Animals And Creatures Seen In Wdw

[disneyfan4u]

It seems like there are a lot of snakes at CBR and the CR. I wonder why so many there vs. other places.

 

[hannahmouse]

I saw a momma with her babies in the water around the castle from the little bridge to Tommorowland from the hub in the Magic Kingdom on 3/15/10! Super cute!

 

[zackiedawg]

I haven't posted in here in well over a year, so I guess I can add a few too!

I am a wildlife and bird photographer back home, so I'm always looking for opportunities while at Disney as well. Of course, Animal Kingdom presents great opportunities with the actual exhibit animals, but around Disney, as with much of Florida, there are always a few tropical animals around the grounds.

Here's a great egret sitting in the reflecting pool in front of the China Pavilion:

A great blue heron hanging out on the lake at Downtown Disney:

A little artistic motion-blur shot of a double crested cormorant flying past Pleasure Island:

A seagull on a Boardwalk Resort lamp:

A mockingbird singing in a rainbow, shot from my Boardwalk villa balcony:

 

[Stefy]

We went to cbr in september and after readingthis thread I was a bit freaked out....checking room for snakes etc. On our last day there we were walking on the path were it goes under the bridge with our two little ones is strollers and my husband points in the garden along the path way there was a monster of a black snake coiled up and it was thick like really thick. We assumed it was a water mocasin from looking at pics before we went. We also saw lots of tiny lizard creatures.

On day two of the same trip the clear cut the gardens in front of our room. took down all the trees and everything. My husband was outside and the gardeners said you the snake guy? Dh said NO and gut outta there quick lol.

We went to OKW two weeks ago and I was habby to report NO CREATURES

Jeepers That does not sound like fun.

I am totally there with you on the freaking out part (am scared stiff of snakes). In 2008 when we stayed at CSR I was obsessing over whether we would see any around the resort or in the room

We staying at the Poly this year and I have made sure to request a third floor room.

Beautiful pictures Justin

 

[Simba's Mom]

zackiedawg, as a birder who's seen lots of birding pictures, I really admire yours.

Last time I was at AK at dusk, I was amazed at all these birds in the trees by Camp Minnie Mickey. With the dim light, I wasn't sure what they were -maybe Catle Egret or Snowys?

 

[Reto]

That birdie on Walt's head didn't move on for minutes...

As a huge lover of all the big cats, you bet the tigers at AK are my favorites. Could watch them for hours:

 

[zackiedawg]

zackiedawg, as a birder who's seen lots of birding pictures, I really admire yours.

Last time I was at AK at dusk, I was amazed at all these birds in the trees by Camp Minnie Mickey. With the dim light, I wasn't sure what they were -maybe Catle Egret or Snowys?

Many thanks. I can't help but keep on photographing a lovely bird when I see it, even if they are the same birds I see and shoot at home!

Those birds roosting along the AK river are ibises, by the way. Thousands of them come home to roost there each night, from the Discovery Island bridge to Camp Minnie Mickey.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Many thanks. I can't help but keep on photographing a lovely bird when I see it, even if they are the same birds I see and shoot at home!

Those birds roosting along the AK river are ibises, by the way. Thousands of them come home to roost there each night, from the Discovery Island bridge to Camp Minnie Mickey.

Of course, thanks! Now I can see their pink bills.

 

[PrincessYessenia]

Saw this little lady with DBF while riding the surrey bikes at WL. We were soooo excited when we saw her!!! She was just munching on some grass and leaves when she saw us, so we stopped, and she just kept eating for another 5 minutes or so. It was so cool to just sit and watch her. She was gorgeous.

 

[PrincessYessenia]

What a beautiful pattern. I LOVE tigers Great picture.

 

[Marshypooh]

There are some absolutely beautiful pictures on this thread, but my favorite is the gorgeous doe taken by Princess Yessenia.

