Posts Tagged ‘animal’
Wednesday’s Woodland Walk #8
July 29, 2009Δ
BEAR
Strolling along the side of the road
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Full grown adult
American Black Bear
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I found some smaller tracks up the road
(My hand for comparison)
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Rustling Autumn Leaves
August 10, 2008
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Woods Forest Deep
Moving fast quiet
Instinct to survive
Running through understory
Hidden from above
Alone fighting selection
Must be superior
Combat the environment
Self and nature
Claw Bite Flee
Day to day
Granted ever nothing
Nothing ever given
Get through today
Live for tomorrow
Eat Seek Breed
Not just inches
Take only yards
Never question why
Accept only how
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Wednesdays Woodland Walk
May 14, 2008BLACK SNAKE IN TREE STUMP
This is to show how docile black snakes are. You can pick them up with relative ease. The worst thing that they’ll do is to skunk you. They will produce a musky oil on their skin which gets on you when handling them. To get it off requires only a few washings of the hands & arms. I’ve never had one try to bit me. They prefer to escape by speed or burrowing. I would have liked to pick this guy up to give you the full tour. However, this is in a large poison-ivy patch. Not a good place to tangle with snake. Enjoy.
Through my Office Window
March 7, 2008I am sitting in my office banging away on the ‘puter when I see a flurry of activity out of the corner of my eye. I turn to look and see a Sharp-Shinned Hawk take down a pigeon. Fortunately the windows at my office are one-way so the hawk can not see that I am only EIGHT feet away from it. To top it off my handy-dandy camera is sitting on my desk. Below is one minute out of about fifteen it took for the hawk to eat lunch. Pigeon, Mmmmmmm..
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Standing on a Block
November 23, 2007Standing
Standing still
Still in the forest
In the forest looking down
Down at my feet
At my feet feathers
Feathers from a hawk
Primaries, tail, many
Many feathers beside a Beech tree
A Beech tree with a hole
A hole filled with the remains
Remains of a Red-Shouldered Hawk
Kneeling
Kneeling near a different tree
A different tree with another hole
A hole in the base
The base filled with leaves
Leaves covered in blood
Blood dripping
Dripping from higher inside the tree
The Owls tree
The Hawk
October 30, 2007Dance you
On the wind you ride
Silhouette against the sky
One missing tail feather
Still the master
Power of the thermal
Unfolding beneath your wings
Born to fly
Hunting to survive
Moment to moment
Innate prowling
No alternative
Yet
Unmarked time
Away from the nest
Away from instinct
Nobody is looking
Dance you
On the wind you live
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