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I don't live in the country - but I do live in an old subdivision and 500 yards from a river, and I get quite a bit of wildlife around the house.
What about y'all - what animals have you seen in or around your house?
I have seen the following animals:
- A healthy red fox must live near my house, I see him all the time. I don't ever see rabbits so I'm not sure what he's eating. Probably rabbits that's why I don't see them. I saw him as I left the driveway this morning.
- Opossums, raccoons (especially in the late spring they come out in the daytime to eat berries off the trees)
- Rat snakes, blue-tailed skinks
- A red hawk used to live in the trees in my neighbor's house across the street. One day I was watching TV and my cat was laying in the sun by a window. Then all of a sudden BOOM, something smacked the sheet out of the window. I looked and saw it was the red hawk - I think it was swooping down to get our cat and smashed into the window. Stupid bird. I haven't seen it since, I wonder if it was injured from that.
- Ospreys. Man they're everywhere along that river. I hear them chirping to each other all day when I'm home..
- Blue herons. They don't usually come near the yard but we have a fountain with goldfish in it. There used to be a tree over it but we lost that tree last year. A couple of months later, I caught a blue heron having a buffet of goldfish. I guess they couldn't see the fish from above when the tree used to be there.
- Bald eagle - there is a nesting pair up the river, they rarely fly over the house but I have seen them above the house a couple of times.
- Deer (white tail) - in the spring deer move through our neighborhood. We typically get a few sightings in the yard - most often in the late afternoon (which kind of surprised me).
What about y'all - what animals have you seen in or around your house?
I have seen the following animals:
- A healthy red fox must live near my house, I see him all the time. I don't ever see rabbits so I'm not sure what he's eating. Probably rabbits that's why I don't see them. I saw him as I left the driveway this morning.
- Opossums, raccoons (especially in the late spring they come out in the daytime to eat berries off the trees)
- Rat snakes, blue-tailed skinks
- A red hawk used to live in the trees in my neighbor's house across the street. One day I was watching TV and my cat was laying in the sun by a window. Then all of a sudden BOOM, something smacked the sheet out of the window. I looked and saw it was the red hawk - I think it was swooping down to get our cat and smashed into the window. Stupid bird. I haven't seen it since, I wonder if it was injured from that.
- Ospreys. Man they're everywhere along that river. I hear them chirping to each other all day when I'm home..
- Blue herons. They don't usually come near the yard but we have a fountain with goldfish in it. There used to be a tree over it but we lost that tree last year. A couple of months later, I caught a blue heron having a buffet of goldfish. I guess they couldn't see the fish from above when the tree used to be there.
- Bald eagle - there is a nesting pair up the river, they rarely fly over the house but I have seen them above the house a couple of times.
- Deer (white tail) - in the spring deer move through our neighborhood. We typically get a few sightings in the yard - most often in the late afternoon (which kind of surprised me).
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