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IMScotty wrote:
Is that a bat?
Or Beelzebub?
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
i thought bats were good??
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odd man out wrote:
i thought bats were good??
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
odd man out wrote:
Went for a 5.5 mile walk yesterday. The trail starts on a long wooden staircase going up and down a dune and ends at a secluded beach. As walking on the stairs, i saw a small fox dart under the wooden boardwalk right below me. It was only a few feet away but I just got a quick glimpse of it before it disappeared under the deck so i couldn'tget a pic. I don't remember the last i saw a fox.
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Southern end of PJHoffmaster State Park, between Muskegon and Grand Haven. I parked at North Beach Park and hiked through North Ottawa Dunes (both county parks) about 2.5 miles to get to the beach. The trail is in the woods off the beach. All three parks' trails are connected.
google these coordinates to map it.
43.107832,-86.266597
Yes walking on loose sand is pain in butt. On this hike, there was a short walk over loose sand from the woods to the beach. Once on the beach, walking on the wet sand at the waters edge is easy. You could walk for miles in either direction on the beach. The park goes 2 miles nort. To the south, the waterfront is private property, but property law in MI says that private property goes to the high water mark and beyond that is public right of way. So i could have walked 2 miles on the beach back to the car, as long as I stay on wet sand and keep moving. I could go anothe 1.5 miles to the channel at Gran Haven. The only thing that would prevent you from beach walking 100 miles south to New Buffalo or 150 north to Lelenau would be river channels, which you could swim or wade, although the bigger ones (like Gran Haven) would be dicy. There could be a couple of industrial sites you would have to by pass. I've sometimes wondered id anyone ever thru hiked lake Michigan the longest fresh water beach in the world. -
odd man out wrote:
I've sometimes wondered id anyone ever thru hiked lake Michigan the longest fresh water beach in the world.
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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IMScotty wrote:
odd man out wrote:
I've sometimes wondered id anyone ever thru hiked lake Michigan the longest fresh water beach in the world.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Astro wrote:
IMScotty wrote:
odd man out wrote:
I've sometimes wondered id anyone ever thru hiked lake Michigan the longest fresh water beach in the world.
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I always enjoy a good Catamount story. This town is near New Haven of all places...
necn.com/news/national-interna…oodbridge-police/2775360/“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier -
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Those are so cool…prizewinning photos!Lost in the right direction.
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Impressionist art OMO?
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After many years of searching, and becoming a running joke among my friends, I finally saw a porcupine up close in the wild. Heck I practically walked right into him as I was star gazing and walking a dirt road without my headlamp on.Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
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Sarcasmtheelf wrote:
After many years of searching, and becoming a running joke among my friends, I finally saw a porcupine up close in the wild. Heck I practically walked right into him as I was star gazing and walking a dirt road without my headlamp on.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
I think I have seen two porcupines in the last half century. One was on the AT.
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Astro wrote:
Sarcasmtheelf wrote:
After many years of searching, and becoming a running joke among my friends, I finally saw a porcupine up close in the wild. Heck I practically walked right into him as I was star gazing and walking a dirt road without my headlamp on.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them. -
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Sorry about the poor photo. But this butt-ugly bird was hanging around the patio of my parent's apartment. It's hard to see but it's head is almost completely naked. After a bit of Googling, we find it is a molting female Cardinal. This link shows a better picture. We have lots of Cardinals in our yard, but have never seen anything like this.
reddit.com/r/birdpics/comments…ern_cardinal_location_is/
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I have not personally seen it yet, but...
Neighbors say they have found bear scat in their yard. Wife said she thought a racoon had been messing with canister of fertilizer (plant food), but it was too dirty. Now she thinks it was the bear. There are 2 acres of woods between us and the neighbors, so I am hoping that is not his new hangout.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Astro wrote:
I have not personally seen it yet, but...
Neighbors say they have found bear scat in their yard. Wife said she thought a racoon had been messing with canister of fertilizer (plant food), but it was too dirty. Now she thinks it was the bear. There are 2 acres of woods between us and the neighbors, so I am hoping that is not his new hangout.
My worry is that one of them will discover my beehive. I don't have the time to set up electric fencing to protect it right now. They might relocate the trouble makers, but it looks like the bears are here to stay. Oh by the way Astro, these bears really seem to travel in their daily routine. One will be spotted in one location, and then will be sighted again 3-4 miles away just an hour or so later. I assumed they are all juvenile males (they travel the most from their home territory), but I am not so sure anymore. We may have breeding pairs which will be a new development in this part of Massachusetts.“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier -
IMScotty wrote:
Astro wrote:
I have not personally seen it yet, but...
Neighbors say they have found bear scat in their yard. Wife said she thought a racoon had been messing with canister of fertilizer (plant food), but it was too dirty. Now she thinks it was the bear. There are 2 acres of woods between us and the neighbors, so I am hoping that is not his new hangout.
My worry is that one of them will discover my beehive. I don't have the time to set up electric fencing to protect it right now. They might relocate the trouble makers, but it looks like the bears are here to stay. Oh by the way Astro, these bears really seem to travel in their daily routine. One will be spotted in one location, and then will be sighted again 3-4 miles away just an hour or so later. I assumed they are all juvenile males (they travel the most from their home territory), but I am not so sure anymore. We may have breeding pairs which will be a new development in this part of Massachusetts.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
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How would a black bear fare against Africanized bees?
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WanderingStovie wrote:
How would a black bear fare against Africanized bees?
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier -
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IMScotty wrote:
Nice, looks like you have a DeKay's Brown Snake in the first photo.
But I would rather he be in a hurry to get away than in a hurry coming at me.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
My father's 90th birthday was yesterday. He lives in a senior citizen home in Springfield IL. They were told to stay inside because there was a mountain lion in their suburban neighborhood. Wildlife biogists tranqiluzed the cat in someone's backyard, just 1/2 mile from dad's apartment. It has been relocated to a big cat rescue center in Indiana. The cat had been fiited with a GPS collar in Nebraska last year, and wss tracked as it made its way across NE, through IA, and into IL.
nprillinois.org/illinois/2022-…s-it-way-into-springfield
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Astro wrote:
And this is why you still animals in areas where they are "considered extinct".
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On my last hike, I met a naturalist who works at a former uranium enriching site in SW Ohio. She and her team used trail cameras on the site to document animals that were claimed to not exist in Ohio.
Skepticism, meet proof.Trudgin' along the AT since 2003. Completed Sections: Springer Mountain to Clingmans Dome and Max Patch NC to Gorham NH
"The days I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations...those are pretty good days." Ray Wylie Hubbard -
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I have seen live ones twice in Maine. But both times I was in a vehicle and not enough tme to get a picture.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General
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