Some of the fun things I have seen

[oleefish2]

In November several years ago I was glassing for white tails and a red fox and a small fork horn mule deer bouncing out of the brush. They circled each other then sneaked toward each other. When they got close they stretched their necks out and toughed noses. They bounced away from each other and repeated this play for a few minutes before running off.


One other fun event was when I was elk hunting. I had sneaked to the edge of a large meadow and hid behind and under neath a large ever green tree, just before day light. As the sun started to reach into the meadow I could see several cows, caves and a few small bulls scattered along the edges. 5 different bulls were bugling from the timber ridges which made my level of excitement acute but my imagination was dreaming of that bull of a life time. A cow with her calf was feeding along my side of the timber. The cow was not wanting the calf to nurse and kept kicking and butting it. They kept getting closer and closer until they were standing next to my hiding spot. She must have caught my sent because she turned and starting looking right at my spot. She barked and stomped her front feet and took a couple steps closer. She then stretched her head and neck to were she had her head under the outside branches of the tree. She barked again but with her attention on me the calf had take its chance and began to nurse. This seemed to make her mad and she spun around butted it and walked off. This meadow has a main trail that goes through it and as I watched the elk become nerves, and leave I could hear voices. In a matter of seconds they all had blended into the timber an it was over.

 

[Lige]

Last fall, heading into a hunting spot we came across these 2 bucks. Looked like they had been at it for a while. When they would both lay down from exhaustion we tried to pry them apart, no luck. We called the game warden and he made his way out. He used a shotgun with slugs to shoot part of the main beam off of one and they were able to get up and run off, both shaking their heads. I saw the smaller buck later in November, looking as healthy as can be. Never saw the larger one again.

 

[gouch]

A friend and I were fishing from my canoe in the slack water behind a dam that used to be on the Rogue River. On the bank down from the dam is a pullout where people park to watch the salmon go up the fish ladder. That day a teenage couple was there watching the fish when the boy started tickling the girl or grabbing her titties or something. Anyway, she started squealing like crazy drawing our attention. All of a sudden my buddy said, “there’s a cougar!” Sure enough there was a huge cougar running full bore down the hill straight towards the couple. He stopped on a big rock on the cut bank of the road. He sat down and watched the couple for probably close to a full minute before running off. We later paced the distance from the rock to where the two were standing. Just under 40 ft. and that couple never had a clue.

 

[oleefish2]

This makes me remember a fishing trip to Glendo Lake in Wyoming. I was running up the bank to my camping spot and a total nude blonde lady from a playboy centerfold stands up and starts waving at me. I slowed my 12 horse out board to make sure that my mind and eye were on the same page. About that time a hairy creature stepped up and yelled for me to come over to. It was hard to tell if he was naked because of all the hair but I opened up my motor to full 10 mph and raced away as fast as I could. Parked behind them was a VW mini van with CA plates.

 

[crock239]

I grew up in SC...years ago my college roommate and I were fishing from a 15ft john boat in a creek of a saltwater marsh....it was low to mid tide and the creek we were in couldn't have been more than 25 ft wide, with 6 or 8 ft of exposed mud banks on either side below tall green marsh grasses. About 10 yds off the bow a family group of 3 to 5 dolphins suddenly broke the surface, and the next thing we knew the dolphins erupted out of the water sliding up onto the mud banks, pushing a wall of water and fish up onto the shore....then slid back into the water, swam under our boat and did the same thing on the other side of the creek. Each time they were pushing a wall of water and fish ahead of them up onto the mud bank and eating them b4 sliding back down into the creek...pretty quickly had the whole creek rocking as they went bank to bank beside and under our boat. Nobody else was around and I'd never seen or heard of anything like it. Several years later I read that this is a learned behavior unique to the Atlantic bottlenose dolphins in lower SC and GA....we didn't capture it on film but several years later National Geographic came down and shot video.

 

[dirtclod Az.]

I remember seeing that episode a couple of years ago,cool stuff!

 

[elkduds]

I took a pal scouting northwest of Gunnison CO one August. We were sitting on the timbered edge of miles of a sagebrush basin, w a stock pond 100 yds below us. As the sun set, a herd of 20 cows/calves fed down from the timber to the pond. A few calves frolicked in the water, and soon many of the cows joined them. They chased each other around the pond, reared up and splashed each other w both front feet, bucked and spun like rodeo stock. Plenty of elk talk, it was a loud party. We struggled to keep from laughing out loud. Playtime went on as darkness fell, and the sound of their splashing continued as we backed out. My understanding of the lives of elk and other wildlife changed during that magical hour.

 

[Sandpounder]

We went on a tour for those dolphins off of kiawah island, sc a couple years ago. We didn’t see that behavior but one I guess it was an old male came almost close enough to the boat to touch. That was pretty cool. The guide did describe that fishing method and pointed out their favorite spots to do that.