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  1. #126
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    Stupid me. I accidentally left a trash bag outside my door last night. Was planning on going out, then didnt and forgot to make my way to the dumpster, with the trash bag still outside my door.

    Wake up at 3am to a loud noise, a turd burgeler rambling through my beer cans. I opened up my door and no more than 6 inches from me was a 400 lb black bear..

    Luckily his ass was faced towards me and the door, so I immediately shut the door and locked it up.

    My closest bear encounter yet. Thankfully he didnt make much of a mess, so a 5 minute cleanup this morning..

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    Quote Originally Posted by nutmegchoi View Post
    Glad the bear lived.
    Another animal I've never seen in person before.
    When I was a kid, had a bear lean up against our car in Yellowstone and scratch the paint on the fender. This was back when they allowed feeding wildlife and the bears would routinely beg for food on the roadside. Somehow we felt that the glass in the car window was sufficient protection.

    Last trip to Yellowstone I did happen to get a peek at a bear, but he was about 1/4 mile out. A tiny brown speck.

    Had a much closer encounter with a wolf that crossed the road right in front of my car, but he was up the hill and out of sight before I could pull the trigger with my camera.

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    ^^^Heh, this happened to us in Banff (Jasper?) National Park when I was a kid. Brown bear slobbered all over the side windows on one side of the car. Mt little brother and I made sure no one tried to clean the slobber off the windows.

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    City deer. My new protector. Hangs outside my 8 foot luxury windows Click image for larger version. 

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    Big ass woodpecker pecking vinyl siding

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  5. #130
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    Not exactly exotic, but awfully cute:

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    Quote Originally Posted by aevergreene View Post
    Stupid me. I accidentally left a trash bag outside my door last night. Was planning on going out, then didnt and forgot to make my way to the dumpster, with the trash bag still outside my door.

    Wake up at 3am to a loud noise, a turd burgeler rambling through my beer cans. I opened up my door and no more than 6 inches from me was a 400 lb black bear..

    Luckily his ass was faced towards me and the door, so I immediately shut the door and locked it up.

    My closest bear encounter yet. Thankfully he didnt make much of a mess, so a 5 minute cleanup this morning..
    You just missed your best chance to kick a bear's ass.

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    I was thinking the same thing.

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    Damn toad outside my window singing like its life depended on it. It's 6C, mid Oct and 51.5 latitude N. WTF? Last belt out before hibernation, or a Samhain omen come a bit early? 2016 been a weird year.

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    I'll give you toads. Or frogs. (Hyla versicolor) Gray tree frog.

    That is the push button on a paddle. Tiny little fellow. Thought he was a pebble.
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    other than that, just birds.
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    I like boyds too
    Here's an eagle that we would see all the time this summer on the teton village rd.
    We would yell 'merica! every time we passed it
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    ^^^ That last bird Rusty posted would've loved to make "friends" with the frog.

    Caught a tree frog like that hopping around the garage in Truckee on Friday evening. My 2 YOs were pretty stoked to check it out before I placed him outside.
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    Here are some from the last year:

    Old Faithful bison
    Main Salmon rams
    Hells Canyon sturgeon
    Middle Fork spider eating a salamander
    Middle Fork bald eagle
    Boise cemetery does
    Ribs off a wild boar I stuck with an arrow
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    Is that a sturgeon?
    I thought it was a dolphin!
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    9.5 footer. Biggest I've seen in person down there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conundrum View Post
    Here are some from the last year:

    Ribs off a wild boar I stuck with an arrow
    Not much "life" left in that "wild" but it sure looks good


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  17. #142
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    here's a couple fresh ones

    this is a fun one- all the little black fur balls in the trees are bears eatin' pinenuts and stuff
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    this one's for nutmegchoi
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    this was a moose lurking outside my office
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    Wildlife

    Quote Originally Posted by b-bear View Post
    here's a couple fresh ones

    this is a fun one- all the little black fur balls in the trees are bears eatin' pinenuts and stuff
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    this one's for nutmegchoi
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    this was a moose lurking outside my office
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    Why, thank you!
    Two of my favorites!!
    Tetons and moose.
    You made my evening!

  19. #144
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    some boyds in the backyard
    lots of duck, geese and swans
    Had a ton of snow here so it's been hard on the animals. we've had a moose frequently in the yard too (including this eve)
    we have a couple folks in the neighborhood that let their dogs roam, but they are benevolent and seems like all the locals have been giving them a nice wide bert


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    Quote Originally Posted by b-bear View Post
    some boyds in the backyard
    lots of duck, geese and swans
    Had a ton of snow here so it's been hard on the animals. we've had a moose frequently in the yard too (including this eve)
    we have a couple folks in the neighborhood that let their dogs roam, but they are benevolent and seems like all the locals have been giving them a nice wide bert


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    Nice backyard

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    (Jaws theme intensifies)

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    so yesterday morning I was in the living rm and saw a bunch of birds fly by close to the window then -BAM- one hits the window.
    So I ran over to the window to look out and see if ok and it was this little owl!

    I think some magpies were harassing it when it hit the window but it settled to a nice little sheltered spot by my porch so it could recoup
    was worried sick about it for about 20 mins then it flew up to a branch then flew away 5 mins after than

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    Coulda taste like chicken

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    if it would have died there I probably would have felt compelled to at least eat it- yea
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    makes me think about when I was a kid and dissecting the little owl pods of skeletons that they ate
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