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So I live in a suburb of a fairly large city; there are foxes, deer, and coyotes in other suburbs and the county, but being so close to the beach and so densely populated with people, the biggest wildlife we usually get are raccoons, opossums, and skunks.

Well, last night at like 3 am I hear a thunk from the kitchen. When I turn on the light I don't see anything, but a knicknack was knocked off the back of the stove onto a burner. I replaced it and went back to bed. Five minutes later, another thunk. Still nothing. This hapened something like five more times, until finally I spotted the big round ears behind the spice rack.

It was a baby opossum. I shut the dog outside on one side of the yard, propped open the door nearest to the possum, and laid a trail of dog kibble out the door. He was gone this morning. But lately we've had juvenile red tailed hawks hanging out around our yard, eying the chickens, who are too big for them. Weirdest thing to see red tailed hawks drinking out of the chickens' water dish--but it's hot out.

So, FS, what kind of urban--or not so urban--wildlife do you have where you are? Any stories?

Nothing remarkable. Some deer, opossums, raccoons, coyotes. I've seen a live fox once, and a couple of dead ones. Some hawks. Various passerines. Mourning doves. A royal fuckton of Canada geese.

I mean, that's the general Midwest suburb thing. I do currently (though not for much longer) live by a lake; we have a resident great blue heron, swallows, frogs (including bullfrogs which are really loud!) and I think turtles. And lots of mallards in addition to all the motherfucking geese. They're less obnoxious than the geese though.

Last summer, we had a juvenile black bear walk up to our living room window and peer in. When we showed interest, he backed away and lumbered off, and we watched him go around the far end of the house and lope down the driveway.

Not the most exciting story, maybe, but...A BLACK BEAR CAME UP TO MY WINDOW HOLY SHIT.

I'd call that pretty exciting!

Did you shit yourself from fright?

I see a lot of opossums on the side of the road and I watched a fox cross the road the other day.

We'll probably have deer picking at the apple tree in our front yard soon. Then the wild turkeys will show up in our back yard.

I grew up pretty far in the country surrounded by woods. It was not unusual to see deer, rabbits, possums, raccoons, and such. We had a problem with snakes getting into our house all the time.

In Oklahoma, I mostly see foxes, rabbits, and dead armadillos.

Aw, baby possum! <3

I live in a Utah suburb with all kinds of critters. We smell skunks all the time, though I've never seen a live one. There's a red-tailed hawk in the area. We have muskrats in the canal a block from our house, along with ducks. California quail are all over the neighborhood. We saw the cutest little teeny garter snake on our walk the other day, and we have them in our yard as well, front and back. A kestrel once killed a mouse in my back yard. White-faced ibis like to hang out in the horse pasture across the street from the high school.

And my security cam caught a deer in my driveway one night. Like, seriously, we live in the middle of town. There should not be a friggin' deer here, but there she was.

Midwest suburbs, so we get the usual small stuff - possum, raccoon, skunks, rabbits, mice (which try to invade the house unfortunately) and deer. I once saw a coyote too, though!

Around here there are deer, bunnies, squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, foxes, possums, bats, and skunks. Hawks (or other birds of prey I misidentify as hawks :/), owls, herons, woodpeckers, ummm...nothing else really remarkable comes to mind. (The usual crows, jays, sparrows, etc. are here, too, of course.)

The foxes are the cool thing. When I was growing up, there was fox hunting in some parts of the county, and I never saw foxes anywhere. Now, I see them dart across the road at night all the time, and when my dad was still living in the suburbs and I would visit him, I could hear foxes barking at night regularly.

E: Just remembered! In my dad's neighborhood, the house across the street had a random family of mallard (?) ducks living in their yard, for some reason! In the summers, I would see them taking walks across people's front lawns -- the husband and wife, and occasionally little ducklings. I don't know if it was the same pair of ducks who returned to nest there for years, or if it was subsequent generations of ducks.

