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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 10:12 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Here are a few of our friends and neighbors:





I also have a few videos in my photo album. Just click on the "My Garden" link under my user name to the left.

Kathy

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone " 4b"
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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 10:44 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I do miss New England!

I love your bat photo!

Kniphofia - Northumberland, Zone "?"
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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 11:24 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I can't believe you got that bat.

Loretta - NJ, Zone "6"
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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 01:45 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Where was the bat Kathy? Looks like you got really close. Brilliant! Never managed to get a pic of mine. Cute baby bear and fox too. Are they deer or moose in the other picture?

Growit - Hampshire, Zone "8/9"
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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 03:10 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

The bat was hanging on my greenhouse door screen.
And they are a moose mom and baby.

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone " 4b"
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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 05:52 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Kathy: Glad that you posted here.
The first time I saw a bat (at our house here) I thought, "how strange they look". Their legs look like they're amputated and then have a little claw at the end. They're fascinating.

And what I really find fascinating is the moose and her calf! I would Love to see one in the wild someday. They are in my area---but rarely.

Were you in somewhat of a protective area (like above) for the photo of the black bear?

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Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 - 06:45 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I was at my greenhouse door when the young bear came around. He started coming up the steps towards some plants that I didn't want disturbed by him so I gave him a "Git outta here!", he hissed at me so I hissed back louder and he backed down and stayed off the steps. If you check my photo album, I have a video of a large adult bear just separated by the glass of my greenhouse door. He had a bit before, stolen my birdfeeder that was hanging outside the door, and was coming back to see if there might be another one to pilfer. He hung around for a long time just laying on the ground licking up sunflower seeds that had spilled from his ill gotten gains.

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone " 4b"
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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 01:11 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

The bear was a little freaky, but then I watched the squirrel. You're a brave lady, lol! Love your greenhouse and the fact you have a sitting area in there to enjoy it.

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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 03:32 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thanks Cindy,
I've gotten used to the bears around here. When we first moved up here I was deathly afraid of them thinking they would break in the house and devour me (they DO break into houses, but so far not ours). A bear did tear off my screen door this past spring though, but I was more ticked off than scared.
They are usually timid and run when they hear or smell you, they have poor eyesight and that is why the large bear in the video is so close, he doesn't see me and I moved very slowly.
We have quite an array of wildlife visiting our yard. I have yet to get a good picture of the coyotes, bobcat, porcupine, and turkey flocks and the moose don't come up by the house anymore since our Staghorn Sumac has gotten too large for them to reach the berries.
I try to keep my video camera and digital camera close at hand so I can always be ready to document what we get and when. It's always fun to see critters, even those bandits the terrorizing raccoons...they're as big as dogs!

Kathy

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone " 4b"
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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 04:37 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I enjoyed the videos so much! Did you feel the little claws of the squirrel on your legs?
Glad that you reminded us how nearsighted bears are; the adult definitely used his nose more than his eyes.

Love your old roses too! And the Rosa Glauca. I'm hoping that mine will finally bloom this year---I hope.

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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 06:18 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I'm glad you like the videos Denise, yes the squirrel's tiny claws sometimes tickled and sometimes hurt, like when he was starting to slide off. Ouch! had to grit my teeth a couple times.
I wish I knew the name of the old rose, I got it from an old abandoned home site (over 100 yrs). The blooms are fairly small, about 2 1/2 to 3", but oh so hardy.
The R. glauca is very easy to grow and bloom, the one in the picture is the mother to several grown seedling plants that I have scattered about the yard, they grow so fast and look so pretty even when not in bloom. It would be nice if the bloom time lasted a bit longer though.

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone " 4b"
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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 06:43 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Neat critters you have there, Kathy! Since we have dogs here I would not want to have bear around but they're always fun to see away from home. :) We've had bats around, and the rare fox. MI has moose but I believe they're mostly in the Upper Peninsula.

Sunnyday2day - Tanya-Michigan, Zone "5"
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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 07:15 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Tanya, we have a dog, every time he sees a bear whether he is inside or in his pen, he whines...wants to play with it, the bears don't pay attention to him though, they just leave, they'd rather not tangle with a dog or some cats for that matter. We have a stray cat that whacked a young (about 2 yrs) bear in the nose when it got too close to the food scraps I threw out to the cat. Bear turned tail and skidaddled. I think people see too many, and I was one of them, bear attack shows on tv and think all bears are like that. We have scads of bears here but you don't see them most of the time because they stay out of you way and sight. A local woman was hanging out clothes one spring day and felt something on her leg, looked down and there were two cubs at her feet.
She turned around and momma was right behind her. Yikes! I would have dropped dead on the spot, but they (the bears) just passed her by on their way to wherever they were going. So the bears aren't as scary as they seem although
I wouldn't take foolish chances with them. :)

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone " 4b"
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Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 10:47 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Great locals! I read that female moose with a calf injure more ppl than bull moose!

Duckwatcher - Northern California, Zone "9b"
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 10:57 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

A moose or deer might be cute, but when you are driving and they jump out in front of ya, it's the most scariest thing as I found out 2 weeks ago with a huge Deer

Bluewillow - Ontario Canada, Zone "Zone 5b"
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 04:56 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Yes, Bluewillow, many folks are injured and their vehicles totaled due to moose/vehicle collisions here in our town. My husband is the police chief here and is always very busy responding to these types of collisions, especially in the spring when the moose come to drink water along the roadsides that has road salt in it.
I have a few pictures in my photo album labeled "Moose accidents from the files of JPD". The alum is located on the left-hand side in a list of other album names. To get to the main page, click on "My Garden" under my user name, but I must warn you that some of the pictures are graphic so proceed with caution.
In most cases, the collisions occured because of failure to obey speed limits, inattentive driving, or both. So everyone, take things a little slower, and keep alert where moose or deer (which tend to leap out without warning) are known to be in the area.
We have signs posted throughout NH with the warning:
"Brake for Moose, It Could Save Your Life."

So true.

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone "4b"
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 05:11 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

The area where I had my front car damaged a day before on xmas eve, was the same area a man was decapitated a few years back when he and his wife hit a deer, and it went through the windshield, cut his head off, and ended up in the back site, causing major injuries to the wife, but the husband was dead right there of course.

Another person got killed when they ran into a moose in Montreal, a while back.

Bluewillow - Canada, Zone "Zone 5"
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 07:22 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Bluewillow wrote on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 05:11 pm:

and it went through the windshield



It happens a lot with moose because of their long legs. In one of the pictures in my album (with the truck), if the hood of the truck had not popped up and covered the windshield, the driver would have been killed.
The pictures with the red car was the man's second accident in the same spot one month later. Both of his cars were totaled and he was injured in the second accident. It is almost always fatal for the moose. And by the way, it is illegal to remove a moose carcass from an accident sight, they are given to people (who are on a list) to butcher for the meat, unless the person who struck the moose wants it.

Vilcat - New Hampshire, Zone "4b"

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