There are turkeys in my neighborhood right now -- I saw a couple by the river, but apparently the other day one was just walking down the street by the fancy tea place.
Xander: I still don't get why we came here to get info about a killer snot monster. Giles: Because it's a killer snot monster from outer space. I did not say that.
'Never Leave Me'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Apr 11, 2013 4:44:05 pm PDT #18309 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Connie Neil - Apr 11, 2013 4:47:20 pm PDT #18310 of 30001
brillig
I often see deer at work during the winter. We're right up against the mountains, and the deer like to wander our campus and nibble the bushes and hopefully avoid the cars. When I work the real late/real early hours on the weekends, I keep close watch out, because they'll sometimes be standing in the parking lot acting like, well, deer in headlights.
sarameg - Apr 11, 2013 4:47:39 pm PDT #18311 of 30001
Welcome to the board, clio! No one has been accused of ax-murdering!
I lived in the mountains. I've had raccoons stick their fingers through holes in my bedroom screen, fingers licked clean by the raccoons, skunks under the house, bears, elk, mountain lions wandering through the yard... Cattle too! In town in NM, mainly coyotes and fox.
Here in B'more, I've seen a bear out in the 'burbs and foxes trotting down my street.
sarameg - Apr 11, 2013 4:48:42 pm PDT #18312 of 30001
The deer on the JPL campus crack me up. They're all ' yeah, rocket science, whatever, scrub oak! NOM.'
aurelia - Apr 11, 2013 4:51:17 pm PDT #18313 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I saw a wolf trotting across the Wayne State University campus in Detroit. I even made eye contact briefly. That was a large, impressive, and highly out of place animal.
Jesse - Apr 11, 2013 4:53:09 pm PDT #18314 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I blame suburbia. (And initially I had capslock on by accident, but maybe I'm not quite that emphatic about it.)
Amy - Apr 11, 2013 5:03:26 pm PDT #18315 of 30001
Because books.
No one has been accused of ax-murdering!
You know, yet.
Seeing bears in Yellowstone was an eye-opener, especially since they weren't behind a fence or a plexiglass wall. Stephen got to see a moose, too, and he was surprised at just how huge and intimidating it was.
Liese S. - Apr 11, 2013 5:05:35 pm PDT #18316 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
No one has been accused of ax-murdering!
Well, not convicted anyway.
And aurelia, sheesh, that is big drama!
Y'all know we have lots of elk in our yard. They eat my baby trees. Ooh, and I think we have baby coyotes again.
I dunno, Jesse, you might have some subconscious rage going on there. SUBURBIA!
Zenkitty - Apr 11, 2013 5:06:06 pm PDT #18317 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Yays for Gud, Consuela, and msbelle!
Hello, Monica!
Glad that big cat was taken safely home. Biggest animal I've seen in the wild - or not - was a whale, don't know what kind, frolicking in the strait between Washington State and Vancouver Island. We were on the beach and he was as close to it as he could get, possibly watching us with the same glee as we went running along the beach beside him.
billytea - Apr 11, 2013 5:08:10 pm PDT #18318 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Seeing bears in Yellowstone was an eye-opener, especially since they weren't behind a fence or a plexiglass wall. Stephen got to see a moose, too, and he was surprised at just how huge and intimidating it was.
Oh, that reminds me. Technically, the largest feral animals I've seen in a residential area was the herd of bison in San Francisco. Visited them with Hec.