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.
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06-06-2009, 05:35 PM #1
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06-13-2009, 02:32 AM #2
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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.Conquering illness, one step at time.
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06-13-2009, 05:34 AM #3
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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?
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06-18-2009, 04:02 AM #4
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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.Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
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06-18-2009, 04:39 AM #5
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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.
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06-18-2009, 07:42 AM #6
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I saw a ruffed grouse the other day. Hope someone doesn't shoot it. People do that here.
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06-22-2009, 08:46 PM #7
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Hawks
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
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