It's flipped because you posted it from your phone. Don't know why but see a lot of that on another forum.

Deer ravaged my veg garden last night. Ate the tops off the tomato plants and ate ALL of my lettuces. DAMMIT! :mad:

On the bright side they're turning your veggies into venison. :yum:

The deer population this year has really exploded - at least in my neck of the woods. Over the last few months, I've counted four different mama deer with two babies each, and two bucks wandering around my property. If I wanted to, I could bag one or three from my front or back porch just about any day.

Of course, deer hunting season doesn't start here until October 13 . . . I'm just sayin'. :rolleyes:

That's OK, they'll be fatter by then. ;)

A deer visited my parents' place in DC a couple of weeks back. They're at least 7 blocks from the nearest place deer could live (ie a wooded park of reasonable size).

I should get a picture of our tree in the back yard. The branches hang all the way down to the ground, but were stripped bare one day last week from the ground up to about 4-5 feet by a deer. It's pretty remarkable.

The deer didn't touch my blueberry plants, thankfully.

Deer ate some of my ghost pepper plant while I was away...

We think of a wooded park as habitat for them but as long as they can find something to eat/drink and don't feel they are threatened, they can live anywhere.

It's a city; everything that isn't wooded park is street and lawn. They can wander it, especially at night, but they need to be able to go somewhere when the people come back out.

True, but they can cover a lot of ground in a short time. Also if the milkman or someone out early spots them, not likely to freak out like if was a bear or coyote or something bitey.
Maybe the deer are renting an apartment close by. :haha:

I almost hit a deer in my neighborhood yesterday. I wasn't even going fast. Maybe 25? I saw it out of the corner of my eye running along side me and veering toward of me. I knew there was no car behind me so I stepped on the brake, and it veered harder at me, so I stepped harder. The fucking thing finally got me to panic brake by cutting directly in front of me just in front of my bumper.

I saw a nopedeer the other evening. I saw her running toward the road, when she got into the outside edge of my headlights, she said "Nope.", and made the laziest u-turn back into the field, without changing her gait whatsoever.

He is up by the wall next to the curve in the hose.

Man. I hate when this happens.

Oregon woman finds mountain lion napping in her home: 'This is wild'

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I saw this the other day. Did you see the part where she did a Vulcan mind meld with it to get it to leave?

That cat looks comfy. There's a certain Harry S. Miller folk song that comes to mind.

um eeeeeek

I think this cat was someone's pet they turned out in the wild. It saw the door open and went in like any house cat would. Being the cat didn't freak out upon seeing the human tells me it was probably rescued until it could be turned out.

OK. I fee dumb that I never realized this before, but when you are outside at night and are wearing a fairly strong headlamp, those glittering dew drops you see here and there in large numbers on the grass are actually spider's eyes looking back at you. You'll see, when you get closer. And they are everywhere.

If you change your headlamp to red, they glow red.

I have no experience with the phenomenon you're describing, but how do you know it's not actual moisture/dew drops?

Because when you walk up to one, it's a spider. I tried to say that in my post but wasn't terribly clear.

It is a ground spiders web which catches fleas or mosquitoes or whatever. Before morning they collect their web to recycle for the next night. That is dew shining back at you as the spider is so small its doubtful you could see the reflection of its eyes.

That article was so informative. Thanks!

See, I thought it was dew, but upon closer examination it was the spiders' eyes. Dew hadn't formed yet, and the reflection was greenish when the headlamp was in white light mode, and red in red mode. These were the kind of spiders that just crawl around and don't have webs. I always called the bigger ones wolf spiders.

This page talks about it too, although they are in Belize and I was in Virginia.

I have never seen their eyes never paid attention to it. My night visitor built a web from the porch rail to the porch swing. It only took a couple nights for it to learn about the cats walking on the rail for it to adjust its web. Someone visiting at night dispatched him/her. I don't bother the wildlife if it doesn't bother me and I was upset that they killed my spider.

I can back Glatt up here. Seen it many times. What we call 'field spiders/wolf spiders' (brown, can get fairly big, black stripe down each leg) you can pick 'em out at night with a flashlight from a fair distance away by their reflecting eyes.

In the hottest part of summer we got little 'worms' (?) that come out and glow on their own. Well out in the country, away from light pollution, in short grass, ya can see whole fields of them sometimes.

We don't have any such worms over here, because of evolution. The Smokies divide KY and NC and the only worms that glow are down by the nuclear plant in Southport.

Then you got all those critters we don't have. Werewolves, we don't have any of them. Those vampires can stay on your side of the mountains too. No bears over here either. I never saw one so there must not be any.

Glowing worms?! Pics or it never happened.

I've seen glowing worms too. In New Zealand. Very cool.

Uh, don't you guys got, like, some of the biggest black bears in America?:eyebrow:

I mean, I know they're not as big as our werewolves, but...

I think just the eyes or antennae of those worms glow.

Generally the abdomen. Eyes never glow* (they do reflect, though), it would prevent them from being able to see.


There are many species called glowworms, but the most common glowing thing on the ground in the US is probably a female firefly. They hang out on the ground, blinking, while the males are blinking in the air.


* technically, warm-blooded eyes glow infrared, but are also blind to it.

There must be high ratio of male fireflies compared to the females. If I saw any glowing flys on the ground I probably thought I was tripping.

What I'm talking about aren't fireflies.

It is a glow, though, not a reflection.

Could be these. Larvae and females glow.


Glow image on this site.

That would creep me right the fuck out! :eek:

You wouldn't want to live next to these marmots...

Nice marmot.[/The Dude]

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London is a place I avoid if at all possible. It's crowded, noisy, threatening and generally disagreeable.
However, when considering what to be on my guard for, I have never included itinerant boa-constrictors in my assessment.

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EEK!!!

Eating a dead pigeon that it found dead or it made dead? :unsure:

Other reports suggest that the pigeon had already brought down the curtain and joined the choir invisible before it was offered to the snake by a passer by.

Beautiful plumage, though. ;)

Class. Pure class! [emoji211]


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Too true.

Good lord!!

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico...ack/1366347597

Bear attacks this guy, bites down on his leg. He shoots the bear dead but the bear's jaw is locked on the guy's leg, and can't be pried open.

So they cut the bear's head off and that allowed them to manoeuver the bear's jaw off the guy. 200 stitches and a week in hospital but the dude survives.

Obviously the bear got lockjaw from the bullet. :blush:

How's the bear doing?

I never could understand Irish. Its all French to me.

Not too good...

Standoff...

Never, ever give up.

The Perils of <strike>Live</strike> Fresh Food, chapter six, Sometimes the Food Eats You.

I think this was posted before but as the Mad Men say, New and Improved!
You're gonna need a bigger boat.

I think the safest boat in that situation would be a Prairie Schooner.

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And Megalodons got eaten by Livyatans...

Re: Megalodon
 

Captain's Log: Saw a megalodon today. Said "Nope." Decided to go overland.

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When nobody's looking...