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This is also not going to be much of an introduction, but I will just say that other than stamp collecting I am interested in spending my time outdoors with my dog and fishing rod. Sometimes I fish, sometimes I hike, sometimes I just drive around taking pictures of wildlife and most days it is a combination of the above.
OK, that was it. Now you know where my avatar picture comes from and why I am not very active on the board on Saturdays.
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Breathtaking photos!! Thankyou for sharing
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Don't you just love those gentle rolling hills, just like the South downs in Sussex by the sea.
Looks wonderful walking country, except for the bears etc.
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Beautiful photos! Thanks for posting. Which river is depicted?
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Dave, this is the Skeena river and across is the Seven Sisters Mountain Range and park. The pictures were taken from Kitwanga mountain at elevation 1,700m. I go up to 2,100m there in the summer and yes there are bears, wolverines, wolves, coyotes, moose and possibly cougars.
Last Saturday I was planning on mushroom picking, so I climbed another 200 meters in the morning to find no mushrooms, then I did this hike. Finally I did some exploration near a neighboring Indian community. I came across a yard so disgustingly messy that I pulled up my camera and took 3 shots with one of the occupants in plain view staring at me. After looking around the village in three more spots and about 1 hour later, I was clearly being followed and chased down the road by a mini-van with 3 Indians in it taking pictures of my car and license plates!
What a day!
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See I knew it was the Sussex hills, these are known as the Seven Sisters. Though mine are a bit whiter.
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I would post something from central Florida, but there is nothing above the horizon line except clouds.
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That's one very lucky dog!
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Yes, I think he is a lucky dog to live where he does and have an owner that will take him out at all possible times. In the rest of time , especially in the winter, he sleeps in his two beds and if I am at home, follows me like a duckling anywhere in the house.
Below are some of his highlights from this past year. Don't want to go too far back or the forum will get cluttered with pictures. He chased moose in March, put a bear in the tree in May and fought a marmot in July (both remained unscathed). And to give him some credit, in the rare occasions when he would get wrapped in my line during a cast, he remains calm, saving the rod.
(this is a selfie)
(the bear he put in the tree)
(by the ocean at the end of a hiking day)
(up in the alpine)
(even I had a swim in a glacier fed lake that hot day)
(getting close to the end of the fishing day, but I had 1 more fish after this picture)
(from last month when I ate all blueberries I could eat)
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Beautiful pictures! They make me want to go back to BC immediately!
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Great doggie! 
We lost our Ted a few years ago and haven't replaced him. So I pet other people's dogs whenever I can. We were at my daughter's this weekend and her little Habanese knows I'm her friend and spends most of our time together smack center in my lap.
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Cougar,
What is his breed? He looks like a Sheltie mix of some kind.
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Pogopossum, this is kind of an awkward question. No defined breed. We were told he is a cross breed between a collie, terrier and pomeranian. Picked him up at a local animal shelter where he was born and was the last one left to be adopted out of four puppies total. We came across one of his brothers a few times, as he is with a local family. The other two I have never seen. They might be far away by now.
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No dog (co-op building rules), no bears (NYC Parks Dept rules), but we found this guy outside our 6th floor kitchen window just one month ago:
Nice dog, nice locale!
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Great pictures alright. I particularly like mountain scenes and country scenes in general. Also, the pictures of your dog are great too. We are also animal lovers and have 5 dogs and 4 cats. Three of the dogs are in their 17th year, but the two Poodles are only 4 and 2 1/2 respectively (mother & daughter). Three of our 4 cats are 8 years old but our one cat is either 21 or 22!! We aren't sure because she is a rescue cat and we have had her for over 20 years now. She is still doing ok.
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I love pictures of happy dogs!
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Beautiful scenery and looks like dog paradise. Based on the first few photos I would have named the dog Frodo or Sam (looks like the approach to Mordor).
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"Based on the first few photos I would have named the dog Frodo"
Not far from the truth at all. There are spots on that ridge where he stalls and I have to carry him under my armpit which increases my chances of falling. I will post a picture or two from the higher grounds from last year. As much as I feel hampered by him in mountain climbing, I consider him my safety compass; if he wouldn't go, there must be a reason for it.