 

[PrincessYessenia]

There are some absolutely beautiful pictures on this thread, but my favorite is the gorgeous doe taken by Princess Yessenia.

Thank you!

 

[2TxAgs]

Can't find my giraffe pics from the savannah at AKL, but this one from the Flights of Wonder show is nice... Not exactly wild, unfortunately, but a good shot of our national symbol....

 

[BeachClub1292]

The cockroaches are gross but the bug we saw at SSR in 2008 was It looked like a moth but it was huge(4-5in wing span) and it had a lot of fur on it? It didn't move for 3 days, I think we took a picture of it I'll try to find it.

As for all the other animals we saw almost all of them in one round of golf on the Palms course. We saw gators(one was following a guy getting golfballs out of a pond), turtles, snakes, deer, armadillo's, turkey's, racoons(they tried to drive our golf cart another trip and stole my cookies), cranes, ducks, hawks and lizards yes in one round of golf it was our national geographic round

 

[Simba's Mom]

As for all the other animals we saw almost all of them in one round of golf on the Palms course. We saw gators(one was following a guy getting golfballs out of a pond),

Obviously, that was a golfer who doesn't live where gators frequent where he golfs. We do, and DH knows never to bother with a ball that's gone in the water. That's gator/golf rule #1.

 

[weewuvvdisney]

We had an armadillo come right up to dd as we were walking down to our building at ASMovies in March.

It was nightime and it was in the bushes. We watched it moving around and then it came right out to cross the path.


Now, did I already post this???????????? Can't remember.

If I did, I apologize..........short memory!

 

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[karebear06]

Has Anyone seen the duck at epcot near the Canada pavilion? He has a broken wing and cannot fly. The first time we saw him, we let a cast member know so the duck could get help. Well 2 days later, he was still there. We then complained to another cast member and she said that there was nothing they could do and he was fine. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Disney rehabilitates animals found on Disney property. At rafikis planet watch, they show an X-ray of a snake that ate a golf ball. Does anyone know anything about the duck?
Thanks

 

[zackiedawg]

Has Anyone seen the duck at epcot near the Canada pavilion? He has a broken wing and cannot fly. The first time we saw him, we let a cast member know so the duck could get help. Well 2 days later, he was still there. We then complained to another cast member and she said that there was nothing they could do and he was fine. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Disney rehabilitates animals found on Disney property. At rafikis planet watch, they show an X-ray of a snake that ate a golf ball. Does anyone know anything about the duck?
Thanks

I'll be there in 2 more days, and I'll keep an eye out for him - I love the ducks around the food stand there and usually stop to watch them for a while, so I'll look for any injured ones.

Disney does when possible try to help an injured animal on property, within reasonable limits - because they are wild, they're not always easy to catch and they won't go to extraordinary measures that could risk injury to CMs - and it might not go over well to pull out a tranq gun and shoot a duck with guests around either. Most likely, they'll look for an easy opportunity to grab the duck if he comes under the fence to beg for food, and if there are no guests around.

I had a peacock cut his foot pretty bad on my golf cart at Fort Wilderness Campground years ago...when we boarded the MK boat, the peacock was busy fighting with my cart (the males in mating season can get a little nutty, and fight any reflections they find...small metal number badges and rear view mirrors offer a few males to challenge). When we got back, the cart was covered in blood (not an exxageration...it was like Carrie at the prom) and we flagged down security...we fairly well knew it was the peacock, and were able to follow a fairly obvious blood trail back to where the bird was. It took them some time to corral the big bird...and he wasn't going without a fight either - the Wilderness personnel were helping to corral the bird towards one of the animal tenders from the petting zoo, where they finally convinced the bird to move into one of the goat pens and managed to get a big horse blanket over it. And that was probably a fairly dangerous capture as those things can cut you pretty good...but they had animal personnel there which helped. Though a duck won't cause much harm, they will run pretty quickly and lunge for the water if they can't fly, so not always easy to get your hands on them!