What interesting creatures live in your garden?

[bobm]

Yup... I ( age 15 ) have seen a Bigfoot huge ( about 3 times mine ) footprint near AngelsCamp, Cal.. Also , when I was a Senior in High school , I was driving my car between Woodland and Davis, Cal. I saw a huge, cigar shaped with greenish / blueish lights all around it aircraft, performing some manuvers that I haven't seen before or since... like straight up to out of sight then straight down, stopping in an instant to about 50 ft. above the ground, then when it started to slowly move forward I drove shadowing it for about a mile that eventually reached up to 100 mph and then it stopped and hovered in place for a few minutes, then it shot instantly forward and out of sight. I stopped and asked myself is this real or what ?

 

[Nyboy]

When I was younger I believed in a creature living in the woods. I just have a hard time now. There is a certain type of person who will shoot anything that moves calling it hunting, I think by now someone would have shot and killed one. Even if they bury their dead, a body, bones should have been found by now.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

It flew before I could take a picture But this morning white waiting for the train I saw what could only be a peregrine falcon (could see the blackish "skullcap" on the head and the white belly) on one of the pylons in the river

 

[Nyboy]

I remember reading they where making a come back along the Hudson River. Very cool I only see Red tail harks.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Well, there are supposedly a s***t-ton of them in NYC (I've just heard, I've never seen one) if true, it would hardly be surprising for them to be moving towards the suburbs (the hunting is presumably just a good here, particularly if raptors have the ability to get bored with a diet of pretty much nothing but pigeon, starling, mouse, rat, and squirrel.) It's been a good time for raptor recovery here in the Hudson Valley. The Bald Eagles came back, the Vultures came back, the Kestrels came back (I think). Why not the falcons?

To be honest I was more surprised with where it was, as I didn't know peregrines would eat fish (maybe they don't, maybe it had caught a rodent or bird in on the shore, and the pylon was simply a convenient place to sit and eat it's breakfast.)

 

[Nyboy]

Yesterday there was a bobcat sighted around the corner from me.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Huh. didn't know we had those around here.

Actually I may have seen one a few years ago. The day before one of the big hurricanes (might have been Sandy, not sure) we were driving back along the highway (I'm bad a remembering the name of the parkways, but we were between Pocantico, Briarcliff and Pleasantville) There's a wooded bit by the highway there by a parking lot (for people who want to park and take their bikes along the bike trail) and I saw something grey dash across the road between the little glade on the other side and the entrance I was pretty sure was a bobcat. I didn't see the ears well, but it was a bit big to be a domestic cat, and there was little or no tail (so either a bobcat or someone's docked grey dog)

 

[so lucky]

Yup... I ( age 15 ) have seen a Bigfoot huge ( about 3 times mine ) footprint near AngelsCamp, Cal.. Also , when I was a Senior in High school , I was driving my car between Woodland and Davis, Cal. I saw a huge, cigar shaped with greenish / blueish lights all around it aircraft, performing some manuvers that I haven't seen before or since... like straight up to out of sight then straight down, stopping in an instant to about 50 ft. above the ground, then when it started to slowly move forward I drove shadowing it for about a mile that eventually reached up to 100 mph and then it stopped and hovered in place for a few minutes, then it shot instantly forward and out of sight. I stopped and asked myself is this real or what ?

Bob, there was a period of time when strange lights and UFO's were being seen on a nearly nightly basis near here, in Piedmont, MO, which is a little podunk town. Lots of people would gather to watch and document the sightings. One of the professors from SEMO University was an active participant. This was back in the early 70's I believe.
I don't think it's improbable that there is life out there, much more advanced that we are. Keeping tabs on us.

 

[journey11]

I've never seen one of these before, although I guess they are supposed to be somewhat common--Marbled Orbweaver. It was crawling up the back of my friend's chair. I could not believe it was real! I am not usually scared of creepy-crawlies, but this one freaked me out at first. After I quit hyperventilating, I caught it in a jar to show my niece tomorrow.

 

[thistlebloom]

Yikes! That is a mammoth spider! I'm not generally scared of spiders but that one gives me the willys just looking at my screen.
It's a pretty color though.