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.

@DaftyLass I have been to Vancouver Island once, beautiful place and amazing wildlife! Lucky you 😁

Cumbria (just outside the Lake District national park). I live on an estuary, so lots of birds - curlews, sandpipers, cormorants, egrets, ospreys kingfishers, lots of different ducks and geese, goosander, oystercatchers, lapwings, buzzards, sparrowhawks, kestrels, loads of herons. Also in the garden bullfinches. We hear owls very loudly from the house but don't see them often. Bats. Lots of deer, also the occasional otter, weasel, stoat hare. Slow worms. Newts.

We live inside the M25 and have seen hedgehogs, badgers, foxes, all
sorts of rodents - mice, voles, shrews, rats, squirrels and bunnies / hares (although mainly when the cats bring them in)
We often see deer nearby. We have owls living in the small copse close by as hear them most nights and see buzzards. Not so many birds in our gardens as the birds are wary of the cats (sensibly so!)
Oh and have seen a couple of
Stag beetles

Rural Northumberland. Saw three barn owls driving home tonight

Squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, opossums, rabbits, the odd coyote, skunks, deer, bats, foxes, all sorts of birds - cardinals, woodpeckers, jays, sparrows, house finches, American goldfinches, mourning doves, black capped chickadees, juncos, crows, grackles, blue herons, wrens, blackbirds, American robins, red winged blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, different species of hawk, hummingbirds in summer, migrating geese in spring and autumn. Pigeons downtown, and seagulls.

There are a good few other animals in the area that I haven't seen including beavers and voles.

Forgot frogs and toads.

Coastal Florida: alligators, manatee, dolphin, sandhill cranes, caracara, bald eagles, wild turkeys, fish, fish and more fish of all kinds, lizards, geckos, skinks, frogs, songbirds of all types, sea turtles, leatherback turtles, gopher turtles, blue heron, ibis, seagulls, otters, egrets, pelicans and several types of whales.

Southern Maine, near Augusta: I saw a deer in my back garden last night - went out of my back door to collect the cat, and heard a great crashing and a big flash of flank and white tail right in front of me. I've seen deer on/off the road near where I live, but never so close! I've also seen (all on our property): squirrels, chipmunks, coyotes, opossums, hedgehogs, skunks (that's a scent treat you don't get in Europe!), a lot of very pretty tiny brightly coloured frogs, a variety of tortoises, and a pretty big variety of non venomous snakes.

We have foxes, badgers, bats, deer, toads, newts and water voles (very cute) in our garden regularly (we back onto meadow and woodland). For birds, we get everything from goldfinches to green and spotted woodpeckers, as well as the usual robins, tits, blackbirds, magpies etc. If it rains heavily, we get a heron in the meadow, thinking the standing water is a lake.

Jersey, teaming with it!

and we only have red squirrels in Jersey as there are no Greys

We have a pair of buzzards nesting in our garden, see deer frequently, hedgehogs, foxes. Neighbour has bats in his loft so see them flying about and hear owls at night but don’t often see them. There are red squirrels but unfortunately the greys are encroaching so not sure how long we’ll continue to see reds. Lots of frogs, toads and newts too as close to a bog. And also see dolphins occasionally if we drive 10 minutes to the coast so yes we are really lucky. (North East Scotland)

New Forest, which houses some of the rarest habitats and wildlife flora and fauna in Europe.

Loads of walks, cycle ways, riding, and driving from beaches, bogs, lowland heath, to woodland. I've even come face to face with wallaby out there and a patch of surviving venus fly trap let alone the native species.

We live rurally in West Cornwall and regularly see deer, badgers, foxes and rodents in our field and around the lanes. We’ve got frogs, toads and newts around the pond. Lots of birdlife including kites, sparrow hawks, buzzards and owls. Plenty of bats about too.

I live near a wooded area & see squirrels, hedgehogs, owls, robins, deer (early morning) and rats🤣

Forgot bats & a toad lives somewhere in my garden, comes out when I mow.

I live in the Lakes and see red squirrels sometimes but they're only in a few places even here. I was in London a couple of weeks ago and saw a seal in the Thames at Rotherhithe which was unexpected. I was on a ferry and the crew said they often see them.

No red squirrels, but plenty of grey. Foxes, rabbits. Daft pheasants get into our garden and then can’t get out unless we open the gate. Hedgehogs galore. Deer are often spotted, but not in the garden. Sometimes see them walking along our road in the early hours of the morning. We have a tiny pond so get frogs, newts and dragonflies. Next door has slow worms. Buzzards nesting nearby. Loads of bats. We live in a town, but there is loads about once you start paying attention. I’ve seen otters in the river that flows through the town centre. Life will find a way.

I spend most of my time in the boreal forest in Northern Alberta, Canada. We get the full works here - deer, elk, moose and the occasional caribou. Beavers, coyotes, wolves, lynx, bobcats and black bears.

I am also lucky enough to have a second home in the Rockies, so add in grizzlies, cougars, wild bison, porcupines etc.

A trip to Churchill to see polar bears is on my bucket list.

North Hampshire. On the school run - 7.30am, we regularly see

roe deer
hares
muntjac
foxes
kites
buzzards
sparrowhawks
kestrels

Out walking, we see
adders
jays
assorted song birds - black caps, bull finches, skylarks
nuthatches
woodpeckers
goldcrests
little owls
red legged partridge
pheasants
herons
moorhens
little egrets
this year, occasionally a barn owl.

as well as the normal vermin - magpies, squirrels etc.

Yes, in the wilds in Yorkshire. I get deer and badgers in my garden, barn owls hunt in the neighbouring fields, loads of birds on my bird feeders, had goldfinches and long tailed tits today. I love it.

We live on the edge of a small city. Regular visitors to our garden include badgers, foxes, roe deer, grey squirrels and so many different kinds of birds! We have buzzards in the sky over us, lesser spotted woodpeckers, nuthatches, tree creepers, long tailed tits, blue tits, great tits, chaffinches, bullfinches, goldfinches, greenfinches, nightingales, sparrows, goldcrests, sparrows, wrens, chiff chaffs, stone chats, robins, blackbirds, thrushes and lots more that I can't identify including at least two types of owl. And seagulls, of course. We also have newts and common brown lizards, plus frogs and the odd slow worm. Years ago the cats brought in a very small grass snake as well. We also get bats, at least two kinds, but don't ask me which!

We are lucky to have a very small patch of wildlife reserve behind us and a very steep field full of brambles to one side, but we are effectively on the edge of a very large housing estate. We are very lucky I think - but even in the centre of a city there is more wildlife than you think.

This is making me think perhaps i am just unlucky. I live in a historic market town with plenty of greenspace about, but it's mostly floodplain grassland and not much woodland. Is there a Rightmove search term for scrubby woodland nearby?!

Rural Scotland. It’s wildlife noise here, no cars except tractors. No people. Deer on our land every day. Hare. Rabbits. Foxes. Birds of prey. Owls. Several types. Baby tawny one sitting outside our window every night last spring. Poor bird of prey flew into our window last year too and stayed close until he healed. Pheasants and grouse are daily visitors too. Currently have the geese migrating who keep landing near our pond.
I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. Give me nature and animals over people.

Red squirrels are only mersea island, isle of wight and the Highlands of Scotland.

In the green part of zone 2 London where I live, we no longer have black birds that used to be common (wiped out by a mosquito-borne virus I have read). Butterflies have also become increasingly rare.

We do have foxes, squirrels, magpies, crows, the odd jay or woodpecker, nuthatches, owls, tits of various types, the odd lot of sparrows and starlings, swifts in the summer and loads of ring-necked parakeets. The small birds really do depend on the few lovely overgrown gardens round here. A lot of them have been paved or gravelled over; or are just too pruned, so the bird populations are dwindling.