Birds- junco, cardinals, orioles, finches, grosbeaks, robins, Wilson’s snipes, grackles, turkey vultures, starlings, hummingbirds, blue jays, Canada geese, blue heron, woodpeckers, red wing blackbirds, nuthatch, chickadees, killdeers Mammals - raccoons, possums, black bear, deer, fishers, stoats, squirrels, chipmunks, farm animals, rats, porcupines, skunks Reptiles - garter snakes, milk snakes, occasionally blue tailed skinks Amphibians - spring peepers, wood frogs, painted turtles, snapping turtles, toads, bull frogs. There’s more I’m sure, but those are what springs to mind without putting effort into it

I live on the outskirts of an Australian city, a couple of hundred metres away from farmland and national park. Opposite me we overlook a large public open space/park.

We have a resident family of magpies. There’s a few cockatoos in the large gum tree next door. There are some kookaburras living in the park who sometimes visit the trees out the front of our place. The odd eagle circling high above. Too many mynas these days. Lots of rosellas and grass parrots. A smattering of finches.

There are tons of kangaroos around. They come into the park to feed at night. During the day they retreat into the national park and we see them when out walking the dog. I’ve run across echidnas and red belly black snakes in the national park, but not technically seen from my window, although we were maybe 15 minutes walk from my front door.

We get the occasional blue tongue lizard visiting our backyard. I found a eastern brown snake skin in the yard once too, but didn’t see its owner. One of my neighbours reported one in his backyard last spring, and my kids have spotted one in the park on the way home from school once, so we know they’re around. There are rabbits around here somewhere and we regularly see them on the nature strip out front at night.

We have the usual assortment of crawlies around. Ants. Spiders. Geckos. Midges. Flies.

There are a couple of horse ajistment places nearby and a pony club. It’s not uncommon to see horses being exercised through the park. Two of our neighbours own horses and ride them home occasionally.

Lots of different birds - mockingbirds, ibis, woodpeckers, blue jays, crows, hawks, vultures. Night heron.

Sometimes bats, always squirrels, sometimes a possum or raccoon.

Little lizards everywhere, sometimes a snake.

Wasps, bees, butterflies, dragonflies.

At work - beautiful great blue herons, great white herons, tricolor herons, cormorants, ducks, and the occasional alligator all come to the mitigation pond at the office park. ETA also at some time in the year there are these big storks that look prehistoric.

Pacific banana slugs, phantom crane flies, orange stripe bumble bees, mule deer, white tailed deer, black bears, crows, raven, bald eagle, turkey vultures, chipmunk, gray squirrels, bobcat, coho salmon in the river behind my property… a lot of very cool things to see, and we also have cougars but I’ve never personally seen one in the wild

I live in a very urban area in France, in the Paris urban area. My apartment building has a small “gardeny” courtyard, with several trees and a bit of lawn, which my one and only window overlooks. I can see several balconies, but do not have one myself. Here’s a (probably non-exhaustive) list of what I can see from up here:

• two magpies whose nest is visible from my window, right at the top of a tall lime tree. They do their round from balcony to balcony every morning, looking for food or water I guess. They often get very noisy in the morning when…
• a crow tries to get close to their nest. It’s “not from around here”, we don’t get generally have crows in the building’s courtyard, but it’s been coming regularly since spotting the nest. (I’ve convinced myself that it’s always the same crow, but I don’t really know.)
• a blackbird who sings every day from the top of the building facing mine. I’ve seen blackbird nests in the courtyard in the past, but not this year.
• lots of swifts high up in the air — they don’t get close to my home unfortunately because it’s too modern for them to nest, I need to walk a few blocks to see them course each other over my head. I adore swifts and wish I could get a closer look at them.
• pigeons — of course ! Rock pigeons and wood pigeons… mostly wood pigeons. A pair of wood pigeons tried to build their nest on top of a set of shelves on a neighbouring family’s balcony, but the parents made them stop right away by removing the first few twigs and blocking the furniture with boxes. It’s a pity, I would have had a very good view on the nest.
• great tits. Like the magpies, they do their shopping from balcony to balcony from time to time… but not at the same time as the magpies.
• a redstart that I’ve only seen once from my window, singing on the opposite building, at the blackbird’s favorite spot. It’s normally in the next city block, where it can’t be heard from my house. (Unless it was a different redstart?)

