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Re: Wildlife

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On a recent overnight backpack trip to McCurdy Park in the Lost Creek Wilderness, around sunset this moose decided to become my camp buddy. During the night, woke me up a few times making noises. And the next morning when I got up to view the sunrise he/she was about 60 to 100 feet from my camp. I was impressed just to see a moose, let alone to share a camp with one. What a surreal experience that was.
My theory is, this moose figured if a bear showed up he/she only had to outrun me and not the bear :lol: .
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Saw this today, nearly as big as my hand.

Think it's is a Dark Fishing Spider...any arachnologists out there?
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EGAD I’d rather run into a grizzly than a spider that size.
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Yea, it was a little freaky, as I put my hand on the rock to balance myself as I was wading in the water across the boulder strewn bottom and I see this thing a few inches from my hand.
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Blue Heron fishing & a Fledgling hawk watching a parent hawk take flight.
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Good moments you captured there =D>
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Went kayaking at Rampart Reservoir and got see a young Bald Eagle and the parent hanging out in the trees. 1st time seeing a young one. Pretty cool.
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Not a very clear shot because they were so far away but wild turkeys walking the fence line a couple days ago on our property.

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