Reader Ron Travisano sent us this photo of some deer activity on Bloomfield Avenue yesterday afternoon in Glen Ridge.
Four deer, bucks, were seen on Bloomfield Ave and Freeman Parkway at 1 pm crossing into the Glen Ridge “Glen” on Tuesday. I walked in there and took this picture of two of them, (one on the left edge). The other two were lying down.
Amy Vecchione sent in this photo taken recently of perhaps three of the same bucks in her back yard on Hillside Ave, near the Glen. “We see the four bucks walking around quite often.”
Baristanet’s Pets Editor, Martta Kelly has had some wildlife spottings of her own, in West Orange. She has had a young deer in her front yard, and there’s been a wild turkey at her neighbor’s.
I’m still noticing lots of nocturnal skunk “activity” down in my neck of the jungle (dog still smells, btw). Anyone else picking up the scent or seeing other evidence of Baristaville wildlife this week?
Deer? in the area? Really?
Upon leaving my office last night, there was a deer strolling around the parking lot of Canfield Office Park in Cedar Grove. Earlier that day a patient reported being chased by wild turkeys while on her morning run….I’m tellin’ ya…it’s a jungle out there…….
There was a creature spotted by my office last winter that we can’t ID. The picture someone got looks like a wild pig with no front legs. Others think dog in snow – but that doesn’t explain the snout. Now that the grass is tall in the area he was spotted I haven’t been able to spot him but I do see the grass moving.
So does anyone know if there are wild pigs, hogs, whatever in NJ?
@hrhppg, can you scan your colleague’s “wild pig” photo and send it to us for crowd sourcing? After all, we have a lot of animal experts on the site!
I’ll see if I can.
Saw an adorable little bunny in my backyard last night.
Erika, just sent you some sightings in my yard and nabe. We keep seeing the same wild turkey (a beautiful black & white one) and the other day we saw her with chicks! The deer are getting bolder, appearing in broad daylight as opposed to their usual dawn and dusk routine. Rabbits galore, ditto for chipmunks. The only ones I really hate are the squirrels who keep taking bites out of my tomatoes.
I love the wildlife that frequent my property even though they nibble on my plants.
My last wildlife sighting was a marsupial on Baristanet.
LOL…Nellie!
No deer but I did see a Chupacabra the other night. I think he took care of the deer.
No accompanying closeups of the ticks found on deer whose bite supposedly leads to lyme disease?
What I find amazing is that the 140-lb mountain lion that was spotted in Greenwich CT and later killed by a car on the Merritt Parkway in Milford has been traced by DNA all the way back to Minnesota or South Dakota. Maybe it wasn’t the first generation of mountain lions in the area. There were reports up an down the Berkshires in west-central Massachusetts last year. You don’t think they drive, do you?
I’m about as wild as Bugs Bunny.
I dunno, ‘roo, Bugs was a wild and crazy guy sometimes — dressing in drag, smooching with Elmer, hangin’ out with Daffy.
But if Holly is really seeing Chupacabras, I think I’ll have what she’s having.
The Glen Ridge Glen is not that big so where did these deer come from originally, Eagle Rock? Four Bucks wandering so far away… must be looking for four does.
I saw a bunny hopping about the other morning on Lloyd Road, but being so close to Eagle Rock Reservation it’s not unusual to see a lot of wild life up on the hill: deer, raccoons, possums, rabbits, chipmunks, wild turkeys. I think I even saw a fox one morning on South Mountain Ave. Early one morning a few years ago, on the lawn of the South Mountain Apartments complex, I saw a big buck with antlers so big he was as tall as I was, which was a little scary. If he’d decided to charge me it would have hurt. Normally they prance or walk away if they see you but he was standing his ground. Love seeing all these critiers.
Make that critters.
Most of the wildlife follow the traintracks. Maybe they’re responsible for all the graffiti.
Love the word critters…Made me wonder if any of the wildlife try to swim in Montclair’s CEE-MENT ponds.
I see deer on Park St occasionally within the past year or so, often right by the road munching on hedges. White wild turkey could be a crossbreed with a farm turkey, since they are pure white.
Nellie, if the critters swim in the cee-ment ponds do you suppose they have inflatable pool toys shaped like humans?
They swim on the back of Sarah Palin and make sure her head is underwater at all times.