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Kaili
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
Okay, so not a dog, not a cat, not a horse, not a webcam.....hmmm....new folder!

My aunt sent this email to me that I thought was pretty cool- I know I've emailed it to a few people here but why not just post it for all, right?

(Text of the email):
This is from somebody's friend who lives in Windham, Maine!

Newborn Moose

I have never seen a newborn moose. This one was not even a half a mile from our house. The mother picked a small quiet neighborhood and had her baby in the front yard at 5:30 am. We were out bike riding when we came upon the pair. The lady across the street from this house told us she saw it being born. We saw them at 5:30 pm. So the little one was 12 hours old. What an awesome place we live in to see such a site!

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Kaili
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
Here's the rest....

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Kaili
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
Then my aunt in northern Wisconsin sent me this picture about a week ago- a bear in her backyard.



Kaili
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
My mom (also in northern Wisconsin) has bear in her yard too...These are from June.

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Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Kaili, those moose pictures are amazing, but when I got that forward, it said it happened in Alaska. Hmmmmmm.... Since I live close to Windham, I think I might have heard about it.

The bear in the backyard...yikes!

Kaili
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
Really? I thought maybe my aunt knew the people who took the picture. Huh. Well, wherever it was- I think they're neat pictures. :-)

Kaili
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
Are there not a lot of black bears in Maine? I thought they were pretty abundant there too, or no?

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Last night the over-the-fence backyard neighbor's chihuahua had a noisy todo with what I expect was a raccoon/s. I'll have to call her to see how Little Guy is. I thought at first he got killed because she kept calling for him. I finally heard her hubby say here he is. Whew!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Maine is home to the largest black bear population in the eastern United States and has one of the largest populations in North America (Oregon and Washington have similar black bear populations). Black bears can be found in all but the southeastern portion of Maine. *Source* I'm in southwestern Maine and, believe me, we don't hear that much about black bears. I do know someone who had to remove her birdfeeders, but that was a long time ago now. I know this, I would be scared to death to find a black bear in my tree. Great pictures! Your aunt had great presence of mind to grab the camera!

Kaili
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 9:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaili a private message Print Post    
They're so cute- I love seeing black bears! From the window of course...but I love seeing them. They're pretty rare where I live (too far south), but an hour or so north you see signs of them. We have scratch marks on our cabin and I've seen one crossing the road on the way home from there. Way north there are tons though. The DNR estimates about 12,000 in the state total.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
really cool moose pics kaili!

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 9:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Very cool moose pictures! Wow ... he was born in someone's front yard ... amazing!!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*Youtube clip of moose* says that it was born on the front lawn of a home in Center Ossipee, New Hampshire. LOL!

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 2:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
deer date

DH is feeding the deer again and this guy brought his date!

Last night they jumped the fence and cleaned up the apples, even the ones I had sitting on the patio table. I said they had a party last nite and DH said he was glad they cleaned up their empty bottles.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 3:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Aren't deer beautiful!

Here last night the wrecking crew (read mama raccoon and her 4 babies)did a number on everything they could get their hands on. Which reminds me I need to go out and round up all the cat bedding the 'coons drug all over the yard.

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
rascalThis was last week in my yard. What is funny is that is my little racoon statue at the bottom of the tree!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Aren't they just the cutest heart stealers? When a mama brings her just-barely-out-of-the-nest babies by, I completely melt. I love the way they chatter at each other. Thanks for posting the sweet pix, SG.

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 2:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
Right now 20 miles out of Fairbanks a wolf pack has moved in and is killing/eating dogs. Tonight on the news was a story of another dog (I think that makes 5 in the last week). I just gotta ask ~ why on earth would you let your dog out unattended knowing there was a wolf pack in your area eating dogs? One guy they interviewed said the authorities cannot set traps for the wolves because of the chance you could trap and kill someone's dog. Well ... uh ... there is a leash law and dogs are absolutely required to be tied or leashed. So, if you have your dog leashed like its supposed to be you can control whether it goes where the traps are. Right? If you tie your dog out in your yard you are just setting out some wolf bait. The last dog was killed something like 20 feet from its owner's house. Why wasn't that guy out there with his dog? Lazy? Didn't really like that dog? I dunno And, no one really seems to want to do anything about the wolves. One girl was laughing about it on the news. She said they only mess with her garbage and aren't hurting anything. I'm really scared that someone's kid is going to be killed before they take this situation seriously. A lone wolf is easily dealt with but a pack is big bad news.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
To a predator species the world is just one giant grocery store. It is never the wild animal's fault at what gets killed for its food; in its mind food is food...furred, feathered, scaled or clothed.

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 2:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
We have coyotes here that catch the dogs and cats, and there is a leash law here but you will still hear about someone not staying with their dog while they are outside. Right now the sound of generators has probably scared all the wildlife away...haven't even seen our doe all week.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Monday, December 31, 2007 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Animal Planet is having some great shows today! I have watched growing up polar bear, and now growing up black leopard. Got to see a couple of hours on Tai Shan growing up and another panda special.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 31, 2007 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
When I lived in Modjeska Canyon, the coyotes would sing just across the creek nightly (and the creek ran at the foot of the property we were on, so it was CLOSE.. and it was dry much of the year, so there was not a thing to deter them from heading over and jumping the fence.

Thus, we had not just six foot fencing, but top and bottom rails and tops on the outside dog runs.. tho most of the dogs slept inside.

And of course there could be rattlesnakes too. I remember the day I let six labrador girls out in front and of course I was watching them, following them with the pooper scooper, and I heard rattling and saw a rattler! Luckily it was moving away but Grace had almost caught up with it.. I used voice commands to rush them all back inside and YAY, they were well trained, or heard the level of "NOW" in my voice!

Anyway, since the snake headed next door, where they not only had a dog they let run loose (another story, dangerous dog) but a toddler, we informed them, only to be sneered at and told that it wasn't dry enough at that time for the rattlers to come close to houses. Uh huh. A couple of days later a very embarrassed neighbor killed a six foot rattler in his yard and at least had the grace to apologize.

Anyway, you certainly do have to watch out for pets, even 60lb dogs, or larger!

We never had a mountain lion sighting in our yard but we always knew they were a possibility.

And that was long ago.. I'm sure, with all the additional housing and people out there, there are more encounters.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Sea...I've seen mountain lions here in Trabuco. In fact, one morning I woke up and it seemed unnaturally quiet and I realized none of my chickens were clucking. I walked up to the coop to see that they were all dead...killed by a mountain lion. The animal folks came out and took casts of the footprints of the mountain lion and told me that the cats will kill for kill's sake, not necessarily for food's sake.

And we've had many many rattlesnakes. Once came home to find a huge one on my porch. Yes, we must be very careful out here. The baby rattlers are the most dangerous, I've been told, as they don't measure their venom to the size of their victim and just let it all loose, and are harder to see.

Bobcats are also en masse out here.

After the wildfires, we've got much more wildlife now, as they search for new feeding areas.

It IS interesting living out here (in the "boonies) and seeing/hearing all these crazy critters.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 2:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I would imagine you would have more wildlife than we did.. I mean, it was around back then, but they had more room to roam and were less likely to have to mingle with people. And I did love it anyway, even the crazy tarantulas and the screaming peacocks. Owls suddenly flying toward the car at night.

Oh yes the baby rattlers are bad, they just strike out.

Quails and we once had a pheasant arrive in our front yard.

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Monday, March 31, 2008 - 7:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
In my backyard: