Re: O/T - Eugene, 'kay you've convinced me ...


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On Jun 16, 11:50 pm, "Arved Sandstrom" <asandst...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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... I'm coming over ... just make up the bed in the spare room ...;)

I just finished watching the latest DVD you sent me - Mountain of the
Sea.
Absolutely beautifully photographed. And, fortunately - unlike the
previous video you sent - the narrator doesn't overuse the word
"quaint"
... heheh ....

You're lucky to live in a part of the world where there are so many
beautifully exotic animals, bordering on tame even! Penguins waddling
around sunbathers on the beach, baboons hitching rides on cars - that
is,
when they're not being smucked as road kill ...;(

Visit Nova Scotia sometime. My parents live in downtown Dartmouth and
they
regularly get raccoons. We "smuck" several tens of thousands of porkies
and
skunks every year. Drive a back highway at dawn or dusk and you'll see a
dozen deer. And that's without going into the woods.

A question: What are those strange little animals (the name of which
I
couldn't catch) that chitter chatter in a jeeble jeeble fashion that
the
narrator says, "has the digestive tract of a bird, teeth of a rhino,
and
are most closely related to the elephant." They look like
groundhogs.
As such, I don't understand the elephant bit.

Anyway, for the gentle readership, I didn't see Eugene in the video
but
saw some captivating moments of a whale doing acrobatics offshore ...
%)

- nil

PS: I can see why you have been enchanged by all things sea and naval
....

Whatever those wonderful little animals are, I am sure that they are
being
hunted into extinction.

AHS

We got deer in our yard in Arlington, VA for Crissake. Foxes lived on
the trash cans on the golf course next door. My inlaws in Annandale
have a major deer problem. Straight up suburbs, but give them a patch
of woods to hide in and your carefully planted shrubs and flowers are
dinner.

It's amazing where the "wildlife" manages to get to. In fact, there is
wildlife and then there's wildlife. Some critters shy away from man like
the plague - others coexist quite well. Dartmouth for example is very
treed (look at it from an aerial photo and most of it looks like park) and
has many water and green zones, so animals have natural access routes.
That's why my parents are right downtown but regularly get raccoons
feeding on my Mom's birdseed. The birdseed explains why about once a year
a hawk flies into a window, and why owls are not rare. In fact two nights
ago I heard an owl in *my* backyard, which means there's lots of critters
the owl is interested in. And no shortage of snakes - I've had a garter
snake visit my downstairs flat.

Deer are pretty friendly near built-up areas. It's almost like they have a
copy of the NS hunting regulations, and know how many hundreds of metres
of safe area they have. Drive around an area where you can't hunt them,
especially at dawn or dusk, and you'll see dozens. Come hunting season and
go out into the boonies, and you'll be lucky to see any some days. :-) I'm
still astonished at what deer will do to hide or escape - they seem to be
able to get through spruce thickets that would stop a small child, and
I've seen them crawl under fallen trees with two feet of space. When you
do see them, it's frequently on the other side of a clearcut, so a 300
yard shot...the problem being, in NS you normally expect 25 or 50 yard
shots and outfit acordingly, so you can't ethically just wing a bullet at
a deer 300 yards away.



Speaking of wildlife ... sniff ... one of my cats, the little wee one ...
hasn't been seen for a couple of days. He's the mighty hunter who has daily
brought prey - everything from voles to pigeons - into the house. I'm
afraid he may have encountered something a little higher up on the food
chain ... like maybe a raccoon ... or a .... car ...;(



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