My uncle’d rented Toyota after a moose encounter. He was pretty bruised and banged up too.
dave
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There's a 1967 XLR over in Blue Hill Maine.
Officially there have not been mountain lions (cougars, panthers) in Maine in about a century. There have been many suggestive sightings and pictures and carcass-marks, but no confirmation. This despite that we fly-over large swaths to count moose (just lost a plane that way). And no wolves. Both are threatened when there are men with livestock or who feed their family with deer.
We have coyotes, here in outer suburbia, many nights a year. It would be rare for coyotes to bring down a grown deer, but you know momma's gonna stomp and snort to protect the kids.
Deer are down here since the 1940s because they do not thrive in deep woods or on open farmland. In the period when farms were being abandoned we were filthy with deer and Maine deer hunting was a thing. It still is, but they are not like they were.
He's dang lucky to be alive!! As you see, the belly of a moose is just above hood level.
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I live in the English lake district.
The only places we tend to see deer is in the woods.
They are too nervous to venture into villages or towns.
I have come across them on walks and they just run off.
I once walked past a tree and was shocked to find a sleeping Fox.
I stamped my foot and he woke up and ran off.
In the country side I have got close to hitting deer.
One jumped over a wall right in front of my car.
I nearly hit another on my motorbike in the night time as it ran across the road.
I dread to think what would have happened had I hit it.
The only places we tend to see deer is in the woods.
They are too nervous to venture into villages or towns.
I have come across them on walks and they just run off.
I once walked past a tree and was shocked to find a sleeping Fox.
I stamped my foot and he woke up and ran off.
In the country side I have got close to hitting deer.
One jumped over a wall right in front of my car.
I nearly hit another on my motorbike in the night time as it ran across the road.
I dread to think what would have happened had I hit it.
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A sculptor friend was commissioned by a museum to do the dinosaur which was common in New Jersey, life-size.
I'm looking at this thing and realized-- it's a deer! Pure herbivore. About the body-bulk of a large deer. Legs and head put on different, tail like no deer ever, and plants were different species then. But I could see these things browsing on shrubbery. Filling the same large niche in the ecology of the time. And if there were roads, they would cross without looking, dumb as a deer.
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When I lived in the south of UK there used to be quite a lot of deer.
I once went over a dead one in the road and it caused a fuel leak.
It was on a fast road and the rush hour traffic just hit the body many times until it was flat.
I have moved to an area where there is too much shooting for deer.
The pheasants here are even more stupid but they only roam in the day time. If you see them by the side of the road you have to look carefully. They usually stick there heads out just before they jump in front of your car. Good brakes and a loud horn usually do the job.
I once went over a dead one in the road and it caused a fuel leak.
It was on a fast road and the rush hour traffic just hit the body many times until it was flat.
I have moved to an area where there is too much shooting for deer.
The pheasants here are even more stupid but they only roam in the day time. If you see them by the side of the road you have to look carefully. They usually stick there heads out just before they jump in front of your car. Good brakes and a loud horn usually do the job.
A lot of deer - A lot of Foxes (north of the Wash DC area).
They both get bolder and closer to the house. The fox out back stands there and barks at me, maybe he wants me to feed him??
A good reason not to feed wildlife.
This pic was last year...this year we are seeing a lot of fawns.
*the shadow is the house roof line
They both get bolder and closer to the house. The fox out back stands there and barks at me, maybe he wants me to feed him??
A good reason not to feed wildlife.
This pic was last year...this year we are seeing a lot of fawns.
*the shadow is the house roof line
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Haha that's the UK for you...
I live in the heart of England, in the middle of a city, and I see Muntjac quite often, foraging around bins.
I dont see them in forests, they have much better camouflage and hearing than I!
Migrating Canadian Geese have become permanent residences of TN. They favor ponds over rivers and streams.
Rabbits, Racoons, Possum, Deer, they all visit me well inside the city limit.
Brown Bear have been seen in downtown Johnson City and other neighboring cities on occasion.
As far as shooting deer off the back porch goes, No in the city (no discharging of firearms within city limits), yes in the county. As long as you do not shoot across a public road, or within 100' of a house without permission of the owner.
Rabbits, Racoons, Possum, Deer, they all visit me well inside the city limit.
Brown Bear have been seen in downtown Johnson City and other neighboring cities on occasion.
As far as shooting deer off the back porch goes, No in the city (no discharging of firearms within city limits), yes in the county. As long as you do not shoot across a public road, or within 100' of a house without permission of the owner.
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