Unusual wildlife seen while skiing?
J999w
trees. As I looked up at the cloudless sky, to my side I heard the flapping of
some big wings from the top of the trees. First thoughts were of a hawk ...
no, this is too big ... Eagle ?? nope, long neck. (?) ... Wild turkey ?? ...
then as it gained speed, I could tell it was a Canadian Goose.
Who ever heard of a Canadian Goose perched in a pine tree ???
Been seeing quite a few wild turkeys lately as well. Unusual for around here.
Most wild turkeys around here are normally riding around on motorcycles in
February. :^]
jw
Milwaukee
Syn
Weird yes,but thats how it is. :)
So a flock of Canada Geese, or a single Canada Geese, boththe same. :)
-ap
canadian, eh.
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Runxoverruny
I saw the film on tv of a deer trying to hoof a guy to death. So now I attempt
to scare them off the trail before I get to near to them.
Slope
W Scott Elliot
So does Peterson's Field Guide.
Canadian Goose is another thing altogether. That's when a Canadian comes up
behind you an pokes you in the but. Most Canadian adolescents grow out of
this behavior in their mid to late teens.
Another Canadian, eh.
Scott Elliot
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Benjamin Kaufman
can also herringbone :-).
Ben
Jeff Kalember
Last march I was skiing along and there he was... sunny day... 35 deg. But
that HOT march sun.
He had crawled up and out of his hole and was getting a tan about 15 feet
off the trail.
Funny
JK
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Ted Linnell
Here in Australia we regularly see wombats when out skiing.
More likely to see these when skiing in winter than bushwalking in
summer as they are mostly nocturnal but during the winter they come
out during the day when it's not so cold.
Have fun,
Ted.
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W Scott Elliot
out on the local ski trails. There were not to many people around, but I
came across three deer bedded down, just off to the side of the trail. They
just watched me go by, as if they were too tired to get up. I had to
chuckle to myself because it looked like they had been up all night pulling
a sleigh around the world.
Scott Elliot
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MK
swooped across my path on the edge of the meadow and made a curve then flew back
to the woods! It was a joyful experience!
Matt A. Locker
National competition when it was held at the Mt. Mansfield Nordic Center. A
few of the competitors were a little upset at losing time because the moose
was straddling the course.
Dave Jackson
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Bob Larson
If that's the same film clip that I'm thinking of, the guy actually
doused
himself with deer musk, or whatever it is that sets the deer off,
in order to get close enough to frollick and catch the fun on video.
The guy was almost killed, and goes down in the Darwinian annals with
honorable mention.
The deer I see out on the trails have probably seen a thousand skiers
go by and seem to be a little blasai about it. I usually just
glide up slowly and wait for them to turn tail.
My favorite wildlife experience on skis is with the coyote
that has been hanging out at Terrace Oaks this winter. Three
times now he has dashed across my path as I was gliding
fast down gradual slopes. Always several yards
off, as if to say "Hey bud, this is what speed really looks like".
Seems to be a little game for him/her. -Bob
BruceFreeburger
I was with a group at Stokely Creek in Soo Ontario when we saw a fox. The
big guy walked toward us and circled the group, then went about 30 yards back
into the woods and then sat down to watch us leave. I found out later he is
used to hand outs.
I have seen a weasel at Stokely Creek. Moose and wolf tracks, neither face
to face.
I did pass a Bald Eagle eating some road kill while driving to Boyne
Mountain from Petoskey Michigan. Looked at it eye to eye. Deer are very common
where my parents live. See them all the time hiking. Walk right up to them.
Most unusual was, I swear, a big female mosquito. While skiing.
No wombats in Michigan, but it's rare to see a possum in daylight. We had
one get on the ski trail in front of us. Afraid it may have rabies, we stayed
back and didn't pass it. The possum would stop every 3 meters and look back
over it's shoulders at us. We probably had to follow it for 50 meters before it
got to an intersection and made a turn. Otherwise, it would have been a long
slow day...
Cheers,
Bruce
p.s. doesn't some ski area in Michigan have a Possum Trail?
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John Craychee
to eat and along comes this possum strolling up the edge of the river. Dave
says "want to see him play possum?". Sure! So Dave goes over and kid of
pushes him down from behind a few times. Sure enough, the possum gets all
stiff and just lies there. The best part was the way he screwed his face
all up into a grimace, tongue sticking out and everything. It was really
funny--what an act!! After we left him alone for a while he got up &
continued his stroll up the river.
jim farrell
Minnesota's Lake Superior Shore. The weather had been really intense on the
drive up from the cities with driving snow at first coming horizontally from the
northwest and then wheeling about and coming from the southeast. That
afternoon, on the trail, the gale was still blowing through the pines which
allowed us to sneak up on a lone wolf standing in the middle of the ski trail.
First, I rounded the bend, and the wolf casually considered me (as meal?). Then
my wife came up, and he still stood his ground, 30 feet away, considering his
odds, perhaps? Finally, our foursome was complete, staring in wonder at this
beautiful beast. Calmly, he turned away and disappeared into the woods. Our
hearts were racing the rest of that trip, looking around every bend and peering
into the woods looking on one side for him and on the other for the rest of his
pack. We all felt so lucky to catch this wild animal in his natural
environment. (We've seen wolves in zoos, and they are wonderful, too --- it
just isn't the same feeling.)
Jim Farrell
MK
Yum!
