flying bear and swamp trompin' for moose
This 3 or 4 year old sow was on our second-floor deck before dawn, snooping for a meal. There are no stairs to this deck, but she didn't need them. She was hufing exessively at my dog and me...
Dawn from the Sugar Hill Overlook, on the Kancamagus...
I found this old beaver bog off trail in a mountain pass in the Sandwich Range
This dragonfly has a bum wing.
While watching to see if a fish or a cedar waxwing would grab it for a meal, I heard the thrashing of a bull moose off to the west. (Thrashing is when they vigorously drag their antlers through branches to remove the velvet and then to polish the antlers). The sound led me to another old bog...
I was hiking through this bog toward the sound of the thrashing when the bull emerged into the bog. He saw me right away.
He soon turned and headed back into the trees, giving another look at me over his shoulder...
I wish I could have gotten closer but it was still very nice. There's something very special about the prescence of a big bull moose in autumn in a bog, far from the trail in a mountain pass.
I tracked him but I could not catch up to him, but he led me through some nice moose habitat with loads of hobblebush...
gigantic hobblebush leave...
happy trails
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He looks big!