In fact one time we turned back on a trail in the winter because he sniffed something and wouldn't walk further. I am sure this must have been a pack of wolves, as we usually see their tracks.
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"Up in the Alpine" is my favorite shot!
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Wow! Have to admit my heart did a little flutter when the screen went black for a second....really glad to see the ending.
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Nice size fish! Catch and release. That's very cool.
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Hi Tom in Exton, PA!
We have a Habanese, also known as a "Velcro Dog". Sticks to you 100% of the time. Supposedly, Queen Victoria had one. Fifteen were brought to Cuba around 1521, and Cuba tried unsucessfully to restrict the breed to Cuba. She goes with us in a couple of days to Freeport, the Bahamas, as a 15 lb. Service Dog. Completing the paperwork was interesting.
Regards,
Bob Armstrong
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A few pictures from the end of April and May. I and Charlie are still going to places, taking pictures of wildlife, catching a few fish and cleaning some of the mess people leave behind.
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Hi Cougar,
Love your pictures and your dog, he is very lucky to have you taking him everywhere.
We have a British Blue cat who is very territorial, she is now 13 years old, but in the last year she has chased the deer out of the garden, fought 2 raccoons off of our deck and chased a bear away from our fruit tree in the front garden. She is a real fighter and when angry she stands on her hind legs, her claws outstretched and screams like a banshee. The black bear looked and ran down into our meadow.
Her name is Sheikha and I found her in Abu Dhabi as a stray and took her to London, where our daughter was living at that time and she stayed with our daughter until she came home to BC 4 years ago along with her 3 cats. So Sheikha is a real world traveler.
Cheers, John
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Love your "wilderness" pictures cougar.
And as TheKing I also have a blue British Short hair cat, 6 months old and named Fiona.
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Your Fiona is beautiful, you are a lucky person.
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Here are a few of the other little critters that try to eat the bird food and annoy our cat.
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This is our friendly bear walking down our front driveway, he's looking scared, as he was the one probably that our cat chased off last year!
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Just another mother and cub in our back garden
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Neat wildlife photos! I am on a wooded acre in the Philadelphia suburbs so we have a variety of common wildlife like raccoons and deer, an occasional red fox, but fortunately not any bears.
Here's my little herd of deer, aka "the girls" who hang out in my neighborhood. Notice that they are all looking at me, and allowed me to get pretty close without flinching. They are probably too tame for their own good, but we are in a town where no firearms or hunting are allowed.
Not the greatest picture, but here they are lounging around in the yard. They'll sometimes sit for hours.
This past week this one was hanging by herself and a bit out of sort. She spent a lot of time sitting under this bush, one of her favorite spots because she watches me work at the kitchen table. I started to worry about her health, and took note that she was walking fine, but would walk around and come back to sit in the same spot. Mystery solved this week, she's being followed around by a new baby doe! I've got the camera on the table to snap a shot when I have the opportunity.
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Hi, We also get a load of deer living in our meadow and they are really tame, this buck used to come right up to the front door and I could stroke his head and antlers and would hang around for hours.
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Cool! In my area we only see the bucks during mating season. They live up in sparsely populated woods and are very skittish.
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John, that is a great cat and a great story! I like the raccoon picture too; cute animals.
In the past 3 weeks I managed to "shoot" a few more bears and two foxes. Interaction with wildlife is difficult. I do not do anything to scare them off, but if they do not get a negative experience from our encounter, they are likely to lose their fear and their lives as a result of that. A tough one, for sure.
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Beautiful photos. What kind of fox is that?
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"... I like the raccoon picture too; cute animals ..."
Aye, lad, but have you seen what they do to laying hens?
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I think both foxes belong to the same species and the pictures were taken 2 weeks apart in about the same area. These must be northern foxes. Very different from the European fox for sure.
As to raccoons, I know they can do damage, but they can make pets too. Everyone wants to eat
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Tom, that's crazy! I have never seen deer just hang out so close to a house. Love all the pictures everybody.
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Great photos. I prefer to shoot raccoons on sight.
