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Benedict Arnold

What is the most interesting bird or animal found in your state?

Would you be surprised to find one in your garden?

Posted - February 7, 2017
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  • In was once walking around the woods on an island here and found a giant milipede.  Really, really big.  I had no idea ones that size inhabited this area.  I always thought you had to go to Africa or South America to see them this big.
      February 7, 2017 2:11 PM MST
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  • The thing I like about asking questions is that you never know what will crop up in the answers. I wasn't expecting a  big millipede. Sounds as though it came from Shelob's cave. (You don't live in Middle Earth by any chance?)
      February 7, 2017 2:21 PM MST
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  • I have no idea. It's possible as far as I'm concerned.   I only seen things like this on Animal Planet and in books.
    What makes it weirder in a coincidental way was the Island we saw it on was Deer Island which is the Skull and Bones summer camp.   We didn't know it was at the time being teenagers.   ( queue spooky theremin music)
      February 7, 2017 2:24 PM MST
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  • Nothing spookier than a theremin. :) Amazing instrument, though. 
      February 7, 2017 2:25 PM MST
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  • I started to build one out of old radio parts once but never finished and it still sits in a box in my parents basement.
      February 7, 2017 2:27 PM MST
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  • That's what she said.
      February 7, 2017 4:42 PM MST
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  • (rimshot)
      February 7, 2017 4:46 PM MST
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  • THAT was funny!
    You got a laugh out of me with that one.
    You get a.point!
    Thanks !!
      February 7, 2017 4:48 PM MST
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  • 10026
    WOW!!!  Thank must have been a sight.  Not one I would like to see. Ewwww!
      February 8, 2017 1:34 AM MST
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  • Yeah it was kinda gross but they move so slow and are so sluggish it was no biggie.   Now if it was one of those quick as lightening centipedes that size?
    EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'm out!
      February 8, 2017 7:26 AM MST
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  • 22891
    a squirrel, where i live it can get kind of boring
      February 7, 2017 2:49 PM MST
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  • 154
    The Great Egret....resides in the Okefenokee Swamp.
    They usually live in tropical areas. They were once about to go extinct but had some of the first laws written to protect them.
      February 7, 2017 2:58 PM MST
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  • California Clapper Rail

      February 7, 2017 3:13 PM MST
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  • I was flabbergasted when i saw y'all got blue and red Garter Snakes.  They come in black with drab yellow here.
      February 7, 2017 3:21 PM MST
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  • See them in the flower gardens sometimes.
      February 7, 2017 3:24 PM MST
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  • I thought it was cool as hell.
      February 7, 2017 3:26 PM MST
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  • You know where they turn up the most? They seem to favor these when I plant them! Smart snakes!
      February 7, 2017 3:31 PM MST
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  • 10026
    It's true Glis!  Rooster and I both have seen them.  We may live int he same state; but oodles of miles from one another.  They are beautiful. They are fast too.
      February 8, 2017 1:37 AM MST
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  • He's definitely unusual. Mrs D and I have been living in our home since 1963 and last week, for the first time, I found a quail in the garden. We've had all sorts of unusual birds but that quail blew me away. Dunno where he came from.
      February 7, 2017 4:41 PM MST
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  • 82
    The Ruffed Grouse is the state bird here in Pennsylvania. I always see them around the house. Usually when they fly by they are not more than 8 or 10 feet above ground. They blend in with fallen leaves and always wait until I almost step on them before they take off and surprise the hell out of me. 
      February 7, 2017 3:48 PM MST
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  • I can see how they blend. That's great camouflage.
      February 7, 2017 4:42 PM MST
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  • I know exactly what you're talking about.   They spring to life out of nowhere.
      February 7, 2017 4:53 PM MST
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  • 82
    LOL! I've been caught off guard more than a few times. 
      February 7, 2017 6:17 PM MST
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  • 11002
    Minnesota is known as the gopher state. This is a pocket gopher and I wouldn't be surprised to see it.

      February 7, 2017 4:34 PM MST
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