Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What other animals do you see from your stand ???

Some years ago I was fortunate to hunt private land that not only had a great deer population but also tremendous numbers of other animals. On a typical sit, I was likely to see 'coons, opossums, bobcats, coyotes, skunks, otters, squirrels, armadillos, woodcock, mallards, wood ducks, snow geese, hawks, owls and, in the last 3 or 4 years that I hunted there, feral hogs.

Currently I'm hunting an 800 acre farm that is about half woods/half fields. I rarely see anything other than deer and not many of those. It is not unusual to not see anything other than a few squirrels two or three hunts in a row. Nothing else. I find it very strange.

What, besides deer, do you often see from your deer stand?

Thanks, RS

Other animals are mostly armadillos and hogs. Don't shoot the dillas on stand but no hog gets a pass.

Squirrels
Birds to include Owls and bald eagles
Saw a badger once
Coyotes
Chipmunks
Porkies

Saw a fisher once on a bear stand. Once.

Black bears out the arse!
Squirrels/chipmonks
Coyote
Red headed woodpeckers
Various species of Hawks
And Occasionally a coon or a Bobcat.....Hb

This season I seemed to be a magnet for squirrels... like WW3 happening in the oaks right behind me. Got to watch a bobcat stalk for quite a while. Thought hard about getting that coat but the rifle I was carrying would have ruined it.

Squirrels
Dove
Quail coveys marching thru
Coons
Swamp rabbits
Possum, armadillos
Bob cats on occasion
Hogs on occasion
Coyotes on occasion
Hawks will strafe corn piles.....always entertains
Owls as well

At least once a year 15-25 turkeys will swarm thru

Fox
groundhog
squirrels
coyote
hawks Owls
songbirds
vultures
mink

Deer
Hogs
Turkey
Occasional livestock
Various other birds
Sometimes a bobcat or a coyote but rare for me to see them in daylight.
Also fox and ringtails

Some years I will see exotics. Axis, fallow, sika, some sorts of sheep/goats

I had a peacock on camera once. It ran with the turkeys

Here in the Trans-Bluegrass of Kentucky, we regularly see:

Gray Squirrel
Fox Squirrel
Chipmunk
Eastern Wild Turkey
Coyote
Raccoon
Opossum

Barred Owl
Great Horned Owl
Screech Owl
Red Headed Woodpecker
Red Tail Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Black-headed Vulture


We have seen signs/trailcam pics/ etc. of:
Bobcat
Elk
Black Bear
Red Fox
Gray Fox

Mainly western VA here.
Occasional bobcat
Squirrels
Grouse
Gray and red fox
Turkey
Used to see a quite a few bear but the mange has been hard on them the last few years

Don’t hunt from a stand but

Black bear
Moose
Lynx
Fisher
Marten
Partridge
Porcupine
Coyote
Red squirrels

Last few years a lot of owls

Beaver and otter are neat creatures to observe while hunting.

I regularly see squirrels Gray and Fox.
Turkeys most days
Coyotes, shot the one I saw this year
Bobcats, shot one opening day last year.
Gray Foxes occasionally
Doves
Crows.

Squirrels, lots of squirrels!

Deer
hogs
turkey
quail
black buck antelope
Axis
coyotes
gray fox
porcupines
coons
ring tailed cat
skunks
armadillos
rattle snakes
copperheads

This year squirrels, turkeys, bobcat, hawks, songbirds, and a couple of gators on the way to a couple of stands. In the past many of the above plus coons, otters, coyotes, foxes, fisher, weasels, skunks, mink, ducks and geese…

Coyotes
Black Vultures
Turkey Vultures
Assorted Hawks
Fox Squirrels
Shorthorn Cattle

Depending on where I sit:

Ducks
Geese
Eagles
Various hawks
Vultures- Turkey and Black
Cormorants
Mergansers
Herons
Squirrels- Fox and Gray
Chipmunks
Raccoons
Possums
Foxes
Woodpecker- five varieties
Assorted “Do-it” birds like Chickadees, Titmouses, Wrens, etc
Turkeys
Deermice
Barred Owls- usually just heard
Box turtles in warm weather

No one mentioned yet...occasional house cat!

I’ve seen bears, bobcat, coyote, raccoon, opossum, fox, squirrel, rabbit, ermine, eagles, turkeys, hawks, geese, cranes, and a ton of little brown birds and rodents. Almost as much fun as watching the deer.

Old70

A few years back while bow hunting on stand I watched a 5 minute encounter between a small buck and a bobcat. They basically checked each other out curiously and carefully, with the buck ultimately running the bobcat off. They were literally nose to nose at one point.

1. Fox

2. Bear

3. Coyote

4. Moose

5. Fisher

I saw a ton of squirrels and chipmunks, a couple raccoons, and a possum from the stand this year, as well as a plethora of different small birds.

The land I was hunting previously I saw a lot of coyotes, occasionally a fox, the odd muskrat or weasel, and a few turkeys. I was hunting from an open top box blind out there and had a dumbass crane land in it with me sitting there one time a few seasons ago. It knocked my gun and thermos over getting out of there immediately after touching down.