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Can't remember if I ever introduced myself, probably not.
This is also not going to be much of an introduction, but I will just say that other than stamp collecting I am interested in spending my time outdoors with my dog and fishing rod. Sometimes I fish, sometimes I hike, sometimes I just drive around taking pictures of wildlife and most days it is a combination of the above.
OK, that was it. Now you know where my avatar picture comes from and why I am not very active on the board on Saturdays.
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Breathtaking photos!! Thankyou for sharing
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Don't you just love those gentle rolling hills, just like the South downs in Sussex by the sea.
Looks wonderful walking country, except for the bears etc.
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Beautiful photos! Thanks for posting. Which river is depicted?
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Dave, this is the Skeena river and across is the Seven Sisters Mountain Range and park. The pictures were taken from Kitwanga mountain at elevation 1,700m. I go up to 2,100m there in the summer and yes there are bears, wolverines, wolves, coyotes, moose and possibly cougars.
Last Saturday I was planning on mushroom picking, so I climbed another 200 meters in the morning to find no mushrooms, then I did this hike. Finally I did some exploration near a neighboring Indian community. I came across a yard so disgustingly messy that I pulled up my camera and took 3 shots with one of the occupants in plain view staring at me. After looking around the village in three more spots and about 1 hour later, I was clearly being followed and chased down the road by a mini-van with 3 Indians in it taking pictures of my car and license plates! What a day!
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See I knew it was the Sussex hills, these are known as the Seven Sisters. Though mine are a bit whiter.
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I would post something from central Florida, but there is nothing above the horizon line except clouds.
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That's one very lucky dog!
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Yes, I think he is a lucky dog to live where he does and have an owner that will take him out at all possible times. In the rest of time , especially in the winter, he sleeps in his two beds and if I am at home, follows me like a duckling anywhere in the house.
Below are some of his highlights from this past year. Don't want to go too far back or the forum will get cluttered with pictures. He chased moose in March, put a bear in the tree in May and fought a marmot in July (both remained unscathed). And to give him some credit, in the rare occasions when he would get wrapped in my line during a cast, he remains calm, saving the rod.
(this is a selfie)
(the bear he put in the tree)
(by the ocean at the end of a hiking day)
(up in the alpine)
(even I had a swim in a glacier fed lake that hot day)
(getting close to the end of the fishing day, but I had 1 more fish after this picture)
(from last month when I ate all blueberries I could eat)
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Beautiful pictures! They make me want to go back to BC immediately!
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Great doggie!
We lost our Ted a few years ago and haven't replaced him. So I pet other people's dogs whenever I can. We were at my daughter's this weekend and her little Habanese knows I'm her friend and spends most of our time together smack center in my lap.
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Cougar,
What is his breed? He looks like a Sheltie mix of some kind.
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Pogopossum, this is kind of an awkward question. No defined breed. We were told he is a cross breed between a collie, terrier and pomeranian. Picked him up at a local animal shelter where he was born and was the last one left to be adopted out of four puppies total. We came across one of his brothers a few times, as he is with a local family. The other two I have never seen. They might be far away by now.
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No dog (co-op building rules), no bears (NYC Parks Dept rules), but we found this guy outside our 6th floor kitchen window just one month ago:
Nice dog, nice locale!
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Great pictures alright. I particularly like mountain scenes and country scenes in general. Also, the pictures of your dog are great too. We are also animal lovers and have 5 dogs and 4 cats. Three of the dogs are in their 17th year, but the two Poodles are only 4 and 2 1/2 respectively (mother & daughter). Three of our 4 cats are 8 years old but our one cat is either 21 or 22!! We aren't sure because she is a rescue cat and we have had her for over 20 years now. She is still doing ok.
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I love pictures of happy dogs!
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Beautiful scenery and looks like dog paradise. Based on the first few photos I would have named the dog Frodo or Sam (looks like the approach to Mordor).
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"Based on the first few photos I would have named the dog Frodo"
Not far from the truth at all. There are spots on that ridge where he stalls and I have to carry him under my armpit which increases my chances of falling. I will post a picture or two from the higher grounds from last year. As much as I feel hampered by him in mountain climbing, I consider him my safety compass; if he wouldn't go, there must be a reason for it.
