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Shizzy
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 Can't... stop... doing... the Monkey TagJoined: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:22 amPosts: 1369Location: Regina
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did a dry run of my new commute yesterday morning and while taking a water and Clif bar break on 45th and Portland I sat and watched a little blue gray colored woodpecker bonk around a snaggly looking tree on the boulevard. 8AM on a Sunday and it was just him and me. Pretty cool.
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mjuv
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 7:16 am |
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 Fender BenderJoined: Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:57 amPosts: 102Location: Anchorage, AK
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A few of my wildlife encounters by bike since January in Anchorage, AK. (I still feel the MPLS Bike Love, so I hope you don't mind a recent MN expat from posting) I've probably averaged 3 moose sightings a week biking to the office and around town. In most cases, if you were drunk/high enough you could go up and pet 'em. Makes for a thrilling commute! I can't wait for the brown & black bears to wake up in a couple weeks and start using the trails too  My closest encounter so far was at 6AM, pitch dark, on the forested Campbell Creek Trail into work. My headlamp lit up my breath fog, so I didn't see a sleeping moose only a foot from the trail until I was literally right next to it. I nearly pissed my long underwear...but she didn't bother getting up to stomp me and instead just watched me go by. Uff da!! Went around a bend in the trail, and this little guy was waiting for me.  As I was taking his picture, he decided to come in for a closer look   Late afternoon ride to the grocery store in downtown Anchorage  Chester Creek Trail downtown Anchorage   Couple days ago on the Campbell Creek Trail near my office 
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biker7
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| Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:49 pm |
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 In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 amPosts: 2949Location: Roseville
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Those close-encounter-with-moose pictures are amazing! Here are some pigeons discussing why Goose Lake Road is not named after them.  
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biker7
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:05 pm |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 amPosts: 2949Location: Roseville
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Watch out for low flying ducks on the Diagonal Trail. They were coming straight at me about one foot off of the ground but pulled up when they saw me. Maybe, they were trying to "run under the radar". (The trees over arch the trail.)
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steel4feel612mn
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:43 pm |
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 In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:33 amPosts: 261Location: Playing in traffic.
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Moo. North of Columbia Golf Course, Nordeast 
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2fast4love
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| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:09 pm |
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 Rides in bad weather just to taunt those who won'tJoined: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:24 pmPosts: 1465Location: longfellow
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mjuv
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:45 am |
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| Fender BenderJoined: Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:57 amPosts: 102Location: Anchorage, AK
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The bears are awake up here in Anchorage and enjoy the trails as much as we do. A fellow cyclist caught this pic only a few hours before I passed by the same location . I didn't see them, but I'm probably just not used to the feeling of BEING a rolling lunch wagon and watching for predators. I'll be riding that trail again this weekend with my eyes peeled, camera at the ready, and bear spray holstered...somewhere. No brown bear sightings reported on the trails...yet. Apparently a cyclist has been taken down by one each season for the last couple of years. *attaches dinner bell to handlebars*  Campbell Creek Trail/Rovers Run Black Bears - 2011.04.13 by randoriva, on Flickr
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mn_rando_guy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:58 pm |
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 Sometimes worries that steel is not realJoined: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:18 amPosts: 1045Location: The great West of Colorado
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Was riding the local greenway in our town here in Colorado and in field full of some type of greenery, there were 2 heads geese sticking out, so they looked like floating geese heads. Next time, I will try for a pic.
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bc3
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| Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 10:14 pm |
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 Secret: wants a tall bikeJoined: Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:06 amPosts: 422Location: South Minneapolis - Central
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Saw a coyote near/on the Fort Snelling bike trail, near the Bureau of Mines entrance.
I was walking my dog north on the bike trail, coming up to the intersection that leads both into the Bureau of Mines and into the dog park, the one with the totem poll, when I saw this dog come up from the dog park trail.
Turns out it was not a dog, but a big, beautiful coyote with a huge bushy tail.
We looked each other in the eye, from about 30 feet, and then it took off up the bike trail about 50 feet and went into the woods on the west side of the trail, towards the Bureau of Mines area, silent as a ghost.
Very cool. About as tall as my German Shepherd, but all legs, tail. Very lithe. Beautiful animal, so graceful. Made my day. Hope to see it again and get a photo.
Bill.
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Reverborama
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:28 pm |
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 Has entire BMX Bandits catalogJoined: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:36 amPosts: 4251Location: Hopkins
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At about 9pm I saw a fox with a rabbit in its mouth here. On North Cedar Lake Trail in SLP right by the ballfields at Aquilla park. I stopped about 20 feet away from it. It dropped the rabbit and stared at me for a minute. I got out the phone for a picture but it was so dark nothing came out -- cheap phone with no flash. It wasn't aggressive or anything. Just waited for me to leave, picked up the rabbit and trotted into the bushes.
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Jerbear
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 King of the MountainJoined: Fri May 04, 2007 6:30 amPosts: 1833Location: Lyndale 'hood
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Coyote or fox? Seen on the service road between 2nd St SE and the river. 
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biker7
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:11 am |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 amPosts: 2949Location: Roseville
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Judging by the color, a very mangey fox. Did you see it running? Apparently the fox runs with its tail pointing straight back while a coyote keeps its tail down.
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Snak Shak
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:49 am |
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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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I'd say coyote. Foxes generally show more white on their undercarriage and they are pretty small. That looks pretty big, but it's hard to tell in that photo.
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kn_mpls
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:17 am |
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 Can't stop soaping my legs in the showerJoined: Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:37 pmPosts: 2296Location: NE Mpls - Windom Park
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I'm going to go with a fox because of the orange coat and dark feet.
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jitterjepp
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:57 pm |
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| Super DomestiqueJoined: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:24 pmPosts: 2263
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Definitely a fox for the same reasons listed above.
The tail alone is enough to tell.
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