It has been a big year for wildlife. We have had 3 deer at the same time on our backyard hill, had a doe and a very young fawn walk right past our house, had a deer drink out of the birdbath, had 2 river otters run across the back lawn, many birds (hummingbirds especially, and an owl that sat on a tree and ignored all efforts to make it leave), several raccoon in the neighbourhood, not to mention squirrels, etc.
And last week (on a trip to Saskatchewan) had a young black bear walk across the road in front of us.