In fact one time we turned back on a trail in the winter because he sniffed something and wouldn't walk further. I am sure this must have been a pack of wolves, as we usually see their tracks.
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"Up in the Alpine" is my favorite shot!
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Wow! Have to admit my heart did a little flutter when the screen went black for a second....really glad to see the ending.
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Nice size fish! Catch and release. That's very cool.
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Hi Tom in Exton, PA!
We have a Habanese, also known as a "Velcro Dog". Sticks to you 100% of the time. Supposedly, Queen Victoria had one. Fifteen were brought to Cuba around 1521, and Cuba tried unsucessfully to restrict the breed to Cuba. She goes with us in a couple of days to Freeport, the Bahamas, as a 15 lb. Service Dog. Completing the paperwork was interesting.
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A few pictures from the end of April and May. I and Charlie are still going to places, taking pictures of wildlife, catching a few fish and cleaning some of the mess people leave behind.
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Hi Cougar,
Love your pictures and your dog, he is very lucky to have you taking him everywhere.
We have a British Blue cat who is very territorial, she is now 13 years old, but in the last year she has chased the deer out of the garden, fought 2 raccoons off of our deck and chased a bear away from our fruit tree in the front garden. She is a real fighter and when angry she stands on her hind legs, her claws outstretched and screams like a banshee. The black bear looked and ran down into our meadow.
Her name is Sheikha and I found her in Abu Dhabi as a stray and took her to London, where our daughter was living at that time and she stayed with our daughter until she came home to BC 4 years ago along with her 3 cats. So Sheikha is a real world traveler.
Cheers, John
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Love your "wilderness" pictures cougar.
And as TheKing I also have a blue British Short hair cat, 6 months old and named Fiona.
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Your Fiona is beautiful, you are a lucky person.
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Here are a few of the other little critters that try to eat the bird food and annoy our cat.
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This is our friendly bear walking down our front driveway, he's looking scared, as he was the one probably that our cat chased off last year!
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Just another mother and cub in our back garden
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Neat wildlife photos! I am on a wooded acre in the Philadelphia suburbs so we have a variety of common wildlife like raccoons and deer, an occasional red fox, but fortunately not any bears.
Here's my little herd of deer, aka "the girls" who hang out in my neighborhood. Notice that they are all looking at me, and allowed me to get pretty close without flinching. They are probably too tame for their own good, but we are in a town where no firearms or hunting are allowed.
Not the greatest picture, but here they are lounging around in the yard. They'll sometimes sit for hours.
This past week this one was hanging by herself and a bit out of sort. She spent a lot of time sitting under this bush, one of her favorite spots because she watches me work at the kitchen table. I started to worry about her health, and took note that she was walking fine, but would walk around and come back to sit in the same spot. Mystery solved this week, she's being followed around by a new baby doe! I've got the camera on the table to snap a shot when I have the opportunity.
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Hi, We also get a load of deer living in our meadow and they are really tame, this buck used to come right up to the front door and I could stroke his head and antlers and would hang around for hours.
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Cool! In my area we only see the bucks during mating season. They live up in sparsely populated woods and are very skittish.
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John, that is a great cat and a great story! I like the raccoon picture too; cute animals.
In the past 3 weeks I managed to "shoot" a few more bears and two foxes. Interaction with wildlife is difficult. I do not do anything to scare them off, but if they do not get a negative experience from our encounter, they are likely to lose their fear and their lives as a result of that. A tough one, for sure.
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Beautiful photos. What kind of fox is that?
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"... I like the raccoon picture too; cute animals ..."
Aye, lad, but have you seen what they do to laying hens?
Cheers,
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I think both foxes belong to the same species and the pictures were taken 2 weeks apart in about the same area. These must be northern foxes. Very different from the European fox for sure.
As to raccoons, I know they can do damage, but they can make pets too. Everyone wants to eat
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Tom, that's crazy! I have never seen deer just hang out so close to a house. Love all the pictures everybody.
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Great photos. I prefer to shoot raccoons on sight.
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