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biker7
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 Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:36 pm |
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 In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 amPosts: 2947Location: Roseville
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I was dive bombed by a red-wing blackbird yesterday on the County Rd C trail.
It banged into the back of my helmet. I must have been near its nest.
Two years ago I was chastised by another bird in that vicinity, whose dead fledgling was on the trail.
That mother stayed near by for a couple of days protecting its dead offspring.
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Vik Strong
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:33 pm |
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 42% more WOTF's than TOTH'sJoined: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:52 pmPosts: 2373Location: Longfellow
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biker7 wrote: I was dive bombed by a red-wing blackbird yesterday on the County Rd C trail.
It banged into the back of my helmet. I must have been near its nest.
no joke. those birds get all kinds of protective. i had 2 hovering above me yesterday when i walked close to their nest. i quickened my pace in the direction i thought was going away from the nest.
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Snak Shak
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:56 pm |
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 Pretends the bricks at St. Anthony Main are the PaveJoined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:35 pmPosts: 2924Location: So.MPLS
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The elusive black squirrel of Minnehaha Parkway:  Black Squirrel by Snak Shak, on Flickr
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kn_mpls
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:06 am |
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 Can't stop soaping my legs in the showerJoined: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:37 pmPosts: 2295Location: NE Mpls - Windom Park
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Johnson Street Turkeys:  They come say hi every time I roll up to the intersection of Johnson and St. Anthony Parkway.
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:27 am |
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 Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:15 amPosts: 7141
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Proximity win!
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JenNastix wrote: You guys ever wonder if we're over-thinking this bike riding thing sometimes? |
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Jerbear
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:58 pm |
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 King of the MountainJoined: Fri May 04, 2007 6:30 amPosts: 1833Location: Lyndale 'hood
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Seen near Lake Calhoun  
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DangHeim
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:52 pm |
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 Can't... stop... doing... the Monkey TagJoined: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:49 amPosts: 1362Location: Como Park
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kn_mpls spied this little guy near St Boni today:  About twenty feet later we spied this guy and assumed he was basking:  Sadly, after I took the picture we noticed the snake was dead.
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jitterjepp
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:27 pm |
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| Super DomestiqueJoined: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:24 pmPosts: 2263
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How about when nature kicks your ass? http://youtu.be/S2oymHHyV1M
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steampunk
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:18 am |
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| Sheldon WannabeJoined: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:50 pmPosts: 153
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Wowza on that Africa collision. He's lucky to have not been gored by those antler horns.
I've had some very close near-miss encounters with bounding whitetail deer, twice while in the same dark trench locale out near Carver Park Reserve/Victoria. Sorry, no pics or video. I'd love to have a camera mounted on my handlebar or front rack with a remote finger trigger device on the handlebar. Anybody know of such a bike arrangement?
I routinely hear the loud drumming and then see the Pileated woodpeckers on the high power poles along the limestone path to Excelsior between 101 and Vine Hill. My digi 3x zoom is insufficient to get a worthwhile shot of those cool, pterodactyl looking crow-sized black/white/red birds with the sharp crest.
Most recently I also heard loud rustling higher up in the tree canopies. I thought I was seeing vultures but I realized it was wild turkeys, roosting. They really suck at aerial finesse, wings noisily crashing through branches and boughs.
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Fanatic
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:11 am |
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TOTH to the beautiful red fox circling the ice rink at Lyndale Farmstead Park this AM.
I wanted to get a picture, but he was too fast.
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biker7
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:35 am |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 amPosts: 2947Location: Roseville
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Saw a coyote trotting across the parking lot of Tony Schmidt Park in Arden Hills.
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RiverRat
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:27 am |
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 Thinks "false flat" means low tire pressureJoined: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:50 amPosts: 337Location: Nordeast
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biker7 wrote: Saw a coyote trotting across the parking lot of Tony Schmidt Park in Arden Hills. I followed one down the trail in the snail lake area one night. I may have used up all the air left in my airzound keeping him and his buddies guessing.
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Snak Shak
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:29 pm |
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| Pretends the bricks at St. Anthony Main are the PaveJoined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:35 pmPosts: 2924Location: So.MPLS
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Huh - I forgot about this one. This toad was waiting for me on the Dakota Trail last summer, somewhere between St. Boni and Mayer. 
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biker7
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:38 am |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 amPosts: 2947Location: Roseville
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RiverRat wrote: biker7 wrote: Saw a coyote trotting across the parking lot of Tony Schmidt Park in Arden Hills. I followed one down the trail in the snail lake area one night. I may have used up all the air left in my airzound keeping him and his buddies guessing. Buddies? Was there a pack? That would have made me turn around and go the other way.
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biker7
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:22 pm |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 amPosts: 2947Location: Roseville
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Last night there was a pack of coyotes making a lot of racket at the edge of our back yard.
When I turned on our yard light the coyotes headed away into the open area nearby.
Our neighbor thought he could make out 6 of them.
He saw what might have been a deer standing very still a few yards away.
He knows of a pack in the Reservoir Woods, but was not sure if this was that pack or the one that lives along County Road C.
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