Whats in your backyard?

The most we see in our yard are Jack Rabbits, Blue Jays, Magpies, Chickadees and Sparrows, Pigeons, Robbins, and other common Albertan birds... A few years ago we saw a squirrel, and when we first moved here, there were brown bats.

Nearby at an old military base turned gated community, there are Canada Geese, various species of ducks, pheasants, wood frogs, boreal chorus frogs, red winged black birds, etc.
 
woke up this morning to the worst bird call ever, its was a group of crows and a group of magpies arguing at each other, and it went on for 30 minutes, i had a damn headache at the end of it!
 
Well the Bandicoots in my yard have dug so many holes in the lawn maybe I should hire it out for golf LOL
 
Sounds like the lawn of our holiday house at phillip island. Only its the rabbits.
 
I just thought of another animal that wasn't really in our backyard but they were the coolest things i've ever seen. We found two blind snakes when we were digging holes for fence posts.
 
other day we got an eastern spinebill in our garden. after moving into suburbia this was quite exciting as they were rarely seen even in the country
 
today in my backyard i seen a noisy miner. It's the first time i have seen one in my area. i am a bit worried about seeing it because of their aggresion. red wattlebirds have already taken over the grevillea's at my house now with another honey eater in the area i probably will stop seeing the little honeyeaters like the lewins, new holland and eastern spinebill.
 
I had a greater spotted woodpecker, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Gold crest, Wren, Robin, Blue tit, coal tit, great tit, tree creeper, Blackbird, feral pigeon and Collared dove in my garden last saturday!
 
Noisy Miners drive me crazy Boof. We had a pair that were really aggressive toward humans and would swoop at me and my family and they weren't afraid of making contact either. So every year we would take their nest out of the tree and eventually they moved away.
 
This guy (among others) also lives in my garden (Limax maximus) ;)
 

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The birds around my house are:
Rock Dove (rare)
Eurasian Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove (rare)
Budgerigar (only once, i assume it was someone's pet that escaped)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (only once)
Blue Jay
American Crow (rare)
Bewick's Wren
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
House Finch
House Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird (rare)
Great-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
 
Aside from dandelions....

American robin
mourning dove
American crow
black-billed magpie
red-tailed hawk
American kestrel
red-winged blackbird
California quail
northern flicker
dark-eyed junco
house sparrow
house finch
and the occaisional eastern fox squirrel

that list varies by season to a great degree
 
We really can't compete in the UK can we ?

I've lived in North Herts towns for the last 19 years ..... currently, although 10 mins from the town centre, my cul de sac backs straight onto a field so I guess that kind of counts as country, and hearing foxes make that strange barking they do (especially at this time of the year) is common, as well as hearing owls hooting when you're lying in bed.

I don't get much in my back garden unless it is dead - or half dead - thanks to my cats. All sorts of rodents - rats, mice, and shrews, plus quite a lot of baby birds and rabbits. I do quite often find frogs amongst my plants though despite me or my immediate neighbours not having a pond.

In Hitchin, where I lived for 10 years, and later, in Stotfold (a village about 7 miles north) we regularly got black squirrels. It always bemuses me when these are reported as some kind of news story every so often because they seemed so common. They are associated in particular with nearby Letchworth (3 miles from Hitchin) and are obviously happily breeding and spreading - though I've not seen any in Royston yet. I also had small deer in my very small garden on 3 occasions - muntjac ?

My Hitchin neighbour also had a European Eagle Owl in his garden - but that was there by design, not accident !
 
i live near shepparton and used to live right on the edge of town next to the bush. we always saw kookaburras, eastern grey kangaroos, possums etc but now after moving right in the center of town the most exciting thing i ever see is a crow.

i recall something said ealier about melbourne being infested with possums. well i was doing a roar "n" snore at melbourne zoo and i swear i sore 100+ possums rummaging through the bins and getting what scraps they can from the exhibits. one of the keepers told me the carnivore keepers had to subsitute the animals diet because they ate the possums.
 
Right I have a pair of Coal Tits, six Long Tailed Tits, pair of Great Tits, pair of Blue Tits, Tree Creeper, Nuthatch, male Common Pheasant, Robins, Blackbirds, Collared Doves, Wood Pigeons, Rooks, Green Woodpeckers, Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, the occasional Sparrowhawk, Fieldfares, Redwings, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Wren, Wasps :S, etc etc No mammals that I have seen though
 
I live in a part of the UK known as The Black Country and I'm extremely lucky as my back garden actually backs on to countryside and I have alot of visitors from Red foxes, Badgers, Rabbits, Birds of all sorts from kestrels, Buzzards, owls of all kinds, Blue tits, Longtailled tits, Blackcaps and many more,
Hedgehogs, field mice, pheasants, even had some small deer pinching the vegetables and many more I suppose it was living here that gave my desire to take up animal photography.
 
im also on the north shore of sydney. we have a very dominant and vocal brush tail possum and his many girlfriends... a blue tongue, a million skinks, tawny frog mouths, what im pretty sure is a barking owl, the occasional funnelweb spider, golden orb weavers (spider), black rats (grrrrrr!), rainbow lorrikeets, the occasional pair of king parrots and their chick..... i think thats it........
 
I dont have a garden as we live in an apartment , however i know in gardens here in Mexico city there are geckos , other types of lizards , sparrows and songbirds , scorpians , tarantulas , false coral snakes , some green parrots , occasionally falcons and occasionally the odd rattlesnake in the suburbs of the city, also Coatis , coyotes ,grey foxes and possoums in the state just outside of the city. In the south of my country in such states as Chiapas i imagine the fuana that visit gardens is much more colorful such as macaws , amazon parrots , ocelots , jaguarundis , boas and iguanas not to mention the ever present and mischevious Coati. In the rainy season my apartment is always invaded by centipedes and pairs of alacrans or scorpians as they are known in other countries which are luckily harmless but get into very awkward places like bookshelves , slippers , the refrigerator and cups of cofee.
 
I live in Southern Ontario and this is what we get...

Within the backyard (In the bird category)... we get Red Cardinal, Blue Jays, Grackles, Common Sparrows, Gold Finches, Robins, occasionally Chikadees, Mourning Doves, Starlings and Pigeons

We have had a Red-Tailed Hawk catch, kill and devour a Pigeon in a our backyard before while we watched and ate dinner :P

Now for mammals in our backyard... We have more squirrels than humanly imaginable (We have a speciaized squirrel feeder and a several huge trees, so its somewhat obvious why they live and breed here), we get a fair amount of rabbits, we get the odd raccoon and we have once before seen an opossum. We have also had a muskrat go through our yard before

For reptiles, we occasionally get garter snakes and common toads

Now, as for our local, small town area and surrounding forest/trails, here is the list

Black bear (rarely seen)
Coyotes
White tailed deer (extremly common)
Bobcat (rarely seen)
River otters
Beavers (very small population)
Mountain lion (very small population)
Bald eagle (very small population)
Kingfisher
Heron
Wood turkey
 
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