Big Daddy lives!!!

[mtruman]

Just amazing Patrick! This is one of your best ever (and that's really saying something). How close were you when he was strutting toward you here (and how close did he get). He is one magnificent animal. Hope you have many more years of spring greetings together.

[CHRIS]

This is a awesome shot Patrick. You should feel so lucky to have them stoll right up to you.He does look very healthy. Thanks for sharing.

[Snow Miser]

That is an awesome shot Patrick! He must really trust you. The rest of us would probably be pretty scared to get that close to a moose.

[debdog14]

Hi Patrick
Very Nice Shot! My mom and I were in the woods the night you took this shot. Big Daddy is the first moose I have seen in the wild. I took several shots of him and a few turned out most were blurry due to my excitement! Thanks for talking to us that night and for the great shot of him.

[forestgnome]

Hi Patrick
Very Nice Shot! My mom and I were in the woods the night you took this shot. Big Daddy is the first moose I have seen in the wild. I took several shots of him and a few turned out most were blurry due to my excitement! Thanks for talking to us that night and for the great shot of him.

Hello,

Thanks! it was a pleasure to meet the both of you, and glad you checked in. Welcome

Follow this link for a nice look at him last June. You can see the same battle notch in the back side of his right ear. http://www.mountwashington.org/forum...?t=4848&page=2

[debdog14]

Wow! I clicked on the link you sent me he is a big boy. I am thinking about coming back in the fall to see him with his rack, plus I miss the fall foilage, I don't get that in CA. By what month do the bucks have their racks? Thanks so much for sharing

[KathyC]

He is just so beautiful and so glad he made it through again...

[forestgnome]

Wow! I clicked on the link you sent me he is a big boy. I am thinking about coming back in the fall to see him with his rack, plus I miss the fall foilage, I don't get that in CA. By what month do the bucks have their racks? Thanks so much for sharing

I've never seen him beyond August, but you could get lucky,and there are other bulls around.

Bulls and bucks both start their antler growth in March/April. Antlers are fully grown by September, when they rub off the velvet and polish them by thrashing them through tree branches. Tannins in the branches gives the antlers their color, which are white when the velvet first comes off. Then they are used in the rut through October. Then they are dropped when they are no longer needed, which also makes life in winter easier. So, through winter they have no antlers until March, when the cycle begins again.

[forestgnome]

Big Daddy is a wise old sage now. He has lived in the forest for a very long time.

Every meeting is special...





happy trails

[Anna LeBlanc]

He's beautiful Patrick.I'd love to be able to reach up and pet him on the nose.

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Anna