Animals

[+Brett&Citty]

Hey I was curious about what animals people have come across while caching in the South. Please post any pictures if you have them or tell us about the encounter you had. Make sure you leave the name of the cache you were doing.

Edited April 19, 2006 by Brett&Citty

[+jon & miki]

We went for a non-caching walk along Riverfront Park Sunday before last. We didn't bring a camera, but we saw the usual suspects, ospreys, Canadian geese, and turtles in the Broad River. We also saw a big (8 foot?) king snake sunning himself on a branch over the river and a muskrat that swam across the canal and started grazing about 20 feet from the busy trail.

 

The surprising sighting was a 5-foot alligator in the Broad River near the CCC cache. It wasn't a hallucination, several other walkers also saw it and reported it to the rangers. Neither the hikers or the rangers had seen an alligator in that part of the river before.

Edited April 19, 2006 by ikim & noj

[+jamrasc]

The surprising sighting was a 5-foot alligator in the Broad River near the CCC cache. It wasn't a hallucination, several other walkers also saw it and reported it to the rangers. Neither the hikers or the rangers had seen an alligator in that part of the river before.

 

Holy smokes, that's cool!! Never would have thought an alligator would be there, but then again they have been up this way in Lake Wylie.

 

We've seen the usual's....snakes and deer. The cute little green snakes are our favorite to see, we can catch them! We've seen king snakes and rat snakes.

 

The coolest though was while on vacation in Clearwater, Fl last June, we did the caches at Ft. Desoto State Park. While going to one of the caches we saw fins, yes, I said fins, sticking up out of the water. I thought for sure it was a pair of sharks feeding in the canal area. As we walked closer up popped 2 heads, it was dolphins feeding. That was the coolest ever.

 

At that same cache area we saw an awesome yellow rat snake.

[+emb021]

Only a few animals I've encountered.

 

Had to deal with dogs at 3 caches. Two behind fences, so they couldn't get to me, but was annoying to deal with their barking while I looked for the caches. The third (a very small dog) chased my car down the road as I was leaving a cache site. Was worried I'd hit the little pest.

 

At a recent cache I had a bird dive bomb me as I tried to look for the cache. Guess I was in his 'territory'.

[+Henki]

Spotted near a local cache Gators - not by me, thankfully!

 

What a Trip!

[+yatta99]

Always see interesting critters when I go out Heron, turkey vulture, black racer snakes, deer, wild boar, armadillo, land crabs, gopher tortus, etc. It all depends on where I'm caching. I feel lucky with so many different types of places to cache nearby. Although I could do without the fire ants and giant spiders

[+firefly_snatch]

Today we saw a male cardinal, some hawks, 3 gopher tortoises, and about 30 bats in this area later at night.

[+Airmapper]

This was posted on one of my cache pages recently....

[littletwin2000]

[ Dont forget SPIDERS lots and lots of Spiders those sneaky little citters who can spark fear in a 43 yr old 5'9 305 lb man

Edited May 16, 2006 by littletwin2000

[+wesleykey]

Critters? In the South?

 

Let's see, that would be:

 

1) Snakes

2) Lizards

3) chipmunks

4) Squirrels

5) Rabbits

6) Deer

7) Ducks

8) Pigeons

9) 57 other kinds of birds

10) Ticks

11) Spiders

12) a bunch more I can't recall now

[+Buder]

I wasn't caching when I saw this but it surprised me none the less. A grey fox ran across the road in front of my car as I was heading into work. I actually had to stop (was going slow due to school zone thankfully ) and look cause I said to myself that couldn't have been a fox but sure enough that bushy tail and sleep body are hard to mistake. he was fallowing the swath of mostly nature left alone land under the group of powerlines running through town.

 

Other then that its been the usual supsects. Ticks, spiders, deer, beaver, armadillos, snakes(poisenous and non), turtles and birds I couldn't even name all of them.