Reading all those animal tales reminded me of a silly moment several years ago when
Tom and I were standing around on our skis at Auburn Ski Club (here in the Sierras),
and a tiny mole crawled onto his boot. So, we stood there - and looked at eachother
- and stood there - and quietly amusedly waited for the little guy to do something
anything. But, he was just kind of blindly nosing around and happily basking in the
sun on the tip of Tom's boot. So, Tom wiggled his toes and of course
ZZZZZZooooooooommmmmmmm! off he zipped into a little hole in the snow.
It was fun to remember that silly little thing...
MK
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Jay Wenner
: Who ever heard of a Canadian Goose perched in a pine tree ???
JW, I usually don't see wildlife while skiing, but I occasionally talk to
Elvis when racing. (He doesn't say much though.)
Jay Wenner
Michael Motek
skiing in Yellowstone when we came across two sets of tracks. The first,
a set of small tracks, viered left and right erratically. The other was a
series of holes several feet apart. Then there was a spot where they came
together and after that a series or larger tracks heading off....
Gary Jacobson
we nearly skied over a skunk. There were some branches and stuff on the
trail so the skink was camoflaged. I was fearful we might get sprayed we
were so close.
The animal skittered away into a drainage ravine next to the trail whre we
stood. There it walked up and back many times. We considered it could be
rabid.
About ten minutes later, after skiing off, we smelled the telltale skunk
scent.
So I almost skied over a skunk. A bit off topic: I have ridden over at least
two squirrels on my road bike, and last fall I came extremely close to
crashing into one on roller skis.
GJ
J999w
>two squirrels on my road bike, and last fall I came extremely close to
>crashing into one on roller skis.
>GJ
At Lapham Peak there is a maniac young red squirrel that waits at the side of
the trail comming down off of 'two tier'. Just as you approach him, he scampers
right over your ski tips and you swear you've clobbered him. Next day, there he
is again, waiting for you !
jw
Milwaukee
Jim Dieball and Georgene Voutila
came upon a friend, Byron, skiing it backwards. He's smarter than that, so I knew something was up. A muskrat had come
up out of the marsh and gotten on the trail. He probably was scared by the skiers and went along the trail away from the
marsh quite a distance. Byron had found him, and gotten him turned around, and was herding him back to the marsh. The
muskrat was down in one of the tracks, diagonalling like crazy, while Byron skated slowly, just behind.
If that 'rat is going to do much more skiing, he really should get some skating skis: maybe some 18 cm or 20 cm ones;
and some good stiff poles.
Jim Dieball
levi
1) Lebanon Hills Park (Eagan, MN) - I rounded a corner just in time to
see an eagle swoop down and carry off a small rabbit, who had apparently
been foolish to come out of the woods and cross the trail.
2) Yellowstone National Park - We were skiing along, bemoaning a bison who
had left large, crater-like holes in the trail, sinking in almost to it's
belly as it worked it way through the several foot snow depth. The tracks
wandered off as the river began to coincide with the trail. Eventually,
we found the bison clambering out of the river at a bridge that we were
obliged to cross. For several minutes, we waited carefully as the
panting, apparently upset beast eyed us across the bridge, a matter of 15
feet or so. Eventually, it moved off and we were able to continue.
3) Again, Yellowstone, I spent a day skiing alone and at my farthest point
out, heard two packs of coyotes calling back and forth. Of course, you
know that coyotes are not normally threats to humans, but it raised the
hairs on my neck to think about being alone and basically unarmed with
packs of hungry predators in the general vicinity.
MK
that otherwise would have been long lost in the recesses of my memory! About 12
years ago, a chipmunk ran into my foot and then bounced off + zoomed back into the
woods. My friend who was with me commemorated the occastion later on: when starting
a kayak-bike-n-run race I found a little stuffed squirrel toy taped to the deck of
my kayak.
THEN there's the time a white little poodle blasted out from the edge of our
peripheral vision and bounced his little furry body off the side of the tandem
bicycle we were riding!!!! Boiiing & back into the garage he had sprung out of. No,
it wasn't an on-ski animal sighting, but it was so weird and wacky that I had to
mention it!!!
Just Magnet for Small Furry Creatures, I guess...
MK
MK
> 2) Yellowstone National Park - We were skiing along, bemoaning a bison who
> had left large, crater-like holes in the trail, sinking in almost to it's
> belly as it worked it way through the several foot snow depth. The tracks
> wandered off as the river began to coincide with the trail. Eventually,
> we found the bison clambering out of the river at a bridge that we were
> obliged to cross. For several minutes, we waited carefully as the
> panting, apparently upset beast eyed us across the bridge, a matter of 15
> feet or so. Eventually, it moved off and we were able to continue.
Yes! That happened to us too!!! We were skiing on the trials around Old
Faithful through, and the beasts had right away to any trail they wanted.
We also stumbled upon a bison when skiing on the cat track that goes to the
Old Faithful Lodge... just decided to look over the side of the road and found
ourselves face to face with that big dark raggedy hair furball covered with
ice and snow clumps. Fun stuff to remember!
(So, I have been a magnet for *large* furry animals, I guess...)
MK
P.S. ...really enjoyed somebody else's recollection of the two sets of tracks
that converged in the snow, with just the larger ones looking as if they had
won out in the evolutionary scheme of things ;-)
Endlessseason
ermine(sp?)(DV,Snowbird,Alta), beaver(Snowbird), coyote(Big Sky),
deer(everywhere), 2 bald eagles(Thompson's Pass, Alaska), and about a 60
pound Lynx last week in the middle of "World Cup Way" run at Panorama, B.C.
I had to swerve to not hit it. It freaked me out.
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