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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 20:18    Post subject: Wildlife!
I saw a red fox cavorting in our field across the road yesterday. Tonight, I saw him again, (or her) and then I saw another fox higher up on the hill. We think maybe these are pups. Our neighbor has been doing some logging so perhaps these foxes are a bit displaced. Our meadow across the road is currently vacant of horse boarders so perhaps the wildlife is taking advantage of that.
I normally brake to about a stop for the deer 'gang' as I call them that loitrs at the bottom of a valley...it's a normal deer crossing point and probaly 2 of 5 days I come across the deer here...
I see turkeys and deer on a normal basis in the fields around here. It's so nice to live out in the country and be able to have these views...

What sort of wildlife do you see on a regular day?
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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 20:24    Post subject:
squirrels, chipmunks, cardinals mockingbirds and SUV drivers*.


*I consider them lower on the evolutionary chain.
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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 20:26    Post subject:
D-double-E-double-R-U-N.

Also fox on occasion.

Once or twice the past two or three summers, we've heard coyotes at night. Last week Monday morning (around 2 or 3 AM), LC heard some of them and woke me - I sort of heard them. A couple hours later, as I was driving to the train station, three of them crossed the road a hundred feet in front of the car - just trotting across single-file. A fourth stayed on the side of the road.
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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 20:31    Post subject:
gretriever wrote:
D-double-E-double-R-U-N.

Also fox on occasion.

Once or twice the past two or three summers, we've heard coyotes at night. Last week Monday morning (around 2 or 3 AM), LC heard some of them and woke me - I sort of heard them. A couple hours later, as I was driving to the train station, three of them crossed the road a hundred feet in front of the car - just trotting across single-file. A fourth stayed on the side of the road.
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Don't forget the goose! teehee
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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 20:37    Post subject:
JACKED UP wrote:
gretriever wrote:
D-double-E-double-R-U-N.

Also fox on occasion.

Once or twice the past two or three summers, we've heard coyotes at night. Last week Monday morning (around 2 or 3 AM), LC heard some of them and woke me - I sort of heard them. A couple hours later, as I was driving to the train station, three of them crossed the road a hundred feet in front of the car - just trotting across single-file. A fourth stayed on the side of the road.
Cool



Don't forget the goose! teehee
A certain part of my anatomy will not let that happen. Evil or Very Mad
















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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 22:11    Post subject:
Don't forget your snakes!

I see geese and ducks on a regular basis. I also have a ferocious beast named Rustydog.
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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 22:14    Post subject:


Squirrels, ducks (clipped wings), various songbirds, lizards, turtles, mothra.

Not common, but I've seen nutria, snakes, and alligators.

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PostPosted: 06/13/06 - 22:15    Post subject:
Fox and deer were regular sites on my early morning rides. Where they came from I have no idea
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PostPosted: 06/14/06 - 00:04    Post subject:
At my backyard and on my runs:
Lots of birds-various songbirds, woodpeckers, bald eagles, osprey, redtail hawks, Cooper's hawks, ducks, comorants, killdeer, Canada geese, kingfishers, owls, gulls, Great Blue herons, crows, ravens, American coot, hummingbirds just to name a few

squirrels (Carolina and Douglas Squirrels), rabbits, raccoons, mule deer, coyotes, skunks (dead ones so far), rats, gophers, garter snakes, frogs, salamanders, muskrat, beaver, black bear (one came to our backyard)

And plenty of insects, spiders and dead earthworms

Along waterways/beaches/docks:
otters, harbor seals, sea lions (saw a pair of them once swimming into an inlet), salmon, Other fish-seaperch, stickleback, herring, smelt, greenling, flatfish, blennies, sculpins, rockfish, lingcod

Inverts- sea stars, sea anemones, jellyfish, barnacles, crabs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, nudibranchs, snails, mussels, clams, oysters, worms, just to name a few
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PostPosted: 06/14/06 - 00:09    Post subject:
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Are they edible?
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PostPosted: 06/14/06 - 00:11    Post subject:
TimRuns wrote:
shelflifers wrote:
Are they edible?



Only if you're an idiot...














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PostPosted: 06/14/06 - 00:23    Post subject:
shelflifers wrote:
TimRuns wrote:
shelflifers wrote:
Are they edible?



Only if you're an idiot...














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But seriously, I've heard of people eating armadillo meat...
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PostPosted: 06/14/06 - 07:28    Post subject:
TimRuns wrote:
shelflifers wrote:
Are they edible?


Yep.... you fry em up in a pan with an old boot. When it's done you pitch the armadillo and eat the boot.
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PostPosted: 06/14/06 - 07:32    Post subject:
shelflifers wrote:
TimRuns wrote:
shelflifers wrote:
Are they edible?



Only if you're an idiot...


















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