Your best animal sightings?

[whimbie]

Me and my family went boating for a weekend at a lake about an hour or so from our house. We were anchored like 20 feet from the shore and a grizzly bear and it's 2 babies come out of the trees. They didn't get very close, but they still stayed and chilled with us for a good half an hour or so. I wish I'd had my phone at the time. I'd have taken pictures.

[a small animal]

I saw a fennec fox on vacation once and was so shook

[cheerry.cola]

Just a small question, what are your best animal sightings? Maybe you went on a vacation and saw an exotic animal in the wild, or maybe a cool animal wandered into your backyard.

Share them here!

I went to Mammoth Mountains and saw a black bear next to our car, we also saw a coyote in the road (it was alive) and the coyote was pretty big.

[cswolf.]

I haven't seen many exotic animals but I've seen garter snakes, ground hogs, and deers. Any animal sighting to me is the best as I absolutely adore all animals <3

[GreyLynxSplash]

I went camping this one time and saw two fennec foxes

[Mycorrhizae]

I've seen all kinds of things! Bears, elk, moose, eagles, osprey... it's not super exotic, but I love watching grebes! They're so fun to watch dive, especially in groups. Cormorants too, but there's something about grebes that I love. And Turkey Vultures! I see them all the time in the summer. They're one of my favorite animals.

[s u n f l o w e r.]

Once I opened my front door and there was a mama and baby moose face to face with me 😭😂😂

Also had a rattlesnake slither over my feet


my life kinda sorta flashed before my eyes

[Aj_cookie04]

I have spotted both a rattlesnake (I thought it was a stick at first) and three javelinas in one day, luckily they didn’t show aggression.

[Aj_cookie04]

And once a scorpion was resting on my foot and I didn’t get stung somehow 😂

[Mycorrhizae]

Fortunately, rattlesnakes and scorpions want to leave us alone! They don't want to waste their venom on humans because we're too big to eat. Unfortunately, we sometimes catch those animals by surprise and they panic and sting/bite us. Still scary to come across them though.

I had a rattlesnake in the road once and there was no room to go around so all the cars were backed up. I had a hockey stick though so I was able to poke it and it slithered off. That was the only rattlesnake I've seen. I've been hiking and other people warned me about rattlesnakes on the trail, but they were always bull snakes.