notbob wrote:
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> Bears, deer, rabbits, geese, ducks, possums, elk, eagles, raccoons,
> mountain lions, hawks, badgers, buzzards, trout..... if it lives in the CO
> Rockies, I've seen it come through our backyard. Hell, even the trout
> are no further than 50 ft away. I gotta go some distance to see
> mountain goats, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, bison, yaks, musk
> ox, but can watch them from the road.

Folks have imported yaks and musk oxen to Colorado? I thought the
climate was too mild for musk oxen to thrive there. High up in the
hills I take it to mimic their artic origins.

So far I have only seen one yak and it was at a state fair. The sign
said "This Yak does not know she is not a cow". After a close look,
neither did I. I've seen some cows that hairy.

Here in the Chicago burbs we have less variety. Skunks, coyote,
beavers, muskrats, white tail deer, rabbits, squirrels, rats, mice,
geese, ducks, swans, cormorants, hawks, lots of smaller birds. I don't
know if the corvids we have are ravens or crows.

There a system of drainage ponds and forest preserves. The beavers
love the drainage ponds. They keep getting relocated to the forest
preserves and they swim the drainage system back to ponds and start
chewing down small trees. In a few years we've gone from none to plenty.