Fresh Batteries are a good thing

[hollowdweller]

So I was hiking last night in my woods.

I've been setting on my ass doing too much computering so I am trying to do my 2 mile nightly hike again.

Anyway when I put on my headlight I could see the batteries were down so I just put the light more straight down so I could see what was immediately in front of me. It was foggy too.

I was doing ok I go up this old road to my neighbors old orchard on the ridge. He owns about 90 acres and doesn't live on it so we have permission to hike there:thumbup:

So I took Bear, my border collie with me and he always gets way in front of me and I call him back. I have to keep him tied up during the day or he will kill my poultry so he really runs when I take him on a hike.

I 'm going down this hill into the woods. It's an old road path and no Bear. Just as I'm about to call him I see him in the haze in front of me. But why is he so low to the ground? As I got real near him i realized it was a big skunk!

So I back off and the skunk falls in line with me and leads me walking for about 25y down the hill finally he disappears in the mist so I'm carefully scanning each side with the weak light to make sure he's not waiting there with his tail jacked up waiting for me

I wish I'd a brought a camera. He was so close I coulda got him with a flash but not sure if that would have got him to spray

 

[mete]

A seeing eye skunk !! Rule # 1 with electronics - always carry extra batteries !

 

[1Tracker]

HD a flash usually does the trick to get the skunk to spray. Just 2 nights ago my neighbor was on his deck having a smoke yakkin' with me, when the biggest skunk either of us had ever seen waddles by in a way only skunks do. If you've seen one in person you know what I'm talking about! At first we both said 'Boo!' thinking it was a neighbor's pesky spraying male cat....but then we both saw the stripe down the back at the same moment the skunk turned to us and stared as if to sday, "Yah?, what YOU guys gonna do about ME being on your deck, eh?" Of course I told Brian to remain dead still, then Brian let's out one of the loudest farts I've ever heard a man make...you know the rest...the skunk let loose right on his deck! I beat it for my truck and made it out of the zone, while brian was making for the other side of the deck. bad move, he got caught downwind and his wife made him leave his clothes outside! Nothing funnier than a bare naked guy in 20f weather with his wife yelling through his front door at him!!! Least it was'nt me that caused the stink~

I had 3 farm cats corner a she coon back against a brush pile the other day and had to go out and drag all three of the cats away....after I sat a large trash can over the coon. Once it calmed down I tipped the can over and let it run off. I figured it was'nt rabid, just that the cats had found it under the porch and woke it up from it's bed. I usually hear a few of them outside at night under my bedroom window scouring the ground for birdseed.

 

[hollowdweller]

At my old house we had one used to come out in the field and it was solid black except for a spot on one rump about the size of a baseball.