Off-Topic Share your animal friends!

Your camera man was either running circles around the two fighters or teleporting
 
Looks likes he’s got his eye on a bug!
 
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I saw almost 20 of these lil' ones in less than 3/4ths mile.
Juvenile Eastern Newts.
 
I hope these count - this morning, "someone" could not wait after our return from Tractor Supply......
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And I found half of my trash "problem" at the bottom of the ridge.......

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After last weeks blow-through - they've been moving.....I missed a pic of the mink crossing (I am surrounded by trout streams, all chocolate milk a week later, still) and a tumbling mess of skunks (one adult was white). The storm caused not just movement but damage as well. This is a game of peek-a-boo the GF and I played yesterday

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Damage:

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And this critter stands about 5 and 9.....

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We lost power last Friday till about Tuesday ------ But they worked on the cut for the high-voltage lines to the data center being built in the next hollow over the ridge.....and I literally have a line TIED to a tree in front of my driveway, because the pole is splintered and they, for lack of a better idea, taped together.
 
We’ve heard of a few bears around our area looking for food. Apparently in NC there is a a bunch of them near the beach, it is called Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, and is about 45 - 60 minutes inland from the Outer Banks (Nags Head). Good food sources and they say there some of biggest black bears around.
 
cbach8tw said:
We’ve heard of a few bears around our area looking for food. Apparently in NC there is a a bunch of them near the beach, it is called Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, and is about 45 - 60 minutes inland from the Outer Banks (Nags Head). Good food sources and they say there some of biggest black bears around.
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As of 2010 - I would have to check again, but the second largest black in the WORLD at 875 live and 744 dressed - was "harvested" out of a dumpster he had been visiting for 17 years, about 20 mins up the road.

eta - The dudes kin got a 774 about 15 mins away, season prior to last
 
CrepuscularGimlet said:
As of 2010 - I would have to check again, but the second largest black in the WORLD at 875 live and 744 dressed - was "harvested" out of a dumpster he had been visiting for 17 years, about 20 mins up the road.

eta - The dudes kin got a 774 about 15 mins away, season prior to last
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What area are you located?
 
Bears are terrifying. Pure power.
 
cbach8tw said:
What area are you located?
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NEPA
David Mary said:
Bears are terrifying. Pure power.
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A black attacked a campsite in MT earlier this week IIRC (the ladies hadn't lifted the food in a bag, but kept it in their tent) - but TBH, I respect enough then enough that blacks aren't as scary as some of the ledges I prowl (timbers are common - a guy almost died a couple years back bc he was drunk and picked it up for a better picture - the EMTs who life-flighted him showed me his pre-adjustment picture they screen shotted off his phone. I am not creul, but I laughed).
 
CrepuscularGimlet said:
aren't as scary as some of the ledges I prowl (timbers are common - a guy almost died a couple years back bc he was drunk and picked it up for a better picture - the EMTs who life-flighted him showed me his pre-adjustment picture they screen shotted off his phone.
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I am not sure what this means. Ledges? Pick what up? Pre-adjustment? I feel like I am lacking in some kind life of experience that would contextualize all this for me.
 
Eastern timber rattlers. Rock ledges and outcroppings are sunning spots and gathering spots around den sites, especially for pregnant females. I don't hunt snakes, but last month was the season (a week IIRC). The drunk hiker picked up a rattling snake, for a better picture, because he did not like the first one he took. I also have a stream nearish that is loaded with copperheads.

eta - apologies for the lack of context/clarity
 
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