I found this momma and baby sleeping in the backyard the other day and was wondering what else lurked in ya'lls backyard around the world.

Squirrels, mostly. A small group of pigeons.

Herons, swans, a stork, and diverse waterfowl. In the centre of Amsterdam

The occasional burglar, next doors cats.

Have had a huge frog and an urban fox on my front doorstep, although not at the same time

A badger during the summer (though it might have been a Griffin), but my nan who lives two doors up feeds it along with a couple of foxes so I can hardly blame it for sticking around. It digs for wasps nests too.

Our next door neighbour had a dozen sheep on his patio last week. After find a cow in our garden a few years back we have now fitted substantial fencing!

Gareth

Deer(Much like those in the photo), Badgers, Foxes, Canada Geese in profusion, Herons (Not so often since they finished off my daughter's goldfish),sheep, cows, cats, horses and of course boxers - curiously enough ostriches. Add to that geordies selling fish "Fresh from the docks" which have made the journey to North Yorkshire in around 3 hours in an unrefrigerated van - don't ask me why, it's a recent phenomenon, as welcome as Jehovah's witnesses!

At night: homeless drunks. During the day: employed drunks from local business on liquid lunch break.

-brendan

Blackbirds, thrushes, magpies, bluetits, wood pigeons, cats, dogs, frogs and foxes. Nothing exciting.

Squirrels (both grey and black), the occasional o'possum, a red fox, a den of rabbits. And a raccoon with a taste for garbage (though the Tabasco sauce seems to be working for now ).

-jk

That looks like my backyard as well. We very often get deer (very, very often). Then the squirrels, foxes, racoons, badgers ("we don't need no stinkin' badgers"), and all sorts of animals that get run over on our street.

A few times in the 19 years my family has lived there, we've gotten brown bears.

I love living with at least some wildlife around. It's neat. It's not suprising that we get it, considering it's about a 5 minute walk from the end of my street to a large creek (it's nearly a small river), which is then a 10 minute walk to the edge of the Patomac river (the undeveloped part of it). I'm about as rural as you can get, living 20 minutes outside of Washington DC.

If d33zy posted a photo like that it would be in green with crosshairs in the middle...

If d33zy posted a photo like that it would be in green with crosshairs in the middle...

One of the few uses of such crosshairs I condone.

/me doesn't like deer at all.

Greetings!

WHAT!?!?!? When cooked properly, venison is GREAT!!!

When cooked properly, venison is GREAT!!!

Mmm, venison in mole sauce (that's mole the Mexican bitter chocolate stuff, not mole the backyard wildlife)...

Peter

I am almost out in the boonies so get lots of deer, possums, frogs, toads, coyotes, buzzards, racers etc etc.
I can live with them, its the various not-so-nices that I can live without. Like tarrantula, cottonmouths, rattlers etc.
They scare the hell out of me with a curious two year old boy!

I forgot to mention - during the summer we have four of these in the garden (well, one like this and three similar)



Actually, it's hardly wildlife but they're cute!

Those are definately cool! The only turtles that I've seen out back are the Box Turtles.

I should point out they are pets... unfortunately it's *far* too cold in the winter for tortoises. Ours live in a neighbour's cellar from November to March.

Gareth

I don't have any pictures but I have a family of rabbits that live under a large pine tree in my backyard, plus squirrels, raccoons, moles, chipmunks and some deer that pass through. My yard backs up into a county park.

Do effing mice in the attic count?

If not: dog poop, squirrels and crows.

-Zeke

I have bats also living in the eaves of my house, who ignore the perfectly nice bat houses I put up for them.

Why would they want a bat house when they have YOUR house?

It is always so much more fun pooping in _other_ people's houses. Who can blame them?

-Zeke

And when you have big trees at the bottom of the garden and put up lovely birdhouses, where do the housemartins decide to live?

Directly above the bedroom window, raining poop down onto the half-roof over the living room. Was very glad when the young left - demolished the entire thing with a large stick.

Have bought netting for next year - to cover the eaves, not to catch housemartins, silly.

I have two of these

http://www.westjohnstone.org.uk/pictures/displayimage.php?album=9&pid=95