Wildlife crossing the road

[ptourkin]

Approximately 40 bighorn very close to the road on the Silver State 508 route on Nevada 722 this weekend. By far the closest I've been and the largest number I've seen together. I guess after mating season ends, the serious skirmishes are over.

Also on that route, a wait for some type of long horn cattle being driven by 4 dogs and two cowboys on horse back, plus some pronghorn.

[jmoore]

Seen several wild hogs, coyotes and a flock of turkeys ran beside me along the road in Kansas a few years back. Prob 20 turkeys in that bunch. Cool

[Ralph]

While out on my normal bike ride today.....I passed by a beautiful deer ...maybe 10 feet away on the side of the road. He just stood there and watched me go by. A large healthy deer. Magnificent. I was afraid he was going to run in front of me to cross the road. See deer on a regular basis.

Saw a medium size bear on the side of the road last week. He just stood and watched me go by. Guess he figured out I wasn't a garbage can.

[seahuston]

I was just out in NH for the week and they are in the middle of a squirrel population boom. Every ride had at least one near miss with the things and the roads are covered in road kill. Pretty wild!

[paredown]

I locked it up coming down a hill in Hariman Park the other day--turkeys crossing in a group.

Most were across already, but the one that I was on a collision course did a jump back that would have made any of the old cartoonists proud. I swear his face was registering complete panic...

Week before it was a rather large (but dead) copperhead--and a big one--3+ feet. Looked like he'd been clipped trying to cross the road.

A couple of years ago it was a brown bear that came crashing out of the woods--I was going pretty slow uphill at the time, so I asked him what he was doing. Again, like a bad cartoon--he looked shocked, about-faced and went crashing off into the woods...

[ptourkin]

The aforementioned bighorns. Phones aren't very good for this. This is about a third of the group

[azrider]

This time of year the diamondbacks are out in early morning trying to get last bit of heat from asphalt




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[gdw]

There's a mother bear with three cubs raiding the apple trees in our neighborhood. These pictures were taken a couple weeks ago when they were resting across the road from our house. I've run into them several times while walking the dog over the past week and make sure to keep a safe distance between us

[weisan]

Two foxes crossed in front of me.

One turtle stucked in the middle of the road.

[TonyG]

Originally Posted by weisan

Two foxes crossed in front of me.

Reminds me of having a coffee on Chestnut Street in San Francisco.

Lots and lots of foxes

[joosttx]

Here are a few from this summer in reverse order. Judging from my photos Marin County is a little top heavy on the trophic levels.

[Cicli]

Originally Posted by Luwabra

so much here. I live in rural BFE so theres plenty of critters to see. coyotes have run next to me, deer daily, skunks, badgers, coons, possums, I stopped one afternoon as a bald eagle perched on a telephone pole directly above me. we stared ea other down for a couple min... I thought well maybe he wants to go with me so I stuck my arm out for a perch... we stared at ea other another couple min and my dreams were crushed. he wanted nothing to do with me. beavers, turkeys, pheasants, the list is long. I ride gravel almost exclusively so im right in the middle of their environment.

Sounds exactly like mine.
We have some big Turkey Vultures too.

[Tandem Rider]

I was bombing a descent in the Shawnee National Forest, came around a curve and there was a herd of deer on the road. Swerve, swerve, swerve, whew, made it. Actually got hit by a deer in Iowa, about a mile from home, still not sure how I stayed up, Mrs TR still talks about my being shook up when I got home. I had a bruise from that one.

[wombatspeed]

Trying to keep up with pronghorn is fun on the prairie. Full on sprint by me, but they just leave me in the dust when they had enough. World's second fastest land animal.
Bald eagles, moose, bears. But I don't try to race them!

[Bruce K]

Peacock that lived at a local home/small farm wandered off and into the street. Nasty thing.

Florida Panther on Sanibel Island a few years ago was the coolest.

BK