Who lives in your yard?

[cassiesmom]

There are so many birds in the trees outside my building! We aren't allowed to feed them but I know there are people who do. Plus squirrels, chipmunks, and the occasional opossum or raccoon. If I am very lucky I may see a visiting deer.

My mom and dad have a bird (they think it is a cardinal) who starts singing every morning around 4:30 AM -- it's still dark out at that hour and the bird sings LOUD! He favors 2 different trees in their yard.

[kokopup]

I have a lot of acreage so I get to see a little of everything. I have some
Nocturnal critters that I don't see but see evidence of their presence on
my trails. Following are some but not all on my critters.

Every bird imaginable but especially Humming Birds. I have 3 feeders that around 15 hummers fight over.

Squirrels
Rabbits
Chipmunks
Possums
Armadilla
Turkey
Snakes
Mice
Deer
Fox
Skunks
Raccoons
Moles
Groundhogs
Coyotes
Canadian Geese== that have become permanant residence.
Bunches of lizards , Scaley, camillion, Blue tail
feral cats and ocassional dogs.

[G535]

Lots of birds:



and all the neighbors' cats.

[KYS]

BUGS! PLENTY OF BUGS!
Squirrels
Possums
lizards
Mice
rats
birds including hawks.
cats and dogs
I have never seen them, but have been seen in the neighborhood.
coyotes, and snakes.

[sparks19]

Well

We are the proud habitat for a mommy and daddy Robin with TWO big beautiful babies... won't be long before they take off from the nest they are getting so big.

we have SOMETHING living under the deck but we aren't sure exactly what is under there

other than that... most critters avoid our yard because the dogs make SURE of it lol

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Because of our dogs, I don't think anything lives in the yard except the jackrabbit who likes our front yard (which the dogs don't have access to). But, we have visitors, brave (or stupid) creatures that will stop by like squirrels, birds, and I saw a cute little mouse the other day.

Up the road near our community park there is a "village" of prairie dogs (there are quite a few prairie dog cities around here) so sometimes you will see coyotes and large hawks around there too. I've also seen a few pronghorn antelope up the road in a large field, but never in our yard.

[Queen of Poop]

We've had a variety since we moved in in November:

Moose
Elk
Deer
Coyotes
Red Fox
Weasel
A huge variety of birds (I'm still looking for the Alberta Bird book to be able to identify them all)
3 horses ran away from home and stayed for 3 days, munching our grass

Hope I've not missed anyone.

[kuhio98]

Moose
Coyote
Steller Jays
Robins
Chickadees
Dark Eyed Junkos
Loons
Sand Hill Cranes
Mice
Shrews
Voles
Bees
Hornets
Dragonflys
Butterflys

[Sirrahsim]

We have a charming collection of fire ants and the occasional Black Widow spider
I saw a rabbit sometime last year and the whole neighborhood is full of squirrels.

Oh yeah, and roaches big enough to saddle up and ride

[cassiesmom]

Two of the four neighborhood cats are back in my mom and dad's yard. The brown tabby is from the house across the alley -- my dad and I have both asked that family to please keep their cat indoors because she poops in my dad's garden. And the tuxie is from the house across the street and one door east. I would be really happy if that family kept their cat indoors because s/he is mostly black and I don't want him/her getting struck by a car.

So far, no raccoons this year (unlike the mom and four babies he had in August). One opossum.

[Louie and me]

Every bird imaginable including a Coopers Hawk I saw the other day.
Lots of bunnies (especially now my crocus are showing)
Squirrels black and brown
Chipmunks
Voles
A beautiful red fox
Racoons
A coyote (in next door's garden)
I smell the leftover odor of a skunk but fortunately have not seen it!
My yard backs onto a creek that joins a conservation area and this winter for the first time we had three deer that have visited once or twice a day. The fences mean nothing as they cross from garden to garden. I have pictures if I only knew how to load them.