Mrs. That Dan Guy has a particular soft spot for animals, and whenever I'm with her, the entire forest seems to pop out to say hello!
The other day, we were driving along, and turned into a subdivision with tall grass on the boulevard. What do we spot? A friggin' falcon, or hawk - who knows these things unless you're an ornithologist, or whatever bird professionals are called?? We got to snap a few pictures (pretty crappy from the i-Phone 3GS, just sayin'...) before the lineup of traffic behind us got rather surly.
Last night, driving her home from her brutal shift ending at 1:45 AM (don't ask), we spotted first a deer frozen beside the road (pretending to be frozen. He/she was definitely very alive and well), then a fox looking very disoriented on the road before scampering off into the shadows.
When we got onto our own road, she noticed a rabbit. But it turned out to be, as she proclaimed, a herd. We counted at least 10, but there could have been more. We either disturbed a gang turf war, or a local union rally. Neither of us have ever seen so many rabbits congregating in one place at the same time before.
Dr. Doolittle....
Chow for now!!
6 comments:
So very, very cool! It has become almost a daily occurence! And how about the 2 very, very slow muskrats crossing the road in the dead of the night right before our street! Unbelievable. But this falcon, UNREAL! Beautiful, beautiful bird and I cant believe he didnt take off when we put our window down to take the picture! he was ony a few feet away! WOWEE!
Hey, looking at pics on the Web, I think this is a Red Tailed Hawk and is a young one!
We won't talk about the napping pigeon...
If he had a redhead, he'd be a woodpecker!
Yes, I have more on the "napping pigeon" front actually........highly disturbing, but wont share it here......sigh....
Hey, remember we used to have a resident neighborhood woodpecker? Where was that? So many animals!
Caw! Caw!
Riffington, our resident power pole woodpecker!!
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