Hamwild said:Same here! We have a wooded lot behind our house so we've had a deer in the woods, a possum crawl into the yard and pass away (we also live near a busy road, so my Dad thinks he may have been hit by a car 
) and a raccoon that was helping itself to my suet (actually broke my old suet feeder 
).
Oh wow! No eagles here at least. We have turkeys, but none live near us from what I can tell.
Not the usuals. I've seen pictures of Cardinals and Chickadees sitting on snowy feeders. 
We have coyotes, bobcats, foxes, deer, raccoons, possums, rabbits... a lot of fun animals. The coyotes carry on all night long sometimes. I have a video of a coyote fight going down near my tent from when I camped on the outskirts of the woods during winter. Like raccoons and possums, coyotes have a habit of coming too close for comfort. Then again, we are in their territory. Raccoons are just complete bears, honestly. They have a reputation of killing cats as prey, and that's scary. We have had a family of raccoons around our yard this year, and my small dogs always seem to find them and scare them up trees. Of course there's a fence between them, and I'm doing a 10 foot follow behind the dogs.
People around here swear the Indiana mountain lions are still around, but they're sadly registered as extinct since 2011.
Wow, cardinals in snow! That's something I'm excited to see. I bought my black oil sunflower seeds at Rural King for 98 cents per pound just because I didn't know how things were going to go. If birds actually start showing up, I'll probably get the 40 pound bag, and maybe even more bird feeders! Suet feeding may begin next week for me if I start getting some action here.
