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[CNHT]

I've lived in NH for almost 54 years, but I have never seen a bear. Seen moose, deer, skunks, even a Mountain lion, but never a bear. Bummer.

I don't know about N.H., but I hear the best way to see a bear in Calif. is to go camping in the mountains and get careless with your garbage.

There were bears at Porc Fest...right in the campgrounds.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I'm a little embarrassed to mention the lone Turkey that walked across my lawn on his way down the street the other day.

The first day of the first Porcfest there was a rumor about a cub running around the campground.   If you remember that year they were tearing up the road between rogers and Lancaster.  You're thinking Lloyds wrong. They were tearing up the road during the second Porcfest.  They apparently stopped the last day of #1 and restarted on the 1st day of #2.

Anyway, year one, I'm on my way back to rogers and traffic is stopped in both directions for a few minutes.   Suddenly, On my right, the side with all of the houses,  appears to be a puppy sliding down the embankment.He gets up and I can see it is a bear cub.  He shakes himself off and runs across the street. Then one identical to the first slides down the bank and runs across the street.  Then the mother, quite a bit larger slides down the bank,  I swear, looks both ways and runs across the street.

[CNHT]

The animals don't go away even when homes are built. When my house was the only one out here in the boonies, we had deer, moose, bear, fabulous owls and that bobcat that had a screech like no other animal I've ever heard, and they have not gone away.

I killed a huge deer last fall.

The following weekend, I was driving three guys to NASCAR and a deer ran in front of my pickup, in the city of MANCHESTER no less!

[Russell Kanning]

Fox Trot is a good album and can be traced to Yes in way less than 6 steps.

[NC2NH]

Fox Trot is a good album and can be traced to Yes in way less than 6 steps.

I gave it a shot at the Six degrees of Yes thread.

[TackleTheWorld]

Last Saturday driving through Manchester on highway 293 between the bridges I saw two bald eagles flying low, they might have been fishing in the river.

Me:  Wow, look at the big seagull
       Wait, thats too big to be a seagull
       It's feathery and brown, not smooth and white.
       Holy crud it's got a white head!  It's a bald eagle!
       Hey!  There's another one right behind it!!
       Look everybody!  Two bald eagles!!

[Lloyd Danforth]

 

[Kat Kanning]

Cool!  I've never seen one.

[Raineyrocks]

Some guy at a garage told me that if you leave bird feeders anywhere near your house bears come to eat the stuff in them.  So far I've seen a porcupine crossing the dirt road we live on, a mink in our yard, and we saw a dead moose on the side of the road.  I thought it was a horse from a distance, gosh moose are big.
What is the plural word for moose, meese?  Hee, hee, only kidding it's mooses, right?

[Raineyrocks]

Oh yeah I almost forgot, we used to have this pretty deer that would come out of the woods and let us get pretty close but I haven't seen her in months.

[Rosie the Riveter]

Last Saturday driving through Manchester on highway 293 between the bridges I saw two bald eagles flying low, they might have been fishing in the river.

Me:  Wow, look at the big seagull
       Wait, thats too big to be a seagull
       It's feathery and brown, not smooth and white.
       Holy crud it's got a white head!  It's a bald eagle!
       Hey!  There's another one right behind it!!
       Look everybody!  Two bald eagles!!

Another reason to hate the Airport Access Road -- In addition to the taking of people's land in Londonderry they are planning to drive the access road right though the Bald Eagle nesting ground along the Merrimack River.

http://www.taxpayer.net/TCS/RoadRuin/manchesternh.htm

[Lloyd Danforth]

My sister saw a flying squirrel  at her suet feeder last night.  I disturbed one last summer while emptying an old building.  I had never seen one before and had no idea they existed in the northeast.

[Raineyrocks]

My sister saw a flying squirrel  at her suet feeder last night.  I disturbed one last summer while emptying an old building.  I had never seen one before and had no idea they existed in the northeast.

Oh great, just what I need another reason to fear the outside!  If I ever see a flying squirrel whiz past me I think I'd faint!

[davek]

What is the plural word for moose, meese?  Hee, hee, only kidding it's mooses, right?

Our local zoo wanted half a dozen of them, so they sent an order for "...one moose, and five more..."

[Raineyrocks]

What is the plural word for moose, meese?  Hee, hee, only kidding it's mooses, right?

Our local zoo wanted half a dozen of them, so they sent an order for "...one moose, and five more..."

That's a good way to deal with the plural issue!