Have you ever found any interesting critters or you property?

You name it lol. I live on probably the most rural part of connecticut and what that means is that everything that used to live out in the suburbs has moved this way. Probably the most common things I see are squirels, skunks, ground hogs, snakes, and turkey's. I also come across the ocasional deer, moose, black bear, bob cat, cyotee, and lost of other critters.

When I lived in the mountains of western North Carolina, I lived on 28 acres 15 miles from the nearest small town. I think I had just about every wild critter in north america pass through, with the exception of elk. I've had an opossum get caught in my screen door, deer, turkey, wildcats, mountain lions, black and cinnamon bears, pheasant, quail, wild pigs, rabbits, stray cows and horses, fox, weasels, mice, squirrels, flying squirrels, moles, voles, whistlepigs (groundhogs) snakes of all sorts, and even people.

Some of the neatest things I've found would be:

I found a waterdog.. huge salamander thing in a spring feeding the river. Foot long size.

Flying squirrels... wow... they really glide well.

Mountain lion with cub. Back away very slowly. Now.

Tadpoles galore. I just like watching them turn into peep frogs.

Woodpeckers. How do they do that without busting their little bird skulls open?

Grampus. No idea what the proper name for it is. It's a savage looking insect with huge mandibles about 4 inches long.

The plant life along that strip of mountains is also worth exploring, 60 species of native orchid up there. A whole world of wonder is around us, even if you live in the city, or in suburbia. Look closely or you might miss it.

Waaayyylll, out heeya on the farm we have our whatcha call doe-masticated critturs, then ya gots the wilduns. I came up on a small red vixen in my barn one summer day, hanging out with the horses. She just looked at me and continued her sunbathing. Yup, rabies.
When the big drought hit 3 or 4 years ago, the pond that waters the cattle became a mudpit. A huge, p***ed off blue heron was stuck, both feet, about 3 yards into the pond--bad landing choice, ah reckon.
We have a small pod of coyotes that wander the fields and woods; skitter away so far, but one of the kittens disappeared.
Big ole tom turkeys fly out in front of one when walking down a trail; had a hawk swoop last sunday, filly almost bucked me off. And owls perch in trees in the afternoon to attack the sunbathing mice.
Bobcat prints and screams, but no sight, or even scat. And these critters called "yankees" have been moving into house clusters. taking up good trail land. sigh.

I found a reddish/orange frog in my backyard once. I know, nothing great, but I'd never seen one before, nor in my area. We get bullfrogs and leopard frogs, but I've never seen a reddish/orange one there. Only ones I've seen like that were at a zoo and they were tree frogs. *Shrug*

Other than that: black, red, gray and fox squirrels, snakes, chipmunks, deer and lots of birds.

Lila, I think you missed your big opportunity. I believe that was one of those
MAGICAL frogs that grant any wish!!!!! They don't exist down here in the sun belt any longer, got pushed out by bible-thumpers!!! along with all the other magical creatures. . . LOL :sad:

At my current house I've only found toads. Same at the old house. The old house before that, I've found snakes, toads and fireflys.

I've also seen a fox, turtles and herons while mountain biking. Also stoped to see the native fish more than once...

fish_freak said:

Probably the most common things I see are squirels, skunks, ground hogs, snakes, and turkey's. I also come across the ocasional deer, moose, black bear, bob cat, cyotee, and lost of other critters.

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You saw black bear in CT ? I never saw anything but birds when I lived there (I thought all animals moved out west). But then again, I was in Manchester, CT in one of those mills. What self-respecting black bear would want to visit the mills ?

Now in OH, on the property I've seen bunnies, deer, snakes, baby toads (hence the snakes), a blue heron and once, a woodpecker on my birdfeeder. In winter, you can hear coyotes down by the creek behind my house.

Oh yeah...lots of turtles and toads. The toads always get between our screen and back door then try to get in the house when we open the doors.

Magic frog?! ****! I missed a great opportunity!

Lila...I've seen indication that you indeed kissed the frog and he turned into a verry hot prince