Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/19

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Friday (actually Saturday) Fox
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:12:11 -0700
References: <6a7544a60909190956t3f1fd5c6p35bb9a64440fe0e4@mail.gmail.com>

On Sep 19, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> Nathan suggests introducing wolves to control the deer. Wild wolves  
> have
> been migrating into New York from Canada but they haven't reached  
> the Hudson
> Valley yet. When they come we can have Friday Flowers again. Locals  
> have
> been calling deer 150 pound rats. They will eat everything green. We  
> do have
> coyotes but they are too small to chase a fully grown deer. They  
> will take
> down small fauns but only if Mama is not present. I have a video of  
> a coyote
> devouring a faun about a few yards from our kitchen window. Coyotes  
> do kill
> and eat cats and small dogs and if you want your tiny pet to live  
> long and
> prosper it is well to keep it indoors. We live in a heavily wooded  
> area near
> the Hudson, fairly remote from nearby towns. Our small lawn has a  
> southern
> exposure and is warmed by the afternoon sun. A while back I came  
> across a
> sleeping fox. Foxes generally flee from humans but this one just  
> blinked and
> when back to sleep. I suspect that he gorged himself on fermented wild
> raspberries and was sleeping off a good drunk. A few hours later I  
> noticed
> him staggering off to his den.


or he might have rabies, careful...Steve


>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Sleeping+Fox+1.JPG.html
>
> Here is a closeup. I couldn't have been more than a couple of feet  
> from his
> nose.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Sleeping+Fox+2.JPG.html
>
> Oh, yes, an informal portrait of Mrs. Bambi taken from the shadow  
> side.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Mrs_+Bambi.JPG.html
>
> Larry Z
>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] IMG: Friday (actually Saturday) Fox)