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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:52 am Post subject: Kit Kat Moment |
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Near where I live (about –half a mile), there’s a herd of Deer in the Woods. Most days when I walk up there, I take my camera in the hope of getting a good shot. The Deer are terrified of people; as soon as they hear, smell or see you, they’re off. Yesterday we went walking (no camera) around the cornfields near the woods. Right there 10 feet in front of us, up to its knees in the corn, a baby Deer, just stood there. We looked at it; it looked right back at us, had a bit of a chinwag with it, asked if perhaps he/she would consider hanging around while I nipped home for my camera. Ten minutes went by just chatting, all the while getting closer until near touching distance. Then mummy and daddy Deer came along, all three of them took off at great speed. It could be months before I see another Deer, even at a distance. Humph! It was good to be that close though. |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:42 am Post subject: |
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To borrow and twist a famous saying, "The things you see when you haven't got your... camera!" Happens to me all the time (the same rule applies to my mobile phone - never have it with me when I really need to use it)
Sounded a lovely moment. Unless you had your camera ready it would probably have bolted - wild animals seem to be able to sense it a mile off even before you've got it out of its case (that's what I found in Scotland last year, when we stopped on the road out to Ardnamurchan Point, having spotted a pair just on the edge of some woodland). _________________ Ron |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I've just remembered that on a previous Scotland trip, about 15 years ago, we did spot one that hung around long enough to be photographed, in the trees just off the B-road which goes round Loch Lochy to Loch Arkaig. (I don't know how wild it was, though - those houses are pretty close!)
_________________ Ron |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:00 am Post subject: |
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How do you talk to a deer?
(I googled - you don't want to know) _________________ Ron |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:08 am Post subject: |
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Doe! What a great picture, Ron.
Well, when I chat to animals ... I answer for them in a ... How are you today?.... Oh you're very well... me too, that makes two of us. Just eating some grass are you? Looks yummy......there's not a lot else to do in the field is there? I suppose you could wiggle your ears a bit, maybe wander over there to see if the grass is any better.... etc etc.... kind of way.. |
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Minx
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4088 Location: France/Spain/Peterborough/Tenerife
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:03 am Post subject: |
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When we first saw this creature on the Canal du Midi, we thought it was a large water rat. It swam quite close to the boat and we fed it bread which it took with its front paws to put it in its mouth. Then we saw the size of its body as it hauled itself out of the water and thought it might be a beaver. It is actually a Coypu, originally bred for its fur but released/escaped and now destroying wildlife and banks along the canal. We met two boaters whose dogs had got into fights with them, one becoming very ill due to bites from the coypu's bright orange, highly disease ridden front teeth.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_SnDwcaz2Cn0/SoGfL7SHMyI/AAAAAAAAAEA/78PxLYIgylU/s720/DSC_0077.JPG
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_SnDwcaz2Cn0/SoGfH50zNzI/AAAAAAAAADs/HD-fc5oD2pc/s720/DSC_0072.JPG
But it's still quite an impressive looking creature. _________________ Minx
To err is human, to forgive - canine. |
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MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:16 am Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: | How do you talk to a deer?
(I googled - you don't want to know) |
What do you call a blind deer?
No eye-deer!
(OK, I'll get me coat....) _________________ MiS |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Nice photos, minx, just a shame they're vermin.
MiS - Yes! _________________ Ron |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject: Kit Kat moment |
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This also had me thinking of the Fast Show sketch where Bob Fleming's on a badger watch. They peep out of the hole while he talks to camera and as soon he starts coughing, they all flee! _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: Kit Kat moment |
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The Kit Kat ad with the rollerskating pandas was shown again on 'The Funny Side Of Animals', but, sadly, they didn't show the Fast Show sketch with Bob Fleming and the badgers! _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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