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.

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