We are seeing more and more of a limited variety of wildlife. Lots of deer. There used to be wild turkeys when we first moved here about 18 years ago. Now scarce, likely due to the coyotes that have come into the area. Ground nesting birds such as turkeys are at risk. Both black and turkey vultures. Red tail hawks. Great horned owls. Skunks, raccoons, ground hogs, opossum, red fox. A neighbor was just e-mailing around the other day, warning of an aggressive black bear on our road. (Though how he knew it was aggressive is beyond me. Any black bear I saw ambling down the street would be observed from inside the house.) Grey squirrel numbers rise with a good acorn crop, then drop when the mast returns to "normal." The foxes successfully raise a larger litter with the ample supply of squirrels, then drop again when the squirrel numbers fall. Voles especially have a boom-and-bust cycle. We let someone deer hunt the back of our property. There are other hunters elsewhere up and down the road. Since the does tend to drop twins it doesn't seem to do much to reduce their numbers. And we do enjoy locavore, free range venison. Nicer than the ranched version shipped in from New Zealand. Judy in New Jersey where a drizzle of rain is very much welcome