Visitor in my backyard!

Frogs! I hate the darn bullfrongs in my back yard.  At night they come up out of the lake, and croak all freakin night long.  I have resorted to sleeping with my head phones on. 

Frogs! I hate the darn bullfrongs in my back yard. At night they come up out of the lake, and croak all freakin night long. I have resorted to sleeping with my head phones on.

 
It's not that bad here, but at 9 - 10 when I take Panda out for her final resroom break, he ends up chasing them around.

I love the sound of frogs- especially eepers!

We had a turkey come through our yard.  Not unusual for NH, but I live a block from a super busy street/route and intersection and it's a beach town that can be pretty densely populated - not exactly turkey habitat territory.  The turkey was about 6 miles out of place. 
However, I'd rather him than the old lady trailing a bucket full of silverware in a cart who cut through my yard last Sunday.  Bang! Clang! Cachang as the cart bumped over the rocks, dirt and roots. Sent all the dogs into a barking tizzy, and she did it 4 times in 2 hours!

we have seen turkies in the field behind our house. wild turkies are much nicer looking than the farm raised ones. plus they make a nice burbon[]

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How cool!!!  Ive never seen a deer in real life[8|]

you should visit SC. we have a deer over population. they have even extended the hunting season and added more "doe days".

when i was in college a friend of mine was in some animal sciences program (not vet though). they were tracking the number of deer in an area only a couple of miles from campus. he said on most night they went out, they would count 100-200 deer (minimum) in a small field.

I live in South carolina to. I remeber in 2002 i went out in my backyard and i saw a whole group of deers around about 5-8. I think they was drinking water becase we have a creek in the back.

The turkey was about 6 miles out of place. 

 
 
During the warm weeks in Jan/Feb of this year, there were consistently 3 turkeys that would hang out under the chairlift on an extremely busy ski trail. All the kids got a kick out of it though [].
 
I miss seeing deer, turkeys, foxes and what not in my back yard. But, even though I spent the majority of my life on a woodland fringe, I saw my first raccoon and possum this year! [8D]

My SIL and BIL live in Wyoming, and one day they awoke to a loud noise and what felt like a small earthquake (they felt their bedroom shaking).  BIL looked out the window to see a huge elk rubbing his antlers against the house.  He was so big that he made the wall vibrate!
 
We live in one of those horribly over-developed places where they keep disturbing wildlife to build more homes.  Until recently, the property next to our neighborhood was a Christmas tree farm, and lots of critters made their way onto our block.  A couple Christmas Eve's ago, I was walking our dog quite late at night, and I looked at my neighbor's front lawn and said, "Hmmm, I don't remember them having one of those deer decorations there."  As we got closer, both Tonka and I nearly jumped out of our skin when the "statue" bounded in front of us down the street. 
 
We also have seen a pair of quail poking around our yard a couple times.  They're really neat looking with the little doo-dads on their foreheads!

If any of you are ever in Shasta Lake City, California... you can go see the dam deer at Shasta Dam.  Sounds great doesn't it...
 
They are small, but they come down from the hillside in large numbers (sometimes 20 or 30) around 9 pm or so. Earlier in the winter months. Just to eat the nice watered, green grass by the parking lot.
 
The only visitor I get in my back yard is a tick. Maybe a grasshopper if I'm lucky.

I get lots of frogs, I am constantly saving their lives by taking them out of the pool... I keep forgetting, I ment to get a lilly pad thing for them.  Snakes too.. b/c we are some on the ONLY people left with a patch of woods behind the house.  Not a big one, and the hurricane took out about 60% of it... but it there instead of a house nonetheless. []

We get turkeys a lot too.  We live near a busy street, but there are wooded areas all around.  One day there were about 6 turkeys just walking down the street.  They didn't care one bit about all the people around! [sm=proud.gif]

Gosh, what a surprise.
We only really get cockatoos and other native birds in our backyard. And possums.

Only visitors we get around here is skunks either eating with neighbor cats or in our garage, racoons, possums, mice, goose, bats, and owls.
 
 Yeah deer are bad in Ohio. Two weeks before christmas my mom hit a deer and the darn thing destroyed her car and she had the car only for 3 months.
 
Between my work and home during the summer and fall there is at least 15 deers dead along the side of the road in a months time. Work for me is only 15 miles away.
 
I know one time when my dad and I went hiking it was during the deer breeding season. We had a huge buck come chasing after us he had 19 point rack, lets just say I ran all the way to car. My dad stopped running 5 mintues after the buck stopped chasing us. He wanted me to go back with him and watch the buck. We didn't go back because I wasn't leaving that car.

Wouldn't you know it, I saw another wild turkey just strutting through someone's yard on my way home from work!  My sister gets flocks of them (do turkeys "flock") almost every year.  Literally 12 to 15 of them just walking around.  And those suckers FLY!  Takes them a bit to get airborne, but they do it!