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Dutchman
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 Posted - 08/08/2004 : 7:54:13 PM
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Just as we were getting ready to eat this evening, I noticed this visitor in the backyard. He had somehow gotten our birdfeeder down (I have it suspended from a high tree limb on a pulley.) He was a big brute and sported two ear tags-indicating his previous capture. Sorry that the pictures are a bit fuzzy. I took them throught the windows. He was only 15 feet off the back of the house, and I was not about to step out the back door for a clearer picture.
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Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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anbhurst
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USA
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Posted - 08/08/2004 : 8:06:51 PM
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Bruce,
The real question is, What do you give a black bear? The answer is, . .Anything he wants! Those are great pictures. If it doesn't look like a Teddy Bear, don't go outside!
Allen
Modelling the East in the West!
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Just as we were getting ready to eat this evening, I noticed this visitor in the backyard. . .
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MikeC
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USA
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Posted - 08/08/2004 : 8:34:30 PM
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Well, these beat ANY wildlife photos I could post! One of Missouri's symbols is the brown bear, but I have never seen one or ever heard of anyone who has actually seen one in the wild. And here we have a real, live, breathing black bear in New Jersey! [:-bigeyes]
Bruce, the best way to handle a large black bear like that is to take one of your photos out and ask him to autograph it. 
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm a busy man. I have a railroad to run.
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MikeC
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 08/09/2004 : 3:52:15 PM
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So, Bruce, where's the followup? What did the bear do when he ran out of sunflower seed?
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Bbags
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 08/09/2004 : 5:03:27 PM
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Bruce,
Great pictures.
Here I went all the way to Alaska to see some wildlife and the only black bear I saw was in a wildlife preserve with an electrified fence between me and the bear.
If I had known that New Jersey was a hotbed for wildlife I could have made the trip much much shorter in distance. |
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Dutchman
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Posted - 08/09/2004 : 5:16:38 PM
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Originally posted by MikeC
So, Bruce, where's the followup? What did the bear do when he ran out of sunflower seed?
He was not a particularly polite dinner guest. He ate my suet, my bird seed, then ambled off to the next house on his "must visit" list with nary a 'thank you'.
John, Mike, Allen & all: Yes, Northern NJ has quite a Black Bear population. Then again, it has quite a human population as well. Therefore, the two populations are always bumping into one another.[:-boggled]
We have seen bear on our property every year for the past five or six. This is by far the biggest, and he was nice to pose for some great pictures. |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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MikeC
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Posted - 08/09/2004 : 6:35:54 PM
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I'll bet he didn't offer to autograph the photos afterward, though...
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jimdad1
Engine Wiper
Canada
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Posted - 08/11/2004 : 12:09:00 AM
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Hi guys.
I'm not sure if this really qualifies as a "wildlife" pic or not. It's a real "grab" shot I took today just after clearing Canada customs on my way home from work. I sure would have liked to have heard the conversation between the driver and the customs officer on this one!
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Hangem Harry
Crew Chief
USA
793 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2004 : 07:19:06 AM
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I'm sure he gave the customs officer alot of "bull"
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MikeC
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Posted - 08/11/2004 : 09:32:47 AM
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm a busy man. I have a railroad to run.
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ETinBH
Fireman
USA
4241 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2004 : 3:33:34 PM
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This hardly follows a cow in the turtle-back, but I had a piece of sugar cane and my gardener noticed it and told me to put it in the dirt and it would grow. HA!, I said.
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Tyson Rayles
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Posted - 08/13/2004 : 08:20:12 AM
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Opened the door this morning and this came in, A broken n-scale rapido coupler to the person that knows what kind it is! [:-magnify][:-jumprefect]
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Dutchman
Administrator
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Posted - 08/13/2004 : 09:19:57 AM
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Tyson,
I am certainly not a snake expert, but in my desire to obtain the prize, I would suggest that it is a Milk Snake. |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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Tyson Rayles
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Posted - 08/13/2004 : 10:15:03 AM
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Wuth such a valuable prize at stake, I understand your willingness to take a chance! [:-bouncy] But nope! [:-cry] Nice try though.
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anbhurst
Moderator
USA
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Posted - 08/13/2004 : 1:50:19 PM
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Tyson,
Looks like some type of a Kingsnake, definitely not a Coral snake or else you wouldn't be a holdin' it.
Allen
We have a few of our own here in the West!
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Allen
Modeling the East in the West on the Northeastern Pacific RIM, Oregon, that is! |
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A Little Wildlife