Edited 2016-08-10 23:39 (UTC)

city suburbs that back up on to a sanctuary - I got Hawks, rats (native and not), feral cats, foxes, ringtail possums, bats, various small and medium parrots, "hummingbirds" in summer, rabbits, wallabies and one time a kangaroo (roadkill)

We get foxes, bunnies, coyotes, raccoons, etc in my area and we're practically on the city's doorstep. XD

We were visited by two red foxes on a regular basis lately. They were munching up the dropped off cherries from under the tree. The cherries are gone now so they haven't been around much but they were very adorable.
We had an invasion of deer last spring. They made quite a mess. Also wild boars and I'm glad I didn't encounter them.
We have a lot of martens and weasels around as well.

Baby opossum aww! I envy you your red-tails too - they're beautiful birds.

Here I get kookaburras, cockatoos and about ten other species of parrot, and wetland birds. Plenty of eagles, harriers, kites etc. People up and down the road occasionally get koalas on their property, but I've never had one, despite planting food trees especially for them. :/ Lots of spiders, both inside and outside the house. I get asked if I'm afraid spiders, to which I reply "Only the two-legged ones" (which is an insult to the noble tribe Arachnidae tbh.)

I see raccoons and possums regularly, but there is also a bobcat that comes thru here every once in awhile. I have seen it on my fence twice and my husband saw it in the road early one morning. I live in the San Jose burbs so it's a cool thing to see, I just hope these animals are smart enough to stay out of the road and away from the highways.

Live in rural NS. We get deer, coyotes, foxes, squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, raccoons, skunks, bears (I haven't seen the bear but people I know have). Crows, blue jays, hummingbirds, grosbeaks, robins, hawks, bald eagles ( saw a couple of them one winter--my parents live near a river and the eagles were out on the ice).

This spring, our next door neighbours had foxes--the mother fox gave birth under their shed. And often times if you drove by and slowed down you'd see the babies sitting outside (cute little things); often saw the adult foxes out and hunting. One morning my sister went outside to check her gardens, walked around the corner of our house just as the male/father fox was coming around from the back--he had a grey squirrel in his mouth. He just went his way back to their den. We've had deer run through our yard/on the hill opposite our property out back....

I had all kinds of woodland critters, since I lived by a forest preserve. Rabbits, Redtail Hawks, Various songbirds, Deer, Possums, Raccoons, Squirrels, Chipmunks, Mice, Skunks, and the occasional Fox, Coyote and Owl wandered into our yard on a daily/nightly basis.

I used to make friends with various critters in my backyard. Like I had a couple "pet" squirrels (a male aptly named Big Balls, and a fat female who didn't have a name) who'd come up to me and eat treats out of my hand, and a couple "pet" rabbits who'd hang around my yard until I fed them bread (they wouldn't leave until they got their bread either, lol), and various other critters.

Ever since moving into a city, I haven't seen many wild critters. Songbirds, Rabbits, and Squirrels are about it. Nothing out of the ordinary. None of them want to be friends either :(

Edited 2016-08-11 00:34 (UTC)

A ton of asshole Canadian geese, ducks, deer, turtles, snakes, possums, groundhogs, bunnies, a bunch of various types of birds, chipmunks, skunks (though I only smell them and not see them), squirrels, bats, frogs...probably others that I'm forgetting about right now.

Mostly I've just got foxes where I live, I'll maybe see a Hedgehog in the garden sometimes but very rarely. We do get bats in the summer, there's a church not that far from me and they live in the bell-tower so we see them at night sometimes(one of my tom-cats used to catch them alive and bring them inside).

We live at the lake. We had a snake come down our chimney and into the living room through a vent in the fireplace. Luckily, it went back through a lower vent as it slithered down the rock face and then went into the fireplace, and wasn't loose in the living room. But then it was in the fireplace. My dad shot it. Sorry, no snake is a good snake when it's in the house.

Suburbs of Los Angeles. We get possums on the back fence every once in a while, and they make the dog go nuts. And the other day, my mom saw a hawk come down and perch on the handle of the lawnmower. It flew away when it saw the cat (which is a good thing, because I'd be worried about the cat; he's old and skinny.)

You can see/hear geese 'cause there are 2 ponds nearby and there are deer a long ways down from our house.

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