We're quite a ways from the edge of town, but we've got some foxes living in our back yard or a neighbor's yard, we see one of them regularly and we've heard a vixen call. (It sounds like a wounded cat.) We've seen coyotes and a few deer, too, plus the usual assortment of possums, raccoons and skunks. (I haven't actually seen a skunk, but I've sure smelled them!)
A few years ago there was a river otter on our back porch, looking totally lost, since the nearest creek is over a mile away. It was after some really heavy rains, my guess is he got flushed downstream by rushing waters and was trying to find a route home.
And then there was the elk that we think probably ran through our back yard because of where they found him. He had been spotted a couple of blocks away in the parking lot at a nearby middle school. He broke his leg jumping a fence that can be reached from our back yard and animal control had to put him down.
I see turkeys and some kind of grouse or pheasant near the middle school all the time. Ducks and geese stay in Lincoln year-round these days, a neighbor sees them in her lawn on her security camera, usually in the early morning.
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