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Never in all my years of living here in the Pacific Northwest (granted was away for a decade plus) have I ever heard of a cougar blatantly aggressively attacking an adult human and killing them but it has happened and has quite a few here really shook up.
Not quite sure why this particular cougar opted to stalk and attack and kill a mountain bike cyclist but it happened and sure has everybody quite jumpy here now.
Personally I'm going with a theory that the cat was old, starving OR really young & starving and therefore looking for whatever it figured it could take down. Am thinking it was more a random happening than something that is going to regularly happen here now (but am thinking I'm the only one thinking this!)
Maybe I'm getting old and jaded or ? BUT is it my imagination or are the actual news events of the world getting worse? Is it just that we now have better reporting so more 'events' (no matter how...
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Sometimes I get that feeling that in the near future I'll wake up one day and zip zap wham bam and thank you ma'am the world will be gone!
It would be good to hear what wildlife everyone encounters in a day......today I was at a friends for coffee and took these - one was a cheeky squirrel enjoying an apple! and the other was a ?great...
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I haven't been here for a long time but I love these photos! Great idea for a post Jewel!
As I was out this afternoon in the garden I was 'attacked'!!!! AGHHHHHHHHH - out of the blue and out of the sky down onto me came one of our indigenous wildlife members - a tree frog. Not too sure...
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My guess is that your Toad is actually a Frog, very nice picture by the way :up
It is hard to tell from just one shot, but Frogs have a smoother wet skin than Toads which are dry and warty, Frogs...
Sitting in the very welcome sunshine,in the 'back yard' this afternoon, everything was looking green and new, at last, and I was reminded of Frank Loesser's song, Spring Will Be A Little Late This...
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I'm never bored hearing about the foxes so feel free to comment about them anytime. Those are definitely quite comparison photos Grandad - wow! Definitely was a runt or not doing too well at all....