Rare animals?

[okrattler]

I saw a picture of a Spotted Skunk the other day and realized it's been over 25 years since I last saw a live one. I saw one dead on the side of the highway probably 6 years ago. Matter of fact those are the only two I've ever seen in my life. It's funny what we can remember and I vividly recall seeing that funny looking skunk doing a hand stand. I was little when I saw it but it standing up on its front legs stuck with me. Odd how some things from that long ago just stick with you.

What's something you haven't seen in years?

[Walker]

Horned toad in South texas. Saw a bunch in New Mexico, and cedar waxwings

[Drycreek3189]

An honest politician.

[ACbob]

An honest politician.

All right, let's not devolve into fictional characters.

[okrattler]

An honest politician.

Heck, you have a better chance of seeing Sasquatch. I ain't ever seen one of those.

[okrattler]

Horned toad in South texas. Saw a bunch in New Mexico, and cedar waxwings

See horned toads fairly often but I bet it's been every bit of 15 years since I last saw a Waxwing. I hadn't thought about those in quite a while honestly.

[okrattler]

Up until a few years ago I had never seen a Wood Duck. Saw three of them. Prettiest ducks I've ever seen by far.

[RifleBowPistol]

Javelina, horn toads, blue quail, bob white quail, been a very long time since I last got to hunt blues, I really miss hunting those things. Another thing I have not seen in years, are some kind of huge toad, that buries it' self deep in the mud. I have only seen them once or twice 40 something years ago, when I was a kid, at my grandparent's house. It had rained a lot, for weeks, the ground was very saturated, they had around 35 acers on the Nueces River, on the edge of Corpus. But a crew came out and started digging the ditch out, much deeper in front of their place to improve drainage. Afterwards, there were huge toads all along where they dug out that ditch. Those toads must have been buried 3 ft. or more down. These things were about the size of 6" to 8" diameter plate. My grandparents had never seen those toads previously. I had figured out, when it rained, you could drop vegetable cans in the ditches, leave them there for an hour or so, then come back and pick them up, and usually have a crawdad in the can. So I was trying to catch crawdads, with cans, then found a huge toad, caught that. Then quickly realized there was another, and then quickly realized there were a bunch of them all around the freshly dug out ditch. Only saw those toads, after one or two monsoon seasons we had. Somewhere there is an old picture of me holding one of those toads.

Other things I have not seen in may years, are hognose snakes, water moccasins, and blue indigos. I don't miss the moccasins, and their attitudes. Other things I have not seen in years, are what we used to call glass snakes, supposedly they are actually legless lizards. They grow to about 1 1/2' long, their tails will break off easily, but they will regrow new tails. They are kind of strange things.

Of the things I listed most have dropped in population some to a lot, but at the same time, I don't live or hunt in the same areas I used to, when growing up, so that's the biggest reason I don't see those critters anymore.

I have never seen a spotted skunk, or at least that I can remember. Now I have pictures of a skunk that is more white than black. It was basically a white skunk, with a black stripe. I wanted to shoot it and get it mounted, but never actually saw it in person, only on camera. It showed up a few times to my feeder.

[RifleBowPistol]

An honest politician.

You have seen honest politicians in years past?!!! Where did you ever seen an honest politician, oh wait, I forgot about Regan, I guess there were a few.

[BayouCat]

Box turtles. Used to pick those up as a kid all the time. Haven't seen one on the road in ages.

[curtintex]

An honest politician.

I remember when I was a kid, going to the voting box with my dad. A man out front said to my dad, "Ray, I want you to vote for my friend for State Representative" to which my dad replied, "Why should I vote for him?". The man said, "Because he's honest", to which my dad replied, "How about I just vote for the other guy so your friend can stay honest". That stuck with me.

[doghouse]

Horned Toad and Bobwhite Quail in Mills county. In their replacement we now have hogs.

[flywise]

Horned Toad and Bobwhite Quail in Mills county. In their replacement we now have hogs.

Or Bell, Lampasas etc

[kerrbow]

Ringtail. Been a lot of years since I saw one in the wild. Neat critter.

[txtimetravler]

I saw a ringtail on the San Saba river last month. First one I’ve seen in 20 years since I saw one in a deer blind in Segovia/junction area.