What wildlife inhabits your backyard?

We are pretty new to our house and now are home all the time so I think we are seeing lots but keeping more away. Our dog Echo is helping.


We have lots of birds: chickadees, yellow finches, blue jays, robins, tufted titmice, mourning doves, turkey vultures, cardinals, woodpeckers, kestrel hawks, quail, turkeys and just for Kirk Lilwall‍ barred owls can be heard most days. We have seen deer. Seen evidence of coyotes and foxes. Lots of peepers and green frogs in the neighborhood. My son and I are going to start studying bird silhouettes as we have a lot of open sky and decent elevation. 

LOVING this thread! I have several bird feeders so I have a lot of bird visitors. Also squirrels, chipmunks, and a thirteen-lined ground squirrel who is quite cute. We're having some flowers planted so I hope to see more butterflies.

Wow, I want to come sit in some of your backyards!!


Here, a variety of birds: doves, finch, sparrow, wren, black birds and unfriendly blue jays. In the past a number of squirrels but this year they seem to have been replaced by rabbits. Can almost always find at least one rabbit in view. Watched four eating/playing one evening.


Also a population of bumble bees hovering on some of my flowers/sage plant. What a wonder they are to watch. How God enables them to fly!


And we have deer.  They bed down in the neighbor's yard so we can see them through the chain link fence. 

And my personal least favorite - garter snakes. I can watch them crawl through grass, just don't like it when they startle me. Was amazed once to watch two smaller ones seeming to chase and play in the grass in the front yard. 

I live in downtown Calgary (Alberta, Canada), so I don't really have a yard, but I do have lots of pigeons who sit on the roof of the building next door and enjoy taunting my cats through the balcony doors. Otherwise, my only wildlife would be the flock of shopping carts that seem to get left in the alley behind us!  ?

Since the quarantine began, we have nightly visits from the herd.  While only three are visiting in this photo, we have had as many as 20.  They show up shortly before dusk as they move to the nearby park.  I enjoy watching the mamas with their fawns.  Earlier this week I saw a doe with three, possibly four fawns.  She had her hands (hooves?) full!

Patti - that picture of your cat and the iguana just made my day!!


I live in the midwest, near a park, so we have the usual birds, squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, raccoons, snakes, possum, and deer, and sometimes coyote. The most unusual thing is when I'm awakened some mornings by a Barred Owl. It's a great sound. Google it if you've never heard it.