Saw these turkey vultures (eight of them!) around a dead deer on my ride in Allamuchy, NJ a few weeks ago. I also saw two live deer (YAY!) bounding across the road, and two snakes.
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Saw these turkey vultures (eight of them!) around a dead deer on my ride in Allamuchy, NJ a few weeks ago. I also saw two live deer (YAY!) bounding across the road, and two snakes.
Unfortunately I didn't have a camera immediately on hand and this was not observed while cycling:
Just saw an hr. ago, while at home, a bald-headed eagle wheeling around outside our window...probably over 200+ft. away from our window.
We live in downtown Vancouver...many building stories high..several times ten-fold. So to see this in the heart of the city, not totally rare. There is the odd eagle's nest here and there amongst the city hustle and bustle somewhere. But not typical either.
We saw a red fox today. First live one I've seen in more than a year. Only two of our group made it over the crest of the hill in time to see the fox, before it darted into the woods.
I was tootling along several months ago, alongside a nature reserve and a big red roo bounded up besides me( scaring the living crap out of me mind you!) and was jumping along the creek which it didn't want to cross and up the slight hill on other side, is road and suburbs) for about 500 metres. That was nice.
I see lots of magpies, which is nice -until breeding season and they swoop to try to peck your eyes out!
Occasional cockies flying overhead( cockatoos) and the occasional scare from big birds bombing past my face( almost all birds in Oz are HUGE).
Oh and since I am on the rural edge, cows.Lots of cows.
Not on a ride but I was driving a favorite route to verify the work they finally did on the two year old flood damaged bridge and saw a PEACOCK. Beautiful, big and bright. I hope to see him again when riding, I guess he was an escapee from a local ranch around there?
First antlers of the season, a healthy looking six-point buck in velvet.
(For those who don't live in white-tailed deer country, only the males have antlers, and they shed them each year after the rutting season. When their antlers first grow out, they're covered in fuzzy "velvet" that eventually rubs off.)
Then we saw some birds that I have absolutely no idea what they were. They appeared to be some type of exotic, which explains why they're not in my bird books, and they were running around loose so they're apparently laying fowl. Wish I knew what they were.
I didn't have the camera but the scissortails are really out in high number this year. Those are some cool birds! I have a whole mess of birds that have moved into my finches nest since they have left. I have to figure out what they are.
I saw a ruffed grouse the other day. Hope someone doesn't shoot it. People do that here.
The red tailed hawk family I've been watching had a tragedy. One of the babies was killed when he tried to fly over a busy street and fell into traffic. He was found with a rat in his talons (possibly his first kill).
The other two babies are thriving, and enjoyed a food fight this morning. A photographer documented the event here:
http://thebethlenz.blogspot.com/2009/06/food-fight.html
Pam
I - and two cars - had to yield to a large family (or possibly two families) of Canada geese crossing the street this morning. There were at least a dozen...the youngsters definitely had the adult coloring, but were noticably smaller. The largest one - possibly the adult male - stayed in the lane longest and gave me the stink eye as I rode past, trying to shoo it off the road.
The official state mammal! The was actually at our campsite post mountain bike ride, but close enough.
So, I didn't find this on a ride, but I didn't know where to post this so it's going here. This was scrounging in our yard yesterday morning. It looked very wild. It was about the size of a large lab, except it was very lean and muscular. Long white face. Ringed tail and large black paws.
Labradoodle experiment gone wrong???? Definitely not a red fox (I've had a lot of people say that). It was about twice the size of a fox and, as I mentioned earlier, it has a ringed tail.
There's a ZONKEY on one of my weekly routes. A zonkey is a Zebra/Donkey hybrid. He's very cute.
I just saw the guy this week, though he's been there for years apparently.
I need to remember to take a camera on my next ride.
:D Please take a picture of the ZONKEY!
Limewave, you posted it on the other thread too. It looks like a fox with ringworm.Quote:
Originally Posted by limewave