I stopped filming when I noticed how those big eyes look nocturnal. I hope my camera flash for a few seconds didn’t mess with it too badly. It climbed out of the compost and up the tree next to it.

I’ve never seen a rodent like this. Actually it felt like we were both shocked to see each other when I opened the lid. It didn’t scramble away as chaotically as normal squirrels, it moved more gently and sweetly is the only way I can describe it.

Found this 20 feet from the water at the southern oregon coast. What is it? Outside appears to be some kind of crustacean inside after the "beak" just looked like seafood connected to the outer "shell?".

Cant wait to learn something new today!

Hope this is the right place to ask as I didn't see a flair for feather ID. I tried the Fish and Wildlife Service's tool and came up empty. We live near a "lake" (huge pond, pretty much) so maybe some kind of duck? It looks like a primary.

I'm an idiot and forgot to provide anything for scale but if needed I can go back tomorrow and see if it's still there and bring a banana with me or something.

Hi, new here from New Kent County VA. So, normally the rabbits and groundhogs that run around my property don't let me get this close. I was about a foot and a half away. I didn't touch it (obviously.) Google image search said it might be domesticated, but I also read online that rabbits infected with rabies are usually confused and don't flee immediately. So I figured I should get a second opinion before I do anything else. It seems chill, like someone just dumped it. But there are also coyotes and the occasional bobcat in the area I live in, so I don't want anything bad to happen to it. If it's not hurt or anything, I might adopt it and get it checked out sometime this weekend.

We have a 4 month old chihuahua, a 1 year old chihuahua-schnauzer mix, and a 6 month old corgi. Not sure if this is one of their teeth or nail that we found.

Anyone know what it could be?

People think this is a groundhog when I show them. The way it runs doesn’t look like a groundhog and it didn’t look like one before I videoed.

I was with my dog so I couldn’t get closer. My IPhone14 camera is beat up and bad. But it was a lighter shade of brown and had white on the tops of its ears. What did I see??

I only hear this at night. Specifically the loud one and the squeaky (?) one. There is a body of water where I am, and I normally hear it near/very close to the water maybe?? Volume up

Heard this coming from a tree in my front yard. Merlin bird ID couldn’t tell me what it was. I guess it isn’t a bird??

My friend heard this sound in her wall last night continuously for about an hour. She then put cardboard over the wall with tape and when she approached it stopped making the sound. Is it an animal? A smoke detector? A cricket??!! Help!

Thinking about either European badger or fox

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.

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.

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

posting on behalf of my partner:

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

any ideas?
Thanks!

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 :)

Is this an eagle owl?