I'll see you the same stuff here in the FoD. Fallow deer as common as the sheep. Badgers aplenty, foxes like dogs. See the odd Roe and in a 1 place Muntjack. otters have been seen but not for a while( Well by me anyway). Buzzards are becoming a noisy nuisance rather than a novelty but the Peregrines and Goshawks are worth a stare.
Raise you a boar or ten. effing pain in the dark as they moot in the verges with their arses in the road. Being black they are rather hidden but they don't half damage a car.
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I saw a deer.... Commuting Nature Watch
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Here in New Mexico, wildlife pretty common (even in my front yard in Albuquerque--coyotes, deer, and occasionally a bear wanders down from the mountains and very rarely a mountain lion). In the winter the deer come down from the high mountains to the foothills and it gets your heart-rate cranked up when one jumps across the trail in front of you.
On a ride last weekend in the Jemez mountains in the new Valles Caldera National Preserve, I saw bear, deer, elk, coyotes, numerous eagles & hawks and best of all---- nary a human being all day.
If any of you guys/gals ever come over this way and want a really cool ride, check into the Valles Calderas:
http://www.vallescaldera.gov/comevisit/
You have to make a reservation to ride and they only allow 80 bikes on a given available day(in several rides I never saw more than 6 on the busiest day) and riding only on alternate weekends in the summer (under 6-8 feet of snow all winter). Not a technical/hard ride (except for the 8200-9200 feet in elevation), but pretty magnificent scenery and solitude. Probably 80+ miles of trails/old logging roads and most of all, the wildlife.
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where do i start?
my 4 month 700 mile commute, i saw many things, from birthing sheep, mating beetles, sharks, seals, chuffs, deer, snakes, etc....
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I don't commute by bike but see roe deer on early morning rides round the NY Moors fairly regularly. If I understand correctly Roe deer detect movement ( and obviously scent). Certainly, a coasting bicycle coming from downwind tends to get careful consideration rather than fear, at least until you are close enough for them to either get a scent or work out that whilst you aren't strictly moving you are getting a lot bigger. At which point they tend to light the blue touch paper and leave at speed. Foxes on the other hand tend to see you from a distance away and nonchalantly fade into the trees.
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The only wildlife I have seen was a very bizarre goth glamour photo shoot on the Water of Leith. Do goths count as wildlife?
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I drive to work, but think myself very lucky to see Red Deer, Buzzards and Red Squirrels. I saw a Grey Squirrel this morning, which makes me worry about the native Red population here. Luckily it had been hit by another car and killed.
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Do goths count as wildlife?
Wild? they were livid!
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3 Red Kites, 4 Buzzards on the way home last night. Innumerable crows
mobbing both.Oh, and 1 large moist dog egg left mid singletrack. Luckily it doesn't stick to the tread of a semi grip tyre and showered me instead
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In the FoD I see loads of deer and buzzards and ting, you know, all dead close up and that. There are even wild boar in there, but I've yet to see any myself, like. Saw a mole being mobbed by a load of sparrows last week on my ride in along the river.
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Fox has been spotted once and loads of rabbit. There is the odd kestrel over some of the scrubland, but my commute used to take me a long the beach ( I live at the end of it) and sometimes the dolphins would be jumping at the mouth of the harbour.
that fairly brightens up your day.
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Most of these have already been listed, but on my commute/local rides I've notched up:
Loads of frogs
Swans
Ducks
Foxes
Rabbits
Deer
Herons
A couple of Owls (especially cool the time I was at the front of the group and it just swooped down and flew in front of me for a few metres)
Cats up trees
Bats (no one else has mentioned bats yet! Woo!)Um, I think that's all! I do like my local rides and my scenic route to work!
Oh - and the odd Kestrel
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On one lucky commute I saw:
Green Woodpecker
Small Deer/Muntjack
Hare
Foxes
Squirrels
Rabbits
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Popped round to see a friend at work (North Bristol Suburbs) and saw in the wild (not including the usual suspects):
Deer
Kestrel
Buzzard
Yellowhammer
Goldfinch
Swift's
Canada Geese (flying)
Ducks (flying)
Pheasants
Partridges
& a few more I can't rememberI took a photo of the Kestrel & the Deer with my phone through a set of binoculars, not a very good photo tho.
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My favourite sight is the Kingfisher that tends to race me along the Maun. You can't beat the flash of iridescent blue as it flies along.
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sharki - Member
where do i start?my 4 month 700 mile commute, i saw many things, from birthing sheep, mating beetles, sharks, seals, chuffs, deer, snakes, etc....
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