MossRoad
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I gotta admit, there were times in my life I may have done the same. :laughing:
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I gotta admit, there were times in my life I may have done the same. :laughing:
MossRoad
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My wife and I were out for a walk and came upon a doe standing in the path. She wouldn't move. Each step we took closer, she stomped and snorted. Probably had a fawn nearby. Something told me to not press my luck, and we waited a while, then took another trail. Didn't want to end up like the people you see on the videos getting the heck kicked out of them by Bambi.
Steppenwolfe
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I found a Hawk when I was about 19; he wasn't full grown, probably just learning to fly. He was sitting on the side of a farm road and didn't move when I came up on him. I jumped off the tractor, walked straight up to him, and he still didn't move. So... me being young and dumb, I bent down to pick him up. He flipped onto his back and out came a set of talons that seemed like I was looking down the twin barrels of a shotgun. He sure didn't seem as scared of me as I was of him... I then looked up and mama hawk was circling in... lesson learned; little didn't mean easy.
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When I was maybe 6 or 8 I somehow wound up in a greased pig catching contest at the county fair. Not a pleasant memory. PETA would not have approved.
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You think???? :laughing:
dodge man
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A coworker and I were driving to a job and had an Eagle dive down in front of us going the same direction, it dropped down to windshield height. I yelled at my coworker to slow down, we were going to pass it or hit it, it was only about 30 feet in front of us. It grabbed a dead rabbit off the center line and flew off. That was pretty cool. I think I have read birds of prey have poor peripheral vision, it probably didn稚 see us.
About 30 years ago I was driving on a highway in the area of the first couple nests along Lake Erie. An eagle came from the side and dove down to cross perpendicular to my truck just above my hood, and cocked it's head to look look me in the eye as it passed in front of my windshield. I was going about 60mph. I glanced back toward the trees where it came from, figuring there was surely another eagle up there holding this eagle's beer while it tried that stunt! :laughing: But seriously, that was one of the first eagles I saw, and I will never forget that yellow eye staring at me as it zipped by.
