I have two northern white-breasted hedgehogs in my garden that ‘moved’ here this summer (here is the observation of the two hedgehogs) and a quite big and noisy flock of magpies coming around often (here’s one of the specimens and a tail feather)
Moose, steller’s jays, and black billed magpies. (The steller’s jays bury peanuts in the dirt.)
Oh, also robins in the spring.
Moose? Geez you’re so lucky! Don’t you have any fence? I have one to keep stray dogs out, otherwise some deer would enter my garden too!
Besides the birds, we have had adult tolocs living in the garden for years.
(They have green babies every year.)
We also have Opossums who come to eat figs.
And bats! Two kinds, big and small, but they fly too fast for me to make Observations.
And we have small anoles and iguanas, plus garden mice and such. (While wild, these don’t really feel like they fit what is being asked, though.)
I mean, I’m not sure Myrmica fracticornis is the kind of animal you are looking for…, but they are what I notice most in the garden, and I have been stung by them while working in the garden. The animals I wish I didn’t have are cabbage white butterflies, the caterpillars eat the plants. I wish the ants would eat the caterpillars
Also a lot of deer, which can also eat the garden
We have metal fencing around our berry bushes and such. It helps keep out the moose, though they usely still find some way to eat our plants.
I live in a rural area with deer everywhere and I have seen coyotes and foxes crossing the road, but never a moose (heard one though). Where do you have moose in your yard?
My very small, fenced suburban yard is frequently visited by the following mammals (plus many birds):
Red Fox (my favorite visitor)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156120358
Eastern Cottontail (I live in fear of seeing the fox catch the rabbits)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/154725821
Eastern Chipmunk (so cute!)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162149848
White-tailed Deer (so many, and they eat everything)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151921651
Eastern Gray Squirrel (lots and lots of them)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110281734
Groundhogs…
I’m not completely sure what you mean. Are you asking where in my yard I can see moose?
Daily visitors are: Northern Cardinal, House Sparrow, Blue Jays, House Finches, and Eastern Gray Squirrels.
Common visitors are: Downy Woodpeckers, Eastern Cottontails, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, American Goldfinches, Black-capped Chickadees, White-breasted Nuthatches, Hairy Woodpeckers and Mourning Doves.
Occasional and seasonal visitors: Dark-eyed Juncos, European Starlings, American Robins, and various small mammals: Shrews, mice, and voles.
and… Red-tailed Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, Sharp-shinned Hawks, and Merlins… soaring over the neighborhood or hunting any of the above in our backyard.
Total (to date) species count for yard*:
birds: 57
mammals: 9
arachnids: 24
insects: 206 (not bad for an urban yard)
and snails, slugs, millipedes, centipedes,
*at iNat - I’ve seen stuff that hasn’t been posted here
Like what part of the world you are in that you have moose in your yard
Oh, ok. Thanks for clarifying.
I live in Alaska. Just outside of a small town called Anchor Point to be precise.
Mainly Anoles, squirrels, lepidoptera and Green Iguanas whom sure like my orchids :'(
I wish to reserve the right to amend my post because I just added my very first scat Observation, and since I could only identify it to “Animals” I am not sure if it is one I already named.
Ah, now the moose make sense
Ring tail possums are frequent visitors. (More like residents I guess).
House Sparrows, Stray Cats, and Starlings… maybe the occasional mourning dove, northern cardinal, and very occasionally a few Whitetail Deer.
We get a lot of different species visitors to our yard in Austin, but we have a pollinator garden so we get a good numbers of moths, butterflies, and various insects. Around here fox squirrels like the live oaks and safety of suburbs so there’s big colonies of them, and I’ve spotted raccoons, opossums, a rare armadillo, occasional black rats (always there, really, but rarely seen), a hispid cotton mouse, and field mice out there. I see Gulf Coast toads often, green anoles, Mediterranean geckoes (population dropping with fewer insects), Texas spiny lizards, skinks, and a nice diversity of birds.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/luling-lane-pollinator-garden?tab=species
