Wildlife encounters

I thought I saw something with a tail run by one of the windows last night but I was sure it was a cat’s tail.

This morning I found this in the back yard.
I don’t mind the local coyotes hanging around. But I certainly don’t want to clean up after them. That’s one of the reasons I don’t keep my own pets.

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Sasquatch9billion said:
I thought I saw something with a tail run by one of the windows last night but I was sure it was a cat’s tail.

This morning I found this in the back yard.
I don’t mind the local coyotes hanging around. But I certainly don’t want to clean up after them. That’s one of the reasons I don’t keep my own pets.

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What are those remains from?
 
Sasquatch9billion said:
Just cleaned it up, it was an opossum. Crazy how they separated the organs and ate everything but those, the spine and the tail. Then it left a nice BM just to say "F-you."
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Death by coyote pack is violent. The pack each grab a limb of their captured prey and pull in separate directions until the animal comes apart. And that's after they have had their fun rag dolling their captured prey around for a bit. They are evil animals.
 
I was riding my usual ride a little over an hour and ago and pedaled right past a mountain lion. It was crouched in a shallow drainage on the shoulder no more than 10ft away. The flicking tail caught my peripheral vision and in the 0.5 second it took me to realize what I was looking at, I was beside it and looking it in the eyes. It was as surprised as me I think because its attention was on something in the drainage pipe under the road. I was going up a 12% grade or something doing maybe a fast walking pace. I just kept going while scrambling to get the nearly empty can of bear spray out of my jersey which I had only been carrying due to recently troublesome dogs later in the route. The cat stayed where it was until I lost visual. Pulled the rip cord before getting back to that section and called for a ride. It was going to be getting dark and it's a slow section with zero phone signal.

I'm looking at the data and my watts went up at that point by 40% and my HR from 158 to 184 without me even realizing.

On the way back was this:
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Agent Orange said:
I was riding my usual ride a little over an hour and ago and pedaled right past a mountain lion. It was crouched in a shallow drainage on the shoulder no more than 10ft away. The flicking tail caught my peripheral vision and in the 0.5 second it took me to realize what I was looking at, I was beside it and looking it in the eyes. It was as surprised as me I think because its attention was on something in the drainage pipe under the road. I was going up a 12% grade or something doing maybe a fast walking pace. I just kept going while scrambling to get the nearly empty can of bear spray out of my jersey which I had only been carrying due to recently troublesome dogs later in the route. The cat stayed where it was until I lost visual. Pulled the rip cord before getting back to that section and called for a ride. It was going to be getting dark and it's a slow section with zero phone signal.

I'm looking at the data and my watts went up at that point by 40% and my HR from 158 to 184 without me even realizing.

On the way back was this:
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Easy bunny hop.
 
Agent Orange said:
I was riding my usual ride a little over an hour and ago and pedaled right past a mountain lion. It was crouched in a shallow drainage on the shoulder no more than 10ft away. The flicking tail caught my peripheral vision and in the 0.5 second it took me to realize what I was looking at, I was beside it and looking it in the eyes. It was as surprised as me I think because its attention was on something in the drainage pipe under the road. I was going up a 12% grade or something doing maybe a fast walking pace. I just kept going while scrambling to get the nearly empty can of bear spray out of my jersey which I had only been carrying due to recently troublesome dogs later in the route. The cat stayed where it was until I lost visual. Pulled the rip cord before getting back to that section and called for a ride. It was going to be getting dark and it's a slow section with zero phone signal.

I'm looking at the data and my watts went up at that point by 40% and my HR from 158 to 184 without me even realizing.

On the way back was this:
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Donde?
 
Y-not said:
I forgot about the scorpions up here in the mountains.
We had one hanging out in the bathroom in a corner of the ceiling this morning.
Time to release the Guinea hens. . . .
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Yup! I thought scorpions hung out in places like the Mojave Desert and stuff. I seem to be blessed with hundreds around the property. Forget Snakes on a Plane. Scorpions freak me out for some reason. Find them a lot in the bathroom.

We currently have this hanging out on our back porch ceiling. You think, “ No big deal until you realize he is about 2 inches plus long. :unsure: Fortunately, it’s a Yellow Garden Spider and more good than bad. :thumbsup:

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