels
marmot
porcupine
skunk
raccoons
moose
coyote
hummingbirds

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Scorpions. I got one in my apartment in Glendale, a built-up area far from the country. This one I smashed with a heavy book, and it was still difficult to kill. The variety found out there has a nasty sting.

Part of what I forgot. The Bark Scorpion is indigenous to AZ, and the most deadly (to humans). Scorpions are also very fast. Not very big, but deadly. You can see them (plentifully) at night with an UV light). We also have a particularly deadly centipede, the Giant Desert Centipede, with a nasty bite. This guy just ate a full can of Wasp and Hornet spray.
 

 

Scorpions, lizards, mice, birds and flying bugs of all descriptions, possums, cats, dogs, coyotes and a family of buzzards that (I wish I was joking) consider the outdoor green area of the local retirement home to be the center of their hunting grounds. The dern things perch on the lampposts out just in from of the place all the dang time.

Deer, foxes, raccoons, skunks, rabbits, squirrels, and a blond wolf (my Akita).

Mike

Gators, black snakes, hawks, owls, eagles, opossums, armadillos, snapping turtles, red tailed fox, supposedly a few neighbors have spotted a coyote recently, so on the lookout for that sucker

Just a handful of raccoons and mice in my immediate neighborhood. A little further west but still in the populated area I've seen the occasional deer and one coyote. We have deer wander onto the gun club property regularly. Once in a while I see a hawk circling around looking for dinner.

Here in the heavily populated burbs, nothing exotic. Do have a bumper crop of raccoons this year... and oh yeah, the 300lb black bear that strolled through just this morning

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Deer, raccoons, porcupine, skunks, rock chucks, coyote, geese, ducks, turkeys, weasels, 2 moose over the years, a few snakes, lots of quail and pheasants, too many other birds to name. I'm sure I missed a few but you get the drift.

Jim

Here in urban Dallas I sometimes have raccoons and opossums visit my back yard to eat the cat food. I did see a red fox once, and some time back a couple of skunks.

flashguy

Javelina, rattlesnakes, king snakes, and Gila Monsters every once in a blue moon.