A Non-Human Interest Story

[TheRealJoeFish]

Y'all know that I like to post about golfing on here, which almost everyone finds boring.  To the casual observer, it is boring! BUT: sometimes you can't help but see something cool:





Ok, quality's really crappy because I couldn't get any closer lest my life be snuffed out, but that's a Momma Bear and three cubs about 90 yards away!

When I got to the 9th green, we saw a bit of a commotion with the group in front of us, and it turns out they were all gathered watching a brown bear (about 6 feet, very decent size) and three cubs chilling in the woods behind the 9th hole.  The cart path went pretty close to them, and when the group in front of us drove their carts back to the clubhouse, the three little bears scampered up a tree and the momma bear started looking around and getting defensive!  So being level-headed young men we hung back until the little bear cubs came down the tree and they all ran off (it turns out they were heading to a dumpster to get food).

But, it was awesome! I don't think I'd ever been that close to a bear before, let alone on with cubs.

So... post some pictures or stories of you interacting with nature?!

[dyresand]

i wish i had my phone i was walking home from my friends house and other times i would
see wolves and other animals in my area including bob cat cubs and even a bob cat. I have seen bears too in my area
i like were i love being sticks is pretty amazing some times.

[brewer]

I would have hit into you for slow play. hehe

[rexbeccarox]

When there was still a garbage dump near my family's camp in the Adirondacks, we used to go watch the bears eating. They used to get crazy close. Think The Great Outdoors.

[Minimalist]

No photo but you did remind me of a joke.

"Bad day at the course," a guy tells his wife. "Charlie had a heart attack on the third hole."
"That's terrible!" she says.
"You're telling me," the husband replies. "All day long, it was hit the ball, drag Charlie."

[ignoramus]

And you guys think Australia is dangerous!
(Just don't go in the water!)

[Thumpalumpacus]

So... post some pictures or stories of you interacting with nature?!

When I worked at the nature preserve, I came across plenty of critters out scouring for their daily bread.

Diamond-backed watersnake. Same snake in both shots:






Ironclad beetle:






Coral snake:




Giant swallow-tail butterfly, at rest and in-flight:






A covey of yellow-eared sliders:




Grey fox:

[Regina]

I hate how dead The UK is. We don't have any real "wildlife" apart from foxes and the odd deer

Well, guess we have the benefit of being very safe from predators here, but it's not very exciting.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Red-striped racer. Yes, in the second shot he's crawling through a porous mineral column and sticking out both ends, the clever bastard:









A couple of the catfish that lived there:






One of our jackalopes:



Another jackrabbit, about a year later:







Juvenile diamond-backed watersnake:

[Thumpalumpacus]

A juvenile cottonmouth (which I almost stepped on!), and an adult:







A pissed-off Western diamondback:





An injured red-eared cooter I found working the entry one day:





Roadrunner -- second shot was outside our entry booth:






Garden spider: