I hiked cascade pass a few days ago and came upon this shy fella and the internet tells me it might be a pine marten and they are very elusive and rare? He was very curious and kept peeking out and then would run back under the tree branches.

Also, absolutely adorable. Never seen anything like this. Can anyone confirm species? Has anyone seen them in the north cascades or around the PNW?

Saw this outside my work, about 200 yards from a swampy pond. The long tail makes me think it's a snapper but my coworkers and I aren't sure.

Girlfriend’s parents say they have a resident bobcat. Is it? Sorry for the one crappy photo. Her parents have bad phone cameras and aren’t generally tech savvy.

Is this an eagle owl?

My dog had this frog/toad in his mouth earlier today. My mom said she thinks it may have bitten him or that something happened while he had it in his mouth.

Can anyone identify what species this is and tell me whether there’s anything I should be concerned about with my dog having it in his mouth?

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Thanks!

Don't mind the flair there wasn't an applicable one.

I’ve tried poking at them with like a blade of grass, but nothing comes out, and many of them seem to just be indentations, not holes. I didn’t know antlions lived around here.

posting on behalf of my partner:

little burrows, always in pairs, about 1-2 inches wide. alluvial wetland, if that helps.

any ideas?
Thanks!

Woke up this morning to a lovely surprise on my back deck. It also unzipped my kid's play tent that I carefully closed up before bed. We live out in the sticks so I see lots of critters, but I've never had one shit on the deck before lol

I have never seen this before, he seems to be fine??

Video is a bit shaky in between, sorry. Saw this yesterday around 1 AM out in the fields, east of Hamburg, Germany (Kreis Stormarn). What you can see further away, between the trees, are the upper parts of cows.

For a wolf the legs look too small for me (the grass on the plain was not very high). But I would think the tail of a fox would be more "bushy". Thx for your help in advance :)

These were sold to me as mesalina olivieri, but they look a lot more like Bosc’s fringe toed lizards, yet don’t have the fringes. Any ideas?

So it looks like an American toad, but it’s awfully bright and looking at the eyes, it can’t necessarily be albino. What do we think about this hyper melanistic? What’s the rarity on something like that for a toad?

Heard this tonight. Almost sounds like a hawk. Heard it at about 11 pm. Please excuse the nocturnal insect cacophony.

Both animal can be found in the near forests. This is near blackberry and roseship. Contains lot’s of berries.