Outdoor Ontario
Wildlife Reports => Southern Ontario Wildlife => Topic started by: Axeman on July 12, 2021, 04:41:08 PM
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Caught this one up by the side of our road, up in Parry Sound area (McKellar)....
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Oh I was so excited to see it that I rolled the vehicle....I didn't post pic sideways...I was sideways when I took it.
Ummm.....how come pic is sideways?
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Oh I was so excited to see it that I rolled the vehicle....I didn't post pic sideways...I was sideways when I took it.
Ummm.....how come pic is sideways?
Awww, are you alive? And is he?
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lol no I didn't REALLY roll the car....it was a joke about the sideways pic....I don't understand why it's sideways. Bear took off as soon as I backed up to take a better pic.
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I meant from encountering a bear. hahaha . Somehow in my mind bears are more dangerous than Coyote.
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I was surprised at how timid it was particularly in light of its size....and the funny part was it ran into brush and hid behind a bush....peeking out at us...and I'm thinking "You know we can still see you, right?"
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I was surprised at how timid it was particularly in light of its size....and the funny part was it ran into brush and hid behind a bush....peeking out at us...and I'm thinking "You know we can still see you, right?"
Hahahac I am gigling even imagine the scene.
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I guess that bears, at least black bears, are much like politicians that display bare essential behavior. They can’t be trusted and they often hide behind a fenestrated non-sequitur, hoping that we won’t see, or at least we won’t dwell on what they’ve been caught doing. Both are easily frightened. Black bears are easily misled and sometimes run from their shadow. Admittedly that mostly happens when they eat mushrooms. Politicians are afraid of not getting re-elected and sometimes the stuff that comes out of their mouth makes me think that they too have been into the magic mushrooms. Still, you paint an amusing picture of a massive black bear hiding behind shrub. How does the shrub feel about it?
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Ouch lol ummm....
As for the shrub, it was still there last weekend no worse for wear.
Birding up there is a little bit of a let down....
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Birding is bad? I'm stuck in the house. I've checked every room thoroughly ... no birds at all. Heck, I've even checked the woodlot across the street. Dead! I spotted something colourful but couldn't quite see it without stepping through dense verdure. It was just a sign that read "Go back inside loser". So I did. Bird ... just a four letter word.
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Sigh.....I'm sorry. You're right -- and I'm sorry you're stuck inside the house and sorry that the woodlot across the street isn't attracting anything.
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Thanks for your sorrow ... I do so like to wallow in it. It seems to me that if you were any sorrier you would have to write a song about the birding blues. I'd play it all day and I'd play it loud. There seem to be Turkey vultures circling the woodlot across the street ... like I said before .... everything is dead around here. I better check my pulse. Weak and thready, but it's there. I just remembered there is a closet I haven't checked ... maybe there's a bird in there. Probably just more skeletons.
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Well the mystery of the bear has been solved....there was a reason it was hanging out on a lawn in front of a home....the fellow there feeds her...
My instinctual reaction was "what a jerk"...but a little reflection and a few more facts muddied the water....I know I love being able to see wildlife....I'm not above being careless and "accidentally" feeding something....and apparently the fellow is in his 80's and terminally ill.....sigh....
I hope she survives this.
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Axeman, I am going to Parry Sound area this weekend. What areas should I be looking for for eagles and owls?
I lost my two newer cameras during a recent trip in Quebec City. I am debating if I should bring my telephoto lens with an older camera for this trip. If I lost this camera, I will be out of business. :(
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Sorry to hear about your loss. Two cameras at the same time! Did they run away together? That sort of thing remains to be a concern when traveling. I hope that your excursion to Parry Sound works out without another loss. So, if I understand your post correctly, you are asking Axeman, which sound too much like "taxman", to pare sound-advice about raptors. I've been up to Lake Isabella and have NEVER seen an owl, or an eagle. Maybe you should set your sights on the bear essentials at the dump. From what I've seen you may not need to do much searching to find garbage. Even some years ago there was evidence of it everywhere as vacationers migrated ever farther north and did so ever more frequently. Our agent up north may still conjure some sage advice to your benefit. Good luck.
You will share your adventures ... wont you?
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Axeman, I am going to Parry Sound area this weekend. What areas should I be looking for for eagles and owls?
I lost my two newer cameras during a recent trip in Quebec City. I am debating if I should bring my telephoto lens with an older camera for this trip. If I lost this camera, I will be out of business. :(
Sorry to hear about your loss. Hope things will be Okay soon and you get to see eagles and owls this weekend.
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SS and Ally, thanks for your sympathy.
I didn't bring my 100－400mm for fear of losing my head again. I saw a lot of small birds and turkey vultures in my previous trips. Just hope to capture some decent fall colors or landscape shots.
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Charline -- sorry for not responding sooner (although my response is of no value lol)....I could not tell you where to look in the Parry Sound area although there are a number of local parks for a start like Oastler Lake Provincial Park...we have only recently acquired a cottage in the area (mid June) and I'm still getting the lay of the land...that said, I have seen posts on FB from members of the cottage association showing Red Backed Woodpeckers (at a humming bird feeder!) and bald eagles at our lake (Manitouwabing)......from my deck all I get are some jays, ravens (which for me, is very cool)...and lbj's......and I am sorry that you lost your cameras....that sounds painful.....
I took a hike recently on a local trail -- Balsam Trail, near McKellar -- and that was a disaster....I'm glad I had my cell phone and had watched a survival guy recently and had followed a bunch of his tips. I don't suggest Balsam trail...excluding that it nearly ended in disaster for me, it really didn't seem promising.
There are elk a bit north of Parry Sound....next summer I'm hoping to scout them out.
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Thanks for the reply, .No worries, Axeman. It turned out that I took the telephoto lens which should be used with my lost camera. I must be getting too old.
I hiked so much in Parry Sound that my legs were barely mine. I know there were bears on Perry Island.
Here is a photo of the metamorphic rock formation from the trip.
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The Georgian Bay (Muskoka) gneiss is especially impressive, not only because it is photogenic as you have depicted it but also because it represents a very coarse variety of gneiss, probably formed from both pressure and intrusion of magma a billion years ago and now represents worn down mountains. I’ve always wanted to see it but the opportunity to explore it never arrived. The gneiss in Hastings County is finer and contains nepheline (where quartz is sparse) and syenite, while the gneiss up in Haliburton County and Renfrew is also fine grained and contains actinolite crystals. I visited both areas before but never managed the Georgian Bay coastline.
Your photo just reminds me of that fact.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Rbs3ZKT/0/319ab86a/L/i-Rbs3ZKT-L.jpg) (https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-358cgw/i-Rbs3ZKT/A)
Muskoka Gneiss
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Nepheline-rich Gneiss - Hastings County
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Syenite gneiss
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SS, I am glad you have the expertise about the genesis.
When I returned from Quebec, I learned that my friends, a couple, both of whom were geologists, died unexpectedly. The wife was the one who introduced me to the beauty of Georgian Bay. When I returned from Georgian Bay previously , I always shared my photos with her, and she gave me some basic tutoring.
I have been to many areas of Georgian Bay and have a lot of photos of the rock formations. One of my photos was on the cover of Georgian Bay Island National Park years ago.
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That's some nice gneiss! So, you've been published. Way to go. Soon you won't be affiliating yourself with the likes of us while pursuing bigger projects. You know astronomers and geologist? Well, then there is Dinu ... a physicist. I might become an anarchist when I grow up ... if that ever happens.
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Those are some spectacular pix...
I haven't yet explored Perry Island -- I tried to scope it out one day but couldn't find the bridge to it...but your pix have made me determined to check it out next year.