only thing missing is the squirrels. You not such a fan of those, woody?

Eh. Not really. They can be cute on occasion. I'll be positively giddy about any woodland critter though. Except skunks.

bunny?! Yes. bobcat?! Oh man.....

But I can imagine the fox and all his friends like anthropomorphized with little hats and scarves and then the adorable gets out of hand.

you're so silly. I like foxes and squirrels the most. I can imagine all the animals with personalities. I came up with a list for the animals on campus and what they're like.

Oh yeah? What animals do you have about campus? Lots of squirrels I bet.

I get really excited when I see animals/birds that you don't often see. I saw a ring neck pheasant a few weeks ago. He was super fancy. Then in the fall I saw two bobcats. Yesterday I saw an eagle sitting in a huge oak tree.

I'm really good at seeing raptors when I'm driving on the highway. They're usually sitting in a tree/on a post or a sign....and are pretty hard to spot. But for some reason my eye gets drawn to them.

animals and birds need a separate notation? Aren't birds animals??

I notice raptors pretty easily too.

let's see. Back when I made that list, I was in Austin. There were squirrels, cats, pigeons, black birds, and some other animals I don't remember there.

I like woodland creatures, but badgers?
Those guys are just plain MEAN!

We have turkey buzzards here...they're fun to watch. They'll stare a car down if there's a kill on the road they want.

buzzards are kinda nasty though!

No, they don't need separation.

Buzzards throw up on things that attack that, or other birds/creatures they perceive as threats. The more you know *tosses a glittery rainbow into the air*

Badgers are kinda...mean, but they're cute. I just think they're grumpy.
We had a lot of turkey vultures in my hometown, but here we've got tons of crows, which I love. A few ravens too down at one of the dams. Both birds I love.

there were a lot of crows in santa fe. They became the animal we had the most of by the time I left. Before it was rabbits, and before that prairie dogs.

Ooooh! We have little woodchucks that you see in the spring on the side of the highway, but nothing cool like prairie dogs. I see beavers a lot too when I go hiking. Which, always reminds me of the old school BBC Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe:



They're so scary! haha. The look like giant beaver tails with faces.
http://ilarge.listal.com/image/60411...rs.-beaver.jpg

prairie dogs aren't so cool. Nothing can ruin your lawn faster!

and yeah...wow those beaver's are creepy.

The crows in Alaska are HUGE!

isn't everything huge in alaska?

I remember seeing some mosquitoes that looked like birds...

I've heard that before.

They're super creepy. If I want to make my mom laugh, I do my impression of them and walk around like they do in the movie.

Are you sure they're crows? They might be ravens. Ravens are huge...and awesome.

UHhh. Mosquitoes love me. I'm a warm person so they zoom right for me. >.<

I saw a raven once. They really are huge. I was surprised by their impressive size.

I love them. How the ruff up their feathers and how they kinda stare you down. That and their call. I think the biggest ravens I've ever seen were the ones at the Tower of London.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...wer_ravens.jpg

that might be where I saw ravens. I remember one at...I don't know where it was, but it was in the UK. Not at the Tower of London.

Were you up north? I dunno how far down south they go, but I don't think into your area. I've seen em in Oregon, Washington, New England....

I only ever saw them in England.

The two down the road from me made a nest under the bride by the dam. I'll see them popping their heads out to investigate, then one will land ontop and make a lot of noise.

Mosquitoes are actually attracted by the carbon dioxide we breathe out...

Ravens are huge.

I think the grackles we have around here are like small ravens.
They look at you, and scold you....

haha. Grackles do do that. I always liked them.

I don't think we've got grackles over here.

You know what's a cool bird I wish we had? Magpies. I saw a bunch of them in Colorado.

We do have some neat ones seasonally. Baltimore Orioles...bluebirds, goldfinches are cute, um.... I dunno. Other birds.