What's the last wild creature you have seen?

[NaMeaHou]

The last I dealt with was a miniature spider hanging on to life by a thread in my shower. I had mercy.

[HEyHEY]

1. A huge Black Squirrel that has an understanding of live and let live

WIth the cat...yup this squirell is THAT big....he'd whoop Otis's ass while I laughed in the distance

[NaMeaHou]

14. That is unbelievably hilarious

I'll go to sleep laughing again by reading that!

[Deja Q]

2. George W Bush

Saw a few pictures of him today.

[CatWoman]

3. does a buffalo qualify?

my brother took me up to this mountain top in Oklahoma, and on the trail sat this big ass buffalo.

I started screaming.

My brother has never let me forget it :D

[NaMeaHou]

17. Sure

but I wonder what the civilized buffalo thought about your screaming?

:)

[CatWoman]

20. I don't know, but he was one huge fucker

:scared:

[Ohio Dem]

4. Chipmunks ravaging the chestnut harvest.

I suppose that's better than the chestnuts going to waste, like they would if there weren't chipmunks. They always get gathered up and then sit there in the kitchen until someone throws them over the hill for the squirrels. As long as I get a handful, I don't care. Little fellers have to eat something, and it gives the cats something to watch from inside.

Everybody's happy.

[Dookus]

5. the three

brazen smartass raccoons who tried to come through my cat door last night. I bopped one on the head with a broomstick and sprayed all of 'em with the garden hose.

They're cute as hell, but goddamn, they're ballsy! If they don't back away from a 230 lb guy swingin' a broomstick at 'em, they're a little too uppity for my tastes.

[Lizz612]

6. The heron in the pond.

Its call is rather ugly, but the bird is beautiful.

edit: I swear I can spell, I swear

[blackcat77]

7. A coyote

Standing in our side yard. Came as quite a surprise, needless to say.

Earlier, my wife had taken the dogs out shortly after dark when she heard a snarl from the field -- the dogs immediately took off after it -- I'm guessing it was a coyote as well -- with my wife yelling for them to come back. They did, in their own sweet time of course, and with looks of great satisfaction on their faces for running off the intruder.

This was a couple months ago and nothing's been seen since, so I guess they scared it off pretty good.

(I'm not counting the usual squirrels and chipmonks as wild animals, btw)

[WillParkinson]

8. On the way to work...

I saw a fox or coyote. It was neat.

[Kolesar]

9. I saw a Bighorn Sheep on a checkerboard mesa at Zion National Park

This was two weeks ago during my vacation. It sure looked beautiful against that checked sandstone backdrop. I'll post some pics here soon.

[NaMeaHou]

12. Please post those pics!

That sounds great.

[rasputin1952]

10. Red tailed squirrels, rabbits and garter snakes...

all on & in my front lawn today.

They should pretty well be gone in the next few days, especially the garters, they have a nest under my front lawn!

:bounce:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Does my pet conure and the local geckos qualify?

[NaMeaHou]

15. What's a conure?

geckos are for luck, so you bet they qualify!

[Mikimouse]

13. I caught a Solpugid in my neighbors house

Really a very neat arachnid, not really a spider, but similar in appearance. Two of the front legs have a sticky substance at the end and they can easily walk up the side of a glass jar. This one was lightening fast and easily caught the flies we put in the jar. They have visible 'jaws' and they work their prey back and forth while sucking the juices out. Fascinating creatures-the only one I have ever seen in the flesh, all the others have been in entomology textbooks. Cool!

[Skip Intro]

16. A few months ago, a red fox ran in front of my car

In a very populated area, on a very busy road leading from a big residential area to a traffic-packed 8-lane "strip".

That same day I saw a turkey on a "driveway" to a shopping center, totally out of place, and later I saw an AMC Pacer - mobile.

Very weird day.

[maxanne]

18. a flock of wild turkeys

the other day, on my way to work. I see fox on a regular basis - and saw a lot of moose in the spring - including the one I hit with my car.

[greendog]

19. Grizzly bear and mountain goat...

... a couple of weeks ago on a hike in Glacier National Park. On the drive to the trailhead we saw a couple of black bears.

[HEyHEY]

21. I love Glacier

The "make a mistake and die" road through the summit is my favourite

[greendog]

25. That's a crazy road!

Several friends and I rode our bikes up to Logan Pass and back down on the night of the full moon last July. Did it once - won't do it again.

[soothsayer]

22. cute raccoon scampering across the road last night, plus

2 deer grazing on the side of the road (he, with a nice rack)

[NightTrain]

23. The guy in the trailer park to whom I delived a prescription today.

Wildlife doesn't get much wilder than that!

[nini]

24. An eagle in Alaska..

very beautiful bird..

[Shanty Oilish]

26. Besides my daughter? Well...

...it hardly compares, but today I saw a pheasant. I see possums every day.
Birds, squirrels. My cats, when they think I'm not watching.

[supernova]

27. A Hawk

a pair of them actually, circling lazily above my house yesterday morning. Raptors always fascinate me.

[Clete]

28. Living in the country, I see so many everyday,

lots of insects and spiders, gophers, red tail hawks and a variety of birds that feed at by bird feeder, also possums, skunks and deer.

[mitchum]

29. A deer in the backyard half an hour ago

[Lisa]

30. a bald eagle circling over my workplace, yesterday

Amazingly, it's located in a city of 300,000 people -- but there are enough natural areas that it supports quite a lot of wildlife.

[Catshrink]

31. A coyote ran across the road ...

in front of me on the way home from work today.

And then there was the gecko Ricky brought me last night. Good kitty. (blech!)

[Pert_UK]

32. Kangaroos.....hundreds of them......

Lined up in the bunker and on the tee of the golf course I played on Monday.

P.

[xJlM]

33. Lots of critters where I live

I see tons of birds every day, plus lots of four-legged animals if I want to look. Here in the house I've been getting disgusted with all the ladybugs. One of the bastards bit me the other day...

[Pithlet]

34. The most memorable one

was a brown bear. I was in a 24 hr mountainbike race and it was dusk. I saw it in the shadow my bike light was casting, and thought it looked like a bear, but must be some big stump, or a trail sign. I whizzed right by it. I could have reached out and touched it I was so close. I didn't realize it was an actual bear until I met up with another rider who asked me if I saw that bear a mile back.

[BrotherBuzz]

35. Pair of Barn owls

that for more then ten years has spent half of each year in my maple tree. I have even seen them doing the big nasty and get to watch them raising their young; two, and one time three, chicks every year. They are my friends because they keep pigeon and rodent populations in check.

[VOX]

36. An opossum, walking across the street in front of my house...

Had the headlingts on him. You know by the way he walks, or waddles, or whatever, that he ain't no cat or dog.

Funny guy!