My exciting news!

[Kat Kanning]

I saw my first moose on the way home from Concord last night 

[Pat K]

Cool Kat, Did ya get a pic?

[Friday]

Cool! I saw my first New Hampshire skunk two nights ago.  I was on foot, so I let it take as looooooong as it wanted to stroll across my path. 

[AlanM]

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.

[davemincin]

Cool! I saw my first New Hampshire skunk two nights ago.? I was on foot, so I let it take as looooooong as it wanted to stroll across my path.?

Yooooooooo.....Friday you're becoming a country Gal!

[davemincin]

Ok thinking this is the NH, exciting animal story thread!

I got one!

Ok went up to Wentworth today to see Kate and Adam!

Kick onto I93 south to head home.? Hey, a minute or so down the road,
there is Bambie, kicks out from the trees and starts trotting down the
highway.? So kick off the cruise, and do the brake.? Bambie just keeps
trotting down the middle of the road on the white line? ???? Sweet
jesus, I do more brake!? Now I'm down to like 20, and pretty little Bambie
decides it's time to make the crossing? ???? More brake, she's just trotting
looking like, beautiful.? So what does she do? ???? As she is so gracefully
prances past the front of my car, her back legs kick out and is is on all
two's racing!

No sh..? missed her by a matter of inches...Hey great to be in NH!

[Pat K]

Hey Dave it was just a female deer looking for one of your hugs.

[AlanM]

To continue the animal story thread.
3 or 4 winters ago, just before xmas, I was driving through a development in Stratham. A house has a sleigh in the yard, all decorated, with a Santa Claus waving at the passersby. It's night, so the lights are lit. Around the sleigh are the 8 reindeer. Or so I thought. Turns out it was a herd of deer. Beautiful to watch them as they scurried away.

[davemincin]

Hey Dave it was just a female deer looking for one of your hugs.

Hey Pat...your a sick puppy!   Truth is she was a pretty little four leggid Lady,
and next time I get up Wentworth way I will be surely looking for her!

[Michael Fisher]

Amethyste and I go on walks each night around midnight. ?We walk down empty, dark roads, (just the way I like it! ?) and get a free light show from the lightning bugs, a chorus from the frogs, and the occasional cat or other unidentified animal crossing our path or walking in the woods next to us. ?I love it! ?

[John]

OK. If this is the animal story thread:

One morning, while out walking in the forest (shortly after sunrise) I passed Kettle Pond and the White Oak . . .
As I was getting towards the Wetlands, (you know, where bugs like to breed) I became aware that the birds were filling this place with some of the most continuous noise I could imagine . . .  I tried to count the number of different types I could hear, but there were too many.
It was in between there and the Seasonal Pond that I realised that anyone (me)who thinks the forest is always a quiet place has not been there at feeding time - at the height of bug season, by the wetlands - in a forest where about 200 species of birds make their home.
To me it was very strange, very loud --- and very nice.
I need to make a point of being there - at that time of day - again, soon.

[Annie]

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.

Alan,  I saw a bear up in the white mountains.    I was hiking on the Church Pond Trail with my dog, Ben.  There was a "natural trail" that crossed the one we were on and Ben decided he wanted to meander off and investigate.  I had him off lead for a minute,  (I had him off lead a little bit now and then when there were no other hikers nearby) and when I looked over to see where he was heading, he was walking in the direction of a big fat bear waddling bottom moving away from us. :O . I called him back to me quickly, as you can imagine.  Good thing he was well behaved.  LOL.  The bear kept on going on her (his) merry way, and we enjoyed the view, albiet with slightly racing hearts.  What a terrifc experience and memory.

Maybe you need to go camping in the White Mountains National Forest   There are plenty up there.

Annie

[Pat K]

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.

Alan don't you know you cant get Bear from here. 

[AlanM]

LOL
How about if I go somewhere else first? Can I get bare there? 

[Lloyd Danforth]

Got my first NH warning for speeding today!