Hello Swamp Witch,
Have I got your attention? Nature on PBS this week has the same title as this thread. I thought you would want to know.
Ed
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Hello Swamp Witch,
Have I got your attention? Nature on PBS this week has the same title as this thread. I thought you would want to know.
Ed
Cool! Got a day and time?
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1...y/P9151026.jpg
Those look like Dakota mules to me. ;)
Larry ---sagefisher---
No, Larry! Those are Wyoming twig eaters! Momma and baby who kept me company on a most narrow stream for about three hours one sunny day! What a thrill it was!
If Betty's vehicle had been big enough and her backyard had a meadow big enough and wet enough, they would have become Kansas twig eaters.
Ed
True ...;)
Maine twig eater from this past June... about 2 weeks old
http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9ajjgpzj.png
Beautiful. So wish "my" moose were closer than a 1000 mile drive!
The PBS Nature show on moose was marvelous! Catch it on reruns if you can... It is more than worth your time...
A friend lives in Jackson, Wyoming. Here is a picture she posted a week or so ago of a friendly moose standing on her backdoor deck.........
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...psro7r24dg.jpg
How do you tell the friendly ones from the not so friendly ones?
By the look in their eyes and the way they charged after you!!
All kidding aside, you don't want to approach any wild animal. Especially a wild animal with a baby. They don't appreciate it ... not in the least.
I once walked right up to a big bull without seeing him.
At first I tried to slowly back away but when he started to come at me I turned and ran, screaming like a little girl
Worked for me :shock:
Hiking here
http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2kkkwiqf.jpg
we ran into
http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/...psppzrsblm.jpg
http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/...pszbqfeq25.jpg
http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/...psaan35ofv.jpg
Didn't plan on getting this close but, luckily, the moose was much more interested in the vegetation than us. That wasn't the case back in 1990. Ran across bull and a few cows up at Kootenai Lakes; he made it very clear that we were not welcome and we got out as quickly as we could.
Regards,
Scott
Here in AK more people are seriously hurt by moose every year than bears...
My moose this past fall was a big bull fighting with another. After my bull "donated by default" all of his cows to the second bull I found myself with locked eyeballs on the winner bull at less than 15 yards. I started to get the idea he would not understand what I had done for him and got right into some thick stuff to prevent him from coming after me.
As kids we used to sneak up to feeding moose and see who could slap them and get away... had some dramatic responses and wonder how no one died... 50 years have changed my attitudes quite a bit toward that behavior.
art
The willows along side the stream in Wyoming are so tall and thick, we've learned to crawl through the "tunnels" the wildlife has made to get to the waters. The other thing we've learned about these tunnels, is that if you get movin' down one that starts to smell like a livery stable that hasn't been cleaned in quite a while ... 9 times out of 10, there'll be a moose bedded down VERY close. Ever so quietly you need to back out, and hope you don't wake the moose.
I caught that nature episode twice that week..I love nature n pbs in general..watching Loretta Lynn on pbs right now for the second time tonight..n since its nearly 4 am I really should go to bed after this is over lol