Have seen a small grey fox a bunch of times during the past 7 months, usually after sundown, right when it's almost too dark to see anything, it shows up.  It's seen me several times, it'll watch me very carefully.  I usually stand there just looking at it from a distance, I won't approach it, don't want to frighten it.  Once I was washing my car right at sundown, it came around the corner of the house, slowly walking towards the neighbors jungle, taking a few steps, stopping and staring at me, a few more steps, etc., then disappeared into the woods there.

It's a really neat animal, I think it resides in my neighbor's jungle-like back yard.  There's actually two of them, saw both at the same time the other night, but that's rare, all other times just spotted only one.

Have had an assortment of wildlife over the years, a racoon or two, a passing possum, but those kind only showed once and never again.  Long ago for about a full year, a great blue heron would fly in at daybreak, park high up in a pine tree, sit there all day long, then fly off at sunset.  And once I opened the back door and a huge bald eagle took off from where it was roosting in another pine tree.  Never saw that before or again.

Only once have I seen a snake, a black snake maybe 2 feet long.  Not afraid of snakes, but they're just not around, never were.

And about this time of year we get turkey vultures gliding overhead.  Sometimes one will swoop low, one the other day at about 20 feet up.    On December 31, 1996, a huge swarm of them flew overhead in several groups, heading from the Everglades towards the Bay.  That was incredible and very unusual, there must have been a couple of hundred of them, fairly high up, maybe 200 feet or so. 

The neighborhood has seen Ibis, strays from the Everglades, frequently, they'll be a group of maybe a dozen, pecking around the grass for bugs, but only twice have they come into my yard.  Bummer, they're really cool birds and not too skittish.  I guess my bugs aren't as good as some around here.

No bears around here, and far enough from the Everglades so deer and [I think] small cougars or whatever don't show.  Sometimes people living near canals, esp in the county to the north, spot alligators, there was even one spotted in Lake Osceola at the Univ of Miami sometime ago, they swim in through canals and waterways. 

There's a lot of pythons now in the 'Glades, pets released by their owners mainly because the owners didn't realize that the "cute lil' critters" get really, really big when they grow up, so far, nothing like that.