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Posted: **Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:09 am**

I recently had a pretty cool encounter with a mountain lion. I just topped out atop a ridgeline when I saw four mulies running out of the corner of my right eye....a second later I spotted a mountain lion running from my left flank maybe 60 yards away.

I don't want to sound too presumptuous, but I think it was probably stalking the mulies and I totally spoiled its effort. I sure am glad it didn't get made at me....at least thats what I kept nervously saying to myself as I finished the hike with my eyes checking for anything behind me.

Posted: **Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:01 pm**

God help you if you ever run into any of these creatures while hiking...

Here's a sample. (It's not a joke. They're real...)

Posted: **Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:40 pm**

I love animals and all, but that aye-aye is hideous. Really.

Posted: **Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:26 am**

Nutrias are tops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coypu

Posted: **Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:51 pm**

Some folks from New Orleans claim that the swamp-people (Louisiana folks who don't live near New Orleans, apparently) enjoy nutria (beaver-rats, really ~ or 'nutra rats' as locals call them) as a regular part of their diet. So when I was down there in December, I asked around everywhere for some I could try. The New Orleans folks thought I was crazy, and even the swamp-people gave me funny looks.

Posted: **Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:26 pm**

Bears, most kinds, Mountain Lions, Wolves, Coyotes, Bobcats, Deer, Elk, Moose, Yaks, Bald Eagles, lots of different birds and lizards. The wierdest thing though was a camel spider.

Posted: **Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:37 pm**

The best animal I have seen was a big horn sheep here is Anza Borrego just got a shot of him before he darted off.

http://socalpeaks.com/Images/DPS/Indianhead/large/Indianhead3.jpg

Posted: **Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:44 am**

gbeane wrote:i was walking through the woods in winter when I heard this strange crunching noise. I look up in the trees and I see a chipmunk munching on another chipmunk, bones and all.

Wow! If anything is wicked that is! :shock:

Posted: **Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:50 am**

Yesterday while walking on Monte del Pardo with my mom we saw roe deers some hundred meters away

Posted: **Sun May 23, 2010 9:37 pm**

Hehe, just kidding. Here are a few critter pics I took in Glacier NP.

Posted: **Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:38 am**

My friend got some great pictures of bighorn sheep
http://sangabrielmnts.myfreeforum.org/s ... t2935.html

Posted: **Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:18 pm**

Lately, banana slugs have been the most common wildlife I've seen while hiking. However, I did see a fox the other day when I was driving to work.

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:46 pm**

Spotted a condor on Saturday, at Andrew Molera State Park.

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:59 pm**

Imagine seeing three cougars together. :shock:

This picture was taken in the San Bernadino mountains (California)
http://sangabrielmnts.myfreeforum.org/K ... t3023.html
http://www.cougarmagic.com

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:50 pm**

Cy Kaicener wrote:Imagine seeing three cougars together. This picture was taken in the San Bernadino mountains (California)
http://sangabrielmnts.myfreeforum.org/K ... t3023.html
http://www.cougarmagic.com

that guy's album is insane!

zoomed in of one pic

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