Happenings

It's been a busy past week. First I was out in the woods, when I saw a large bird sitting on a lower limb. It was hunched over looking at something on the ground with it's back towards me. When I lifted my camera,the whir of the autofocus caused it to turn and look directly at me. I couldn't believe my eyes, staring back was a Great Gray Owl. They don't live here. At least they aren't supposed to, but here was one. Those yellow eyes, and that face, it was incredible.

So I spent a lot of time trying to see it again. I haven't and in a way, I'm happy with that. Sometimes you just need to know they are around.

I have been running into a lot of moose too. Today, I came across a cow and twins.

Moose

It's that time of the year when a moose's interest turns to love. Yesterday I was walking on the Appalachian Trail with a friend when up ahead I saw a dark form in the woods. "Moose!" I grabbed my camera and crept ahead.

It's dangerous out in the woods now,and I'm not kidding. Bull Moose want some loving and they really don't have much to fear, and the hormones coursing through there system makes them not too afraid. They have been know to charge cars,trains hikers,cows, just about anything that they feel is a threat to their territory or their chances of scoring. I had a friend get treed by a moose a while ago. He spent a good half hour in that tree.

Alces alces