wild life that dosnt belong

[scotty30-06]

Hey everyone after reading the moose in abby thread got me thinking.....where else have people seen wildlife where it dosnt belong....i remember seeing a ring necked pheasant in my back yard in North delta....first and only time I have ever seen that....and yes I know delta has pheasants....just not normally in North delta...so anyone else have sightings or experience with this?

[pnbrock]

used to have grouse stealing cherries off our tree when i was a kid .old 64 across from watershed.

[northof49]

Once saw a billy in the middle of a pine plateau with no visible mountains. Was the colour of mud and looked like had been to hell and back. Searching for new digs I guess. Sure had me do a double take.

[MichelD]

I had a beaver in my back yard pond once. I live in East Vancouver near Victoria Drive and Hastings Street.

No joke, this was a web-footed, bucktoothed flat tailed beaver.

[Ohwildwon]

There was a marmot living on the beach in White Rock a few years back, east of the pier....

Made the local rag, figured it had hitched a train ride...

Disappeared after a couple months...

[Hillerbillyvan]

Ive actually come across a few, hard to make your buddys even believe you sometimes
Couple that stand out in my memory rite now would be the turkey I saw in backside east harrison
And the lonely cow elk hanging out with a large group of muley in a buddys field sunshine valley-merritt
I was in a stand trying to fill a doe tag, didnt even occur to me as possible at first so when she entered the field way off in the distance all i thought was WOW how can a deer that friggin big have no antlers!

[ACE]

Saw a large gaunt wolf going through some bags of garbage at the big pull-out just south of Lytton .... early morning.

[scotty30-06]

Maybe wasn't garbage in those bags lol

[Steelpulse]

Not to wild but pheastant running along the shore in boundary bay while duck hunting. Obviously just a released bird

[scotty30-06]

^^^^why do you say that....my friend lives in Ladner and sees them a fair bit

[Fella]

Theres a large covey of Quail that live at the top of the mountain that I live on. Threw me for a loop when we first moved here because I thought they were only in the Okanagan

[caddisguy]

Good thread! Lol

Whitetails on trailcam in Chilliwack/Hope area

Wolf on Langley bypass near 56th (going after goslings and goose eggs)

2 wolverines ... live one eating dead one, also Langley bypass near 56th

Not sure if this one counts but we were driving down an FSR about 25kms from any residential area and no campers... it was around 1am and we spotted a house cat on the road. There had been a missing cat sign posted at the nearest gas station a couple weeks prior... not sure if it was the same cat (it didn't want anything to do with us) but was surprised to see a house cat in an area with bobcats, coyotes, cougars, coons, etc

[wideopenthrottle]

I used to see deer and pheasants on Annacis Island about 10 years ago before it was all built up

[Wild one]

Seen species in places most don't think they belong so many times now I think little of it. Watched populations grow in areas they were never seen in the past. Animals expand their range and travel where they please they don't listen to humans

Things are ever changing and lots of animals go unnoticed when they are in small numbers or a secretive species

[wideopenthrottle]

I was reading recently about a bird that has been wildly successful in expanding their range....https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2017/04/05/these-spangly-hummingbirds-are-moving-north-to-alaska/#1dab085c5f9e

[lovemywinchester]

A few interesting sightings here in Kamloops. I guess it shouldn't be too surprising considering we are surrounded by bush. I live on the Thompson and I had a badger in my backyard a few years ago when the river was high. My neighbor had a photo on his phone. It ran across the street and laid in a gravel drive for a while. Never heard anymore about it. Another cool one is a lone Billy that shows up at Paul lake on the big bluff on the north side. Not sure where he came from but he was there for a year or two. Haven't heard if he is back this summer.

[VFX_man]

In Oakland, California . . . Mountain Lion killed by a car 200 meters from my old house. Knew something was up, since for the week prior I had a wild Turkey staying on my roof. Guess the lion pushed the flock down into the neighbourhood. Berkeley California had a Mountain Lion that the police had to shoot as well.

Also a Red Fox in San Francisco's Telegraph hill/Fishermans Wharf. Actually had deer cross the Golden Gate Bridge in traffic.

Generally speaking, I was never shocked. California is a desert most of the year and the watered landscaping attracts prey . . . where there is prey, predators follow!

People claimed we [man] were encroaching into "their" territory, but man was artificially supplying a resource through irrigation that allowed them to expand their range and population since there was more food. Never straight forward black/white reasons. California spend thousands of dollars trying to determine why deer were leaving the protected lands along the San Francisco Peninsula and crossing the highway [and getting killed]. When they announced the study, I told my wife, "Mountain Lions". 2 years later guess what the expensive study revealed? Mountain Lions were there, so the deer were fleeing. Gheez

Cheers, VFX

[Blair]

I saw a three point Blacktail in Glen Park at East 23rd and Windsor (near Fraser Street), Vancouver one day when I was getting ready to go to work. That really surprised me.

