Whats the Strangest WildLife you've seen where you live

[WildKat]

Seen some wild beaver and a couple cougars in the bar tonight

[mrwho]

got some wild pigs running litterally in my backyard. see deers running around in our subdivision from time to time

[mrwho]

Originally Posted by WildKat

Seen some wild beaver and a couple cougars in the bar tonight

come on wildkat..u know the question we're all having in our minds right now!

[mikkii10]

Originally Posted by 3PtShooter

think i smelled bigfoot, no actual siteing

body oder eew

[mikkii10]

Originally Posted by Boris Karloff

Come to think of it, in my mid-teens I was fishing in the Ottawa River behind the Parliament buildings and caught something huge. When I reeled it and it surfaced I could see two eyes, (something like an octopus' top of the skull with two eyes)...I freaked out and threw my fishing rod at it and backed off. Some people said it may have been a big muskeylunge but I doubt it--different type of head.

In that Bay water is very deep. They already pulled some ships from Champlain back in the colonial days...and there are more ships down there, some for deep divers to explore, some have yet to be discovered because it is so murky in those depths because they used that waterway for logging for years and many went down rotting.

What was it? anybody's guess is as good as mine.

it is called a ling we have them here to on the island

[Keith]

we have squirrels here on Long Island.

LOL

[Boris Karloff]

Originally Posted by mikkii10

it is called a ling we have them here to on the island

I just looked at a ling pic and it's similar to a muskey. Maybe it was it, maybe not. If I would have reeled it in I would have gotten nice $ at the market for it whatever it was.

[darth wager]

Originally Posted by Boris Karloff

Come to think of it, in my mid-teens I was fishing in the Ottawa River behind the Parliament buildings and caught something huge. When I reeled it and it surfaced I could see two eyes, (something like an octopus' top of the skull with two eyes)...I freaked out and threw my fishing rod at it and backed off. Some people said it may have been a big muskeylunge but I doubt it--different type of head.

In that Bay water is very deep. They already pulled some ships from Champlain back in the colonial days...and there are more ships down there, some for deep divers to explore, some have yet to be discovered because it is so murky in those depths because they used that waterway for logging for years and many went down rotting.

What was it? anybody's guess is as good as mine.

Originally Posted by Boris Karloff

I just looked at a ling pic and it's similar to a muskey. Maybe it was it, maybe not. If I would have reeled it in I would have gotten nice $ at the market for it whatever it was.

there's a water monster legend in eastern Ontario, so maybe this is it:
Mussie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Meeps]

Tops for me was the arctic wolves in Northern Nunavut (about 1/2 of them had blood all over their faces - they had just taken down a musk-ox apparently).

According to a bear hunting guide who operated in the area where some friends and I did some camping (this was off of the Dempster highway in the Tombstone Mountains, Yukon - above treeline), a grizzly was within a kilometre or two of our tent a few times as we spent a few days exploring the area. We were taking all the necessary precautions regarding stashing our food, toothpaste, deodorant, etc and had bear bells + never stopped talking to ourselves / singing if we were wandering on our own. Not sure the "bear spray" would have done much.
We saw wolverine scat on some of the higher terrain, but not the beast itself (they are pretty elusive).

At home in Ontario I've seen the same as posters above (black bear, fox, moose, deer, beaver, muskrat), but also a fisher. Across the river in the Gatineau hills I was cycling (singletrack) through a hydro clearing with friends once (I was last), and a lynx (?) (it was some sort of cat) was following us along the edge of the clearing. The second I opened my mouth to alert the others, it was gone.

[grzftbl]

Not strange but cool. From the local paper. This was about 1.5-2 miles from my house.



EDIT: Caption

DAVID GRUBBS/Gazette Staff
A bald eagle launches into the air from his water perch recently on the Yellowstone River in Billings. A fair number of the birds have been seen near the bridge over the Yellowstone on South Billings Boulevard.

[Boris Karloff]

Originally Posted by darth wager

there's a water monster legend in eastern Ontario, so maybe this is it:
Mussie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've heard of Mussie but it can't be him because he's in a lake. My sighting was in a river. Lakes and Rivers don't connect, at least aren't supposed to--they are self-contained whereas rivers constantly flow???

[Boris Karloff]

Originally Posted by Meeps

Tops for me was the arctic wolves in Northern Nunavut (about 1/2 of them had blood all over their faces - they had just taken down a musk-ox apparently).

According to a bear hunting guide who operated in the area where some friends and I did some camping (this was off of the Dempster highway in the Tombstone Mountains, Yukon - above treeline), a grizzly was within a kilometre or two of our tent a few times as we spent a few days exploring the area. We were taking all the necessary precautions regarding stashing our food, toothpaste, deodorant, etc and had bear bells + never stopped talking to ourselves / singing if we were wandering on our own. Not sure the "bear spray" would have done much.
We saw wolverine scat on some of the higher terrain, but not the beast itself (they are pretty elusive).

At home in Ontario I've seen the same as posters above (black bear, fox, moose, deer, beaver, muskrat), but also a fisher. Across the river in the Gatineau hills I was cycling (singletrack) through a hydro clearing with friends once (I was last), and a lynx (?) (it was some sort of cat) was following us along the edge of the clearing. The second I opened my mouth to alert the others, it was gone.

Hey neighbour!!! The Lynx is a very beautiful cat. A fair amount in the region.

Deers are a dime a dozen. Subs often wake up in the morning with deers in their yard.

Also lots of small red foxes roaming around in the forest.

[darth wager]

Originally Posted by Boris Karloff

I've heard of Mussie but it can't be him because he's in a lake. My sighting was in a river. Lakes and Rivers don't connect, at least aren't supposed to--they are self-contained whereas rivers constantly flow???

maybe he hitchhiked

[garyrenard]

In my town, we have a mouse that wears pants and a duck in a sailor suit.