A few birds that I can hear from my room, and see when going outside, but have never spotted from my window:

• robin
• garden warbler
• blue tit

Several years ago, there was a couple of jays that came every day in the garden, and toured the balconies like the magpies currently do, but not anymore. I wish they’d come back…

I’m too high up to have many insects visible from my window. If I see an insect from my house, it’s usually because it came in my house, but I won’t be listing those. I see the usual flies, of course, and moths — I’m afraid I couldn’t name them. A line of ants climbing the building’s wall; they actually “invaded” my apartment several times, but not this year. In the past, I’ve had mason bees nest in a hole at the side of my window, which was AWESOME, but it hasn’t happened in a few years. I’ve seen a few flying around this year too, they just haven’t chosen to grace my humble abode with their offspring.

Sometimes a cross orbweaver on the railing (not right now). Most spiders, I encounter inside the building.

Pets: a kitten on the nearest balcony, a large dog on the balcony below, which rarely barks, thankfully. A cat in the neighbouring courtyard, which is separated from mine by a great wall. I don’t know in which apartment the cat resides.

I probably forgot some animals, but I did my best, and let’s be honest, nobody’s reading all that.

I’m very fond of the magpies this spring, they’ve been giving quite a show, but I haven’t spotted any younglings unfortunately. :-(

Edit: I forgot the pipistrelles!

Hummingbirds year round, parrots in the “spring”, sea gulls, tits, egrets, rabbits, and the occasional squirrel. Also tons of neighborhood cats and dogs.

Birds: rufous horneros, rufous thrushes, kiskadees. Including a kiskadee fight, it was fucking hilarious - picture two males encircling each other, as if they were in a ring, surrounded by females. (Picture a 40yo surrounded by two cats, watching them fight through the window. It was like this.) Once in a blue moon I see a hummingbird, they used to visit me more often before the hail killed my fuchsia.

Cool arthropods: a silver argiope once, I “adopted” her but she had children and passed away, RIP Kumoko. My basil is always gathering some native bees. I guess for most people gaucho spiders count?

Mammals: only the usual. Cat, dog, cat, human, cat… …my neighbourhood has a lot of cats, including uninvited guests.

I can’t recall the last time I saw a toad. When I was a kid I had fun splashing them with water - it’s harmless to the critter, but if you startle them they jump.

For reference, this is in urban South America, Cfb climate.

Used to see chipmunks. The little fuckers knew the window screens trapped my kitties from getting them and would taunt them. Turkey once at the old spot. Skunks a few times at the old spot. Dogs and cats.

Now just birds and dogs being walked by their persons. How about you?

Can see Foxes from my parents home.

I see a lot of birds. I’m on a hill and I look down on a valley with many thermals. There are storks, herons, buzzards, red kites, black kites, crows, rooks, jackdaws and magpies. I hear a green woodpecker sometimes but I never see it. There’s also a blackcap, loads of sparrows, blackbirds, a tree creeper, blue tits, great tits and black redstarts. And the neighbour’s two ridgebacks and their cat.

Deer, black bears, raccoons, opposums, squirrels, chipmunks, king snakes, blue-tailed skinks, and lots of different types of birds. I haven’t seen, but have heard, coyotes and owls.

Rural france :

So many different birds, I used to know their names but did not keep up with the knowledge ;

Two cats, because they live here, but also probably the rest of the cat neighbourhood at night ;

Depending on the time of day : hedgehogs, snakes, deers and fawns, bees, wasps, mosquitoes (😡), snails, slugs, caterpillars, lots of beautiful butterflies ;

Can’t see them but they’re very close : frogs and mice ;

On the other hand, I see spiders everywhere, don’t even need to look outside…

Very rarely the neighbours’ dog(s), we do hear them throughout the day lol ;

Seldom a boar or hog and their offsprings, but they usually keep to the forest.

Red-eared slider turtles, smooth shell turtles, stupid huge snapping turtle, four species of duck, coots (aka chicken ducks), many species of heron, hawks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, lots of butterflies, and the occasional bobcat.

I live in Dallas, but got lucky and found a house with a tiny bit of nature in the concrete sprawl.

opposum, racoon, fox, squirrel, chipmunk, deer, bats, frogs, toads, copperhead, rattlesnake,etc turtles, lizards, newts, woodpeckers, bluejays, finches, chickadee, crows, hummingbirds, hawks, eagles, owls, buzzards, hornets, carpenter bees, ants, paper wasps, termites, cicadas, black widow, orb weaver spider, and countless other birds and bugs. Most interesting bug might be the bumblebee moth.

We live next to a strip of woods in South Limburg with a brook and close to a nature reserve. We see Squirrels, Marten, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Blackbird, Great Tit, Buzzard, Jay, Song Thrush, Nuthatch, Crow, Dove, Goose when migrating, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Magpie.