Deer
Coyotes
Feral pigs
Aoudads
Squirrels
Raccoons

Most days, I only see squirrels, chipmunks and woodpeckers. I have seen a wide variety of other animals (bears, coyote, bobcat, grouse, possum, fox, porcupine, etc.) but not nearly as often.

This year I saw lots of squirrels, some chipmunks, a rabbit & very few song birds.
I usually see lots of song birds, especially the friendly black capped chickadees, but not this year.
And no deer this year, just like last year.

Squirrel
Ground hogs
Coons and possums
Bear
Beaver
Bobcats
Yotes and foxes

Oh. And turkeys.

Saw a pair of young bobcats chasing a cottontail yesterday afternoon.

Me & this guy were hunting the same field earlier this fall. I was looking for deer & he was probably hoping for something a bit smaller. His camouflage (and probably his hunting success) is superior to mine. So far this season, I was about to shoot a deer with a bow when a coyote appeared & spooked it. Had an orange tomcat wander past my stand. I always like it when a turkey comes by. Saw a really big redheaded woodpecker the last time I was out. I always see racoons, rabbits & squirrels.

Depending on hunt location the following may be encountered while archery hunting Whitetail deer.
Phesants
Wide variety of waterfowl, ducks & geese
Cottontails
Squirrels
Turkey
Rarely a coyote or fox
bluejays
Chickadees
Robins
Eagles
Hawks
Owls
Mink
Muskrat
Beaver
Porcupine
Prairie Chicken
Grouse
Antelope
Mule deer

Raccoon's
Sandhill Crane’s
Armadillo
Squirrel
Coyote’s
Pig’s
Black Bellied Ducks (at my feeder)


Used to see:
Coati’s
Bobcat’s
Mountain Lion’s
Black Squirrel’s
Green Jay’s

I’m in Sonora Texas and see some different animals almost every time I go out.

Whitetail deer
Axis deer
Fallow deer
Fox
Rio Grande Turkey
Raccoon
Ringtail Cat
Squirrels
Hogs

Possible but haven’t seen at my stand:
Red stag
Sika
Oryx
Aoudad

Kara Kara-Mexican Eagle
Golden Eagle
Buzzards


That’s all I can think of for now.

I know it’s not Whitetail related, but while hunting in Namibia I’ve seen; Eland, Kudu, Gemsbok, Baboons, Springbok, Steenbok, Waterbuck, Spotted Hyenas, female Leopard, Black Wildebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Red Hartebeest, Lion and tons of other critters.

this was a 1st for me this year a lynx 40 feet away looking up at me by the Canadian border .

34 posts and not a single mention of a raven, one of my favorite northern birds. I do wonder how far south they are seen as I don't see them here in central Wisconsin. Hunting up north I do see a lot of red (pine) squirrels in NE WI., but have seen otter, mink, black bear, bobcat, coyote, ermine, snowshoe hare, porcupine, partridge, chickadee, blue jay, bald eagle, crow and raven. Even an occasional deer.
When I hunted NW WI. add to that a wolf, fisher and two great gray owls and lots more big deer.

" STAND " ?

All of the above plus an Emu.

Couple of oddities, this season.

Rooster pheasant - NWO supposedly has no pheasants;





In 18 seasons here, this is only the 2nd Fisher, I've seen;

Since antler restrictions went into place, and second growth got thick, I've had to go from jump-shooting bull moose to stand hunting, for ID reasons - it is usually just a perch on a log, or sometimes a tree stand.

Besides moose I have seen lynx, wolves, grouse, various raptors and other birds, marten, swans that came winging by 15 feet out from my tree stand or on small lakes, loons (all species found here), grebes and other waterfowl, beavers, muskrat, voles and shrews, squirrels, brown bear.

Throw in "stands" for caribou spotting, add black bear, wolverine, marmots, porcupine, sheep, goats, ptarmigan, and a shapely, pretty girl in short-shorts and halter top training for a race. I think she was pretty, anyway. She only stopped for 30 seconds or so - not sure if I looked at her face.....

Once I saw a USFW game warden.....

Also, per above, numerous black bears, couple of moose, raptors/owls & porkies, while on stand.

Got lynx, coyotes & bigfoot, on trail cams

Regularly - coyotes, fox squirrels, hawks of all sorts, turkeys, annoying birds like blue jays, wood peckers, and little flitty birds like nuthatches.

Occasionally - bobcats, crows, owls, quail, pheasants, red foxes, and weasels.

The oddest thing was a sheep with an ear tag, probably somebody's escaped FFA project.

IN the big woods of NW WIs. I will se a squirrel once in a while. This fall I saw a weasel though. I rarely see a deer up north.. Down in SE WIs. I see more deer and nothing else except Sand Hill Cranes flying over and I like to see them...

Sleeping on the ground under a tarp one night while moose hunting, I awakened as something small, close by, came running... bounced off my face... and kept going.

No idea what it was,, but that will wake you right up!

City folk just don't get it.