Winter Wildlife

[pathfinder]

I found this little fella in the snow today trying to eat some lunch....
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/13405180-L.jpg

These two girls seem to belong here also...

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/13234394-L.jpg

[ginger_55]

I found this little fella in the snow today tring to eat some lunch....
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/13405180-S.jpg

These two girls seem to belong here also...



The squirrel is good, but I love the deer.

ginger (my birds didn't turn out that good, will probably post something)

[fish]

As a motorcyclist, I love the squiddel. Worse comes to worse, it's a thump thump and I turn it into a stain on the asphalt. The forest rats, on the other hand, are death waiting to happen. Sure, they may look cute with their big ears and brown eyes, but if you hit one at 80mph on a bike, yer screwed.

So...nice squirrel, pathy.

[ginger_55]

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/13410704-L.jpg

This is the lens that has seemed so soft. I tried with that center focusing thing. Sat out in the cold two mornings, the sun was in the wrong direction. I checked his eye is focused.

You can tell it is winter in North Carolina. The leaves actually fall off of their trees.

I have some more on a couple of CF cards. My computer is complaining.

g

[pathfinder]

http://gingerSnap.smugmug.com/photos/13410704-S.jpg

This is the lens that has seemed so soft. I tried with that center focusing thing. Sat out in the cold two mornings, the sun was in the wrong direction. I checked his eye is focused.

You can tell it is winter in North Carolina. The leaves actually fall off of their trees.

I have some more on a couple of CF cards. My computer is complaining.

g
The center AF spot is working better for you I think Ginger. Nice cardinal.

[pathfinder]

As a motorcyclist, I love the squiddel. Worse comes to worse, it's a thump thump and I turn it into a stain on the asphalt. The forest rats, on the other hand, are death waiting to happen. Sure, they may look cute with their big ears and brown eyes, but if you hit one at 80mph on a bike, yer screwed.

So...nice squirrel, pathy.


Fish, I'll tell you a funny story about a squirrel that crossed the road in front of me on April 15, 2000. I highsided at 50mph after being hit by a dog that was pursuing the squirrel that I did see cross the road in front of me. I did not see the dog at all, until it impacted my front wheel. ATGATT saved my melon. And I have a helmet to prove it. Broke a finger in my left hand when the handlebars were ripped out of my grip, full left lock of the handlebars ( dog ran into me from the right at full tilt chasing the squirrel) and I was slammed into the pavement like a rag doll. I slid about 45 yards. The dog ended up on the left side of the road in a ditch and died.

After I decided I was going to live, (not sure for the first few moments) I righted the bike with my riding buddy and rode that puppy home about 45 miles.
The next morning I was solid blue-black from my navel to the bottom of my right foot - I estimate I lost about 2 units of blood into my right thigh - I knew I got real thirsty riding home that after noon. About as swollen as a femoral fracture gets.

Two weeks later the guy I was riding with got drilled by your friend the deer. He totaled his RT and got a ride in a big red ambulance. He fractured an ankle and was in crutches for about 6 weeks. He is an excellent rider and has ridden from Seattle to Prince Edward Island. This was not lack of rider skill - this was just rotten luck.

I have had cows, riderless horses, pigs, turkeys, antelope, buffalo, goats, dogs, and chickens cross the road in front of me - but it was a squirrel and its companion that knocked me down. I have NO illusions about the safety of motorcycles, but I do love them. My son and I are going to Eastern Wyoming next June to ride fire roads in the National forest on 650s.

Keep safe, Fish! :thumb

[Nir]

Pathfinder, Ginger, great shots!

Ride safely guys!

[pathfinder]

I found some more of Fish's 4 legged rats of the forest today as they watched us walk by ....:D :D

Just for you FISH!!

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/13975687-L.jpg


"I see you...."
http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/13975690-L.jpg

[GREAPER]

http://pathfinder.smugmug.com/photos/13234394-S.jpg


I love this one Pathfinder. The white snow in the background makes a perfect white backdrop for the deer.

I would definatly prefer to hit the squirrel on a bike. I hit a cat on mine once and it was just as Fish described... thump thump. We have a lot of deer here and hitting one was one of my biggest fears riding at night.

[ian408]

Squirrel/Deer/dog/leaves, it's all the same. Hit one and bad things could happen.

But the pix are nice though!

Ian