Do you live somewhere full of nature? Where?!

[Monvelo]

Do you live somewhere full of wildlife? If so, where do you live?! I don't see much where I am, wondering whether I need to get out more or whether there's anywhere the wildlife just, wanders about?! I'm meaning native species. Curlew. Yellowhammer. Otter. Fritillaries. Orchids. Red squirrels.

I saw a seal this morning when I was having a swim.

We get various birds and in autumn I see many cute birds stopping in the shore as they are migrating south. But I don't know what they are called.

I live in the suburbs really, but close enough to beach & downs to access them very easy.

Kent.

Well red squirrels aren't in May areas.

I have a small wood near my house lots and lots of assorted birds, grey squirrels, occasional deer.

There are lots of foxes and badgers 🦡

*many areas.

I live on the edge of a town in suburbia.

Yes foxes and hedgehogs aplenty

Lots of curlews (love the sound). Deer. And lots of owls lately (various species). I’m very lucky to live where I do.

Bats too but I'm not so great at spotting them.

I live on the water on Vancouver Island, we see seals, otters, rabbits, deer, cormorants, gulls, geese, ducks, crows, ravens, hummingbirds, chickadees, finches and all sorts

I live near the beach in Edinburgh and sometimes see dolphins in the sea 🐬

Once you are out of town you can see elk, bears, wolves and whales too

Yes, this morning I saw buzzards, squirrels, loads of birds, a peregrine falcon, and wild ponies, sheep, insects.
in the evening I often see foxes, badgers and hedgehogs.
we have owls in our garden.
edge of Dartmoor in Devon.

Bats, mice, voles, pheasant, foxes, badger, hedgehog, muntjac, deer, squirrels, lots of birds.

Rural Suffolk.

That's quite something.
Think I'll stick to the rabbits and deer and badgers though.
Is it scary seeing Bears and wolves?.

I’m in SW London, about 3 mins walk from the Thames. Our street has parakeets (of course), foxes, squirrels, owls, a woodpecker, the occasional heron, jackdaws, linnets, great tits, blue tits, robins, sparrows. Ten mins walk away is a huge park with fallow deer, rabbits, etc. My kids are so blasé about seeing deer, and I’m not sure I’d seen one IRL until I was about 25!

Where I am we had a variety of native garden birds, buzzards, squirrels in the garden (not so much now we have cats!), mice, slow worms, foxes roam the streets at night but more so if we have a harsh winter. I’m in Kent.

Deer, badgers, lots of different birds including birds of prey, foxes.
warwickshire

I live on the edge of a town but there is an SSSI at the foot of my garden with a 23 acre lake. We get foxes, badgers, muntjac and lots of waterfowl and dozens of toads and a few frogs.

Foxes, bats, squirrels, hedgehogs, owls, green woodpecker, stag beetles. (SE London)

I’m in a town but on a bit of a wildlife corridor.
In my garden I get:
Frogs
newts
toads
snakes
lizards
slow worms
hedgehogs
foxes
badgers
moles.
buzzards
owls
bats
woodpeckers
stag beetles.

In the park next door there are:
otters
egrets
herons
king fishers.
deer

Half a mile down the road there are:
jelly fish
cormorants
seals

I can be in ancient woodland in 10 minutes walk which is an SSSI, but even just behind my house which is the edge of our small town I see deer, buzzards, red kites, foxes, rabbits, lots of small birds and mammals. The river does have otters though its rare to see them

@Thevelvelletes not really, if it was trying to turn my tent into a human burrito, then yes, but usually they are just grazing for grass and berries at the side of the roads or in meadows

I frequently see seals too, when swimming or walking on the beach.

And birds, little waggy tailed black & white ones that flit about on the sand, loads of seagulls, crows even sparrows in the seaweed.

Jellyfish in the summer, Compass and sometimes Lion’s Mane.

lots of crabs too …

County Down coast.

Rural Somerset, up a single track road, no neighbours, surrounded by fields...

Red deer, roe deer, hares, rabbits, foxes, badgers a plenty (but no hedgehogs because of the high badger population), moles, voles, weasels, stoats, otters, too many squirrels, several species of bat, shrews, various mouse species.

Bird wise - all three species of woodpecker, plenty of corvids, (excepting choughs), all common garden birds, yellowhammers in the lane beside my house, barn owls, tawny owls, several raptor species, bullfinches, linnets, redpolls, loads of gull, sea and wading bird species nearby on the Bristol Channel, short eared owls and bitterns on the marshes, kingfishers, reed & sedge warblers, hear, but never see, night jars.

Insects aplenty, numerous moth and butterfly species, along with many, many beetles, solitary bees and pollinating insects.

Common frogs, common toads, common, great crested and palmate newts, common lizards, sloworms, adders, grass snakes.

And I believe I spotted a human once...

Derbyshire: buzzards, barn owls, jays, bats, badgers, deer, lots of different types of tit, robins, field mice, shrews, geese, ducks and lots of other birds.