A few rare sights.

Wow! these are awesome pics.
All very impressive, especially Merganser, Wolf, and Loon just popping out of water.
So envious that you have such a field with rich wildlife.
 
DOC-CANADA said:
Hey goatariba, were you canoeing on the Groundhog?

Doc
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i have canoed the groundhog, but these pictures were mostly taken on horwood lake actually. that white moose is the only i've ever seen and it was on the banks of horwood.
pretty stunning country ain't it? wild stuff. i love it more than anywhere else i've known.
lotsa talk in town lately (foleyet) that the first bull white moose seen in several decades has been spotted on the groundhog though (the last known bull was killed by a train some decades back near foleyet and rests proudly in the local restaurant mounted)
 
fujita yuji said:
Wow! these are awesome pics.
All very impressive, especially Merganser, Wolf, and Loon just popping out of water.
So envious that you have such a field with rich wildlife.
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thank you kindly, i've watched your pictures closely, beautiful stuff.
please post new pictures of your knew knife at work. other than cutting up a sandwich haha. those are stunning. i sent you a PM.
 
goatariba said:
i have canoed the groundhog, but these pictures were mostly taken on horwood lake actually. that white moose is the only i've ever seen and it was on the banks of horwood.
pretty stunning country ain't it? wild stuff. i love it more than anywhere else i've known.
lotsa talk in town lately (foleyet) that the first bull white moose seen in several decades has been spotted on the groundhog though (the last known bull was killed by a train some decades back near foleyet and rests proudly in the local restaurant mounted)
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The Groundhog is a great trip. Did it back in the '80's. Here's a picture from there: :D (I'm the handsome dude on the right! :D )

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Sorry baldtaco-II. :o

Doc
 
Great photo's! Can you tell us what type of camera and lens you use.

Tell me about that black bear encounter. Were you on foot or in car? How did he react to you after spotting/smelling you nearbye? I'm always interested in hearing how they react to humans.
 
PorcupineMtns66 said:
Great photo's! Can you tell us what type of camera and lens you use.

Tell me about that black bear encounter. Were you on foot or in car? How did he react to you after spotting/smelling you nearbye? I'm always interested in hearing how they react to humans.
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ofcourse no problem, it's a Canon Rebel XT. i have two lenses don't know enough about cameras to tell you what you know probably (i'm more of a "one's for close one's for far" kinda person right now haha) but one is canon 18-55mm the other is canon 55-200mm.
as for the bears i have had MANY encounters with them, mostly they run, i've had a few scary encounters. doing bear baiting and working fish camps basically begging them to come around me haha, but nothing too serious, had one purposely get between me and my boat once on land dumping fish guts at our regular dump spot but didn't amount to anything. it's just sort of a fact of life i guess.
some idiot rookie cop shot one with a handgun last week wounding it, my buddy took it down a couple days later when it showed up in his yard. things like that are not uncommon around the area.

DOC-CANADA said:
The Groundhog is a great trip. Did it back in the '80's. Here's a picture from there: :D (I'm the handsome dude on the right! :D )

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Sorry baldtaco-II. :o

Doc
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i have seen that picture MANY times on here. i can see you've always been an ultralight packer haha, i didn't realize that was the groundhog though! what a classic shot.
 
For those who don't realize it, the two canoes were lashed together for sailing - yes, goatariba, we sailed into Fauquier. :D

Doc
 
goatariba said:
as for the bears i have had MANY encounters with them, mostly they run, i've had a few scary encounters. doing bear baiting and working fish camps basically begging them to come around me haha, but nothing too serious, had one purposely get between me and my boat once on land dumping fish guts at our regular dump spot but didn't amount to anything. it's just sort of a fact of life i guess.
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Are the black bears in your area conditioned to people? Example... careless campers leaving food scraps at the camp site after they leave or not hanging food overnight while camping. In my experience at well used areas I have been to, a campsite is a regular daily/nightly stop for them and they tend to be aggressive when they see you with a backpack.
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Those are some great pics...the wolf curled up is an amazing picture. Thank for sharing those.
 
So different to the types of critters we get around our way!

I really enjoyed those photos - thank you! :D
 
Awesome pics :thumbup:

That pic of the Lynx getting out of the water is a cool pic. I thought cats didn't like water :)
 
Thanks, those are some great pictures. The critters around here are much different. Though I have seen Bobtails and Bald Eagles. Mostly gators, Otters and wading birds.

I love sailing my canoe.

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PorcupineMtns66 said:
Are the black bears in your area conditioned to people? Example... careless campers leaving food scraps at the camp site after they leave or not hanging food overnight while camping. In my experience at well used areas I have been to, a campsite is a regular daily/nightly stop for them and they tend to be aggressive when they see you with a backpack.
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Ppl are pretty few and far between up here. aside from the city dump (there are only a few hundred residents within 110km in any direction.) and the city dump is being surrounded by a high fence (though even a ten foot fence likely won't stop a hungry black bear.) so i'd say that no they are not conditioned to ppl.

myright said:
Awesome pics :thumbup:

That pic of the Lynx getting out of the water is a cool pic. I thought cats didn't like water :)
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you're 100% right! it's likely that she was driven into the water by something scarier, bear, cougar or wolves. sasquatch?

DOC-CANADA said:
For those who don't realize it, the two canoes were lashed together for sailing - yes, goatariba, we sailed into Fauquier. :D

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what did you have as a sail? we used to do the same and tie a tent tarp up to paddles or whatever we had. for those who don't know most of this area is north of the arctic watershed, all water flows north into james bay.
 
goatariba said:
what did you have as a sail?
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This is how we rigged the sail. First of all we lashed 2 saplings across the canoes, one at the back of the bow seat and one across the centre thwart. Next we lashed 2 saplings to the ends of the sapling at the back of the bow seat and then together at the other end. Next we lashed a cross sapling below the crossed pieces. This picture depicts how the saplings looked while being lashed to the canoe.
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A rope was tied between the bow of one canoe and the end of the crossed saplings so that the sail could not fall on the paddlers. A line was also tied to the crossed saplings with the other end loose, to be controlled by the stern paddler. Pulled up when the wind was in the right direction, and lowered when it was not. (The crossed saplings would pivot on the bow seat sapling.)
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A small tarp was attached (shown by the dotted lines.)

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When the wind was good, we could move so fast that if, we had hit bottom, it probably would have ripped the bottom out of the canoes. With the canoes lashed together, the whole rig was uber sturdy. You could walk back and forth between them. When the wind was in the wrong direction or still, the canoes could still be paddled - from lawn chairs, if necessary. :rolleyes:

I'll see if I can find some more pictures, later. Have to go to work now.

Doc
 
GREAT pictures goat! I especially like the white moose, the lynx, wolves and loon.

Were the loons eyes red or did the camera do that?

I think it is amazing to see a lynx like that. Cats seem to mostly avoid being seen.

In Connecticut, they claim(the "experts") there are no mountain lions, but I had one run right in front of my truck one night a few years ago. There is no other animal that has a tail like that and I saw that clearly.

Peter
 
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