[scotty30-06]

Lol I wouldn't have gone to work....would have hung out with that all day hahah....stupid blacktail addiction lol

[IronNoggin]

In Oakland, California . . . Mountain Lion killed by a car 200 meters from my old house. ... Berkeley California had a Mountain Lion that the police had to shoot as well.

Interesting just where you'll find the big kitties - once you afford them Blanket Protection that is (as California chose to do).
Kind of like our Sea Lion problem out west here...

Cheers,
Nog

[tuner]

Wild turkeys in west pavilion FSR near Lilloett.

[VFX_man]

I saw a three point Blacktail in Glen Park at East 23rd and Windsor (near Fraser Street), Vancouver one day when I was getting ready to go to work. That really surprised me.


My hood!!! Guess I know where to set up my tree stand for archery season.:lol::D

[northof49]

1992..... couger in underground parkade of Empress Hotel downtown Victoria

[HarryToolips]

A 300 and something pound woman came out of our local lingerie store...

[northof49]

A 300 and something pound woman came out of our local lingerie store...

HT....you scoping out the lingerie traffic again?

[ACB]

I'v got a couple cougars living just down the street, mostly just come out at night. Oh ya, the dog chased a bear out of the yard this evening. Must know the seasons over.

[Hankenhunter]

Monster rack fallow deer. North side of Nicola Lake about 10 years ago. Never saw it again.

[scotty30-06]

My friends dad saw 4 wild boar from his jet boat near the far tip of Harrison lake...where in a tiny cove with gravel beach they saw the boat and gone....but that was about 12 years ago now.....cool to heat about the grouse by the delta watershed....i grew up in sunshine Hills and our nabours saw a cougar in the bog late 90's even had a picture of back leg and tail I remember seeing.

[Jelvis]

The tiny delicate sparrow, so small. so tender, so wild but is on the bottom of the pecking order.
Jelly -- His eye is on the sparrow --

[Wild one]

A 300 and something pound woman came out of our local lingerie store...

Now that is scary lol

[ajr5406]

2015: a cougar in the ravine behind our house in cloverdale. CO's closed the bridge over the ravine for a week because of the cat.

[blackhawk19]

vultures staying year round and elk in sooke

[northof49]

Monster rack fallow deer. North side of Nicola Lake about 10 years ago. Never saw it again.

Thats odd for sure.....must have been farm escapee

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Monster rack fallow deer. North side of Nicola Lake about 10 years ago. Never saw it again.

There's a farm not far downstream.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Never saw it myself.....but a friend's friend caught a badger in the Mission area of Kelowna. CO didn't believe him until he showed up on the property and witnessed it for himself.

SSS

[walks with deer]

Wildlife belongs where it shows..

I saw a nanny mountain goat 3 km South of down town merrit

[caddisguy]

Wildlife belongs where it shows..

I saw a nanny mountain goat 3 km South of down town merrit

Except schedule C species :D

And snakeheads

[albravo2]

A cow moose with two calves up near the Elaho River, about 40 minutes from Squamish.

[Blair]

My hood!!! Guess I know where to set up my tree stand for archery season.:lol::D
I think you might get old waiting for it to happen again! Better bring a lunch.

[Blair]

A cow moose with two calves up near the Elaho River, about 40 minutes from Squamish.
I have seen lots of moose tracks up there. Right on the road.

[ducktoller]

I have seen lots of moose tracks up there. Right on the road.

Yelp all up the west side of the sea to sky highway!

Laughed as I've been told it myth they are in whistler area a few times. Funny that I photographed a cow in soo river

[Ohwildwon]

Yelp all up the west side of the sea to sky highway!

Laughed as I've been told it myth they are in whistler area a few times. Funny that I photographed a cow in soo river

Soo River drainage is excellent habitat for moose!

The bog north of Function Juntion, in which they relocated a swamp donkey from a few years back, not so much...

[Livewire322]

I have seen lots of moose tracks up there. Right on the road.

I had one jump out of the trees 10 feet from my truck as I was driving down the Elaho mainline a few years ago.
I managed to get a few blurry photos of it before it got off the road.

[WWBC]

There was a Black Vulture in Kincolith BC a few years back. Normally they live in central and South America. The locals had been feeding it fresh salmon and ornithologists were flying up to take pictures. It must have took an Alaskan cruse from down south.

[MichelD]

I have seen lots of moose tracks up there. Right on the road.

I have found many moose droppings there.

[Codes44]

Was renovating a house near downtown Kelowna in late September and got to the job site (after hunting all morning of course) there was a giant old 5x5 muley buck laying in the backyard. Easily the biggest buck I've ever seen.

[wos]

On saterday evening I saw a young cow moose in the middle of the hwy at Skagit crossing #2 in manning park. Just a little unexpected.