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Deer, squirrels, birds, lots of bugs, rabbits, toads, I've even seen a few snakes.
It's not my window, but a bald eagle has taken to observing the lake from a dead tree near where I moor my boat in the summer. It showed up two years ago, IIRC, as a juvenile, and I got to see it become white-headed. I usually see it in the morning when rowing to shore from the boat.
It's absolutely amazing to me to see one in the city, since they were so rare when I was a kid. It used to be that you'd have to go to the Prairie du Sac dam on the Wisconsin River in the winter to try to see a bald eagle, as they'd fish in the open, flowing water there when the rest of the river was iced over. Even then, it wasn't guaranteed you'd see one. Now, I see them as a part of my daily routine!
Can confirm, too, they use the hawk scream for bald eagle calls in movies and on TV, because their real call isn't intimidating. It sounds kind of like strangling a seagull.
Cows, sheep, a variety of birds, mice, and hedgehogs. I put up a bird feeder and I've been having a blast tracking all the visitors using an app.
Rabbits, robins and sparrows. Starlings. Occasional cardinal. Some squirrels, maybe a cat. Couple of coyotes every year. I know there are mice and frogs about because they fall into my window wells, but I don’t see them otherwise.
Usually just fat pigeons, some smaller birds (not sure what they are), and the neighbourhood cats.
I used to get squirrels and the occasional hedgehog in my old place.