Critters in Weird Places

[westbranch]

My brother manages a custom harvesting crew and they see a fair amount of moose in wheat and corn fields of Central ND and NW MN each year. Not where most people expect to see moose but I think the people that live around there know they are around. This video was an aggressive young bull that was hanging around for several days.

 

[Mtrose]

Several years ago, a small herd of antelope showed up at the horse boarding facility I kept my horse and donkey at, in Clinton, MT (about twenty miles east of Missoula). They came and went for a few weeks, then one day they up and left and never came back.

 

[Wild Bill]

The possum army advances north…

 

[trackerbacker]

The possum army advances north…
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I'd say over the past 10-15 years, I've seen 3 or 4 roadkilled in Iowa. The first time I know for sure in far NEIA, as I pulled over to look at it.

The rest were just "huh, looks like roadkill armadillo (proceeds to hit scan on the radio)" somewhere north or south +/- 50 miles off i80

Eta- handful of black bear in NEIA, heard rumors of naturally establishing themselves here.

 

[jarmour1]

We had a moose wander through North Platte Ne a couple years ago.

 

[Sandbrew]

I'm assuming this counts since it was in a neighbors house miles away from typical mountain goat habitat. Weird......

 

[sccritterkiller]

I picked up a antelope deadhead around 9k in the BigHorns, that joker was lost.

We had some flamingos around here a few weeks ago after a hurricane came up from the gulf.

 

[mdcrossbow]

I co n fess I've been startled one or twice by critters, know I've startled them. Family of Flying squirrels nesting in the tree stand seat.

 

[2rocky]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1353211065328448

 

[Wyhunter]

I found this guy out turkey hunting in the flats of eastern Wyoming. Talked to game and fish, they thought he came over from Nebraska. Number 1 Dream animal of mine to hunt. Originally saw him at 20 yards, they are bigger than I imagined up close.

 

[Stocker]

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I found this guy out turkey hunting in the flats of eastern Wyoming. Talked to game and fish, they thought he came over from Nebraska. Number 1 Dream animal of mine to hunt. Originally saw him at 20 yards, they are bigger than I imagined up close.

Nebraska is basically the hotbed for bighorns and mountain goats.

 

[Wyhunter]

Nebraska is basically the hotbed for bighorns and mountain goats.

Its all that crazy mountainous terrain

 

[Wyhunter]

I saw a giant bull moose in velvet about 25 miles north of Kimball NE this year, but didnt pull over for a picture

 

[the nikster]

In about 83 or 84 I saw the worlds tallest badger while moving pipe in southeast Idaho, Specifically Grace.
I drew a picture of it and sent it to PBS, Marty Stouffer, Wild America.
The next summer I got a response. I had drawn an accurate depiction of a wolverine. While not common, SE Idaho is within the known range of the wolverine.

 

[2rocky]

Warning of wolf hybrid wandering on edge of North Bay city

Several agencies are searching for a wolf hybrid spotted on the outskirts of Sebastopol,...

www.sfchronicle.com

 

[Unlucky]

I seen a 4pt muley. 3 and half yr old in beaverhead county on public land in an otc in unit. He prob wont live long wasnt rutting yet.

 

[cgasner1]

Montana this evening

 

[44hunter45]

Back in the early 1980's I saw 5 pronghorn east of King City California. The first pronghorn I had ever seen. I was in my 1983 Toy 4x4 so couldn't have been before that date. I knew they had been in the San Joaquin valley while it was still un-irrigated desert, but that was 100 years ago.

 

[brockel]

20 years ago I came around a cedar tree to a wolverine in eastern Montana. Long before I had a camera.

 

[brockel]

Saw this guy in Carter county last week. Well outside the species summer range imo. Haven’t checked onyx species distribution maps however.

That’s not a guy. That’s a girl. Met her before down there