In California I once wasted fifteen minutes with a guy from the east coast who was sure he’d seen a giant blue bird the size of … well he couldn’t tell me exactly because he didn’t know how big the standard ‘sizing’ birds are – sparrow, robin, crow … I knew he’d seen a Steller’s Jay, they are everywhere in that area, but I didn’t have any picture of one with me. He was not about to be convinced they aren’t gigantic, just dramatic.
But often the Moon is not visible during daylight hours.
Not a Great Blue Heron then? Those things are huge.
We get coyotes just trotting down the street. We used to get skunks, possums, and trash pandas in our back yard, but our asshole neighbor traps and kills them.
He kept saying it was in the forest. And then, Great Blue Herons are not really blue, and he emphasized the blue part. But hell, maybe it was. Always hard to figure out what people are describing when they lack any training in looking at it.
I have spotted a whooping crane in the wild, in the Horicon Marsh. It was hanging out with a bunch of sandhill cranes, and made them look small.
I even contacted the folks at the nearby International Crane Foundation, and they told me “yes, that’s Nougat. He’s a renegade who left the flock out by us (in Baraboo)”.
To me, sighting him in the wild like that was notable.
He just left the circus, I guess.
Heh. Good pick up!
But here’s Nougat’s original home just outside Baraboo: https://savingcranes.org/
It’s an amazing place to visit, dozens of different types of cranes from around the world are there.
That explains the name you have chosen for this board. Cows are like geese in this sense, only heftier. Thankfully, they don’t fly.
Nice marmot.
That’s how you can tell they’re Canadian Canada geese.
Obviously you’re not a gopher.
We do get a little excited about bears which you don’t see every day but they are far from uncommon. Well, my dog sure does.
Once in a while, people will swear, and even present photographic evidence, that they saw a pterodactyl.
Folks, those are pelicans.
Okay, baby pterodactyls. They aren’t that wrong.
Knew a guy who had spent his entire life within the confines of Louisiana and Southeast Texas. His first flight was a business trip to Southern California where I drove him to a beachfront restaurant. All during the trip, he was gawking at the “mountains” and asking things like if people would need oxygen at the peaks. These were the local rolling hills which couldn’t have been more than 1000 feet max. He’d never seen anything like it before.
On the other hand, I remember freaking out driving from Houston to Galveston because there was nothing but horizon as far as the eye could see. It felt completely disorienting to not have any way to reference where you were or where you were heading. To them, that was the normal.
Yeh, it’s so weird spending your life depending on “Ocean to the West, Mountains to the East”, and moving to the “Which Way’s Which?” flatlands.
You just keep your eye on the Sun and time of day, and you’re perfectly okay.
View of my office building:
That looks just like where I went to school in Northwest Ohio. Flat as a board.
Yeah, we get those too. They have broken into both my and my wifes cars 2-3 times. Out side of some scratches and muddy foot prints, no real damage. If you see the doors of your car open, be cautious. A bear could still be inside.
The recommendation is to NOT lock your car, they’ll just rip the door handle off.
They have also ripped the door off the shed twice. I have since reinforced it with oak, seems to help.
My house faces a rather uniform horizon too. For me, east is always water, west is land.
I looked down and saw a waffle on my breakfast plate this morning.
I almost never see that.
Who am I to argue?
The big problem? Diabetic (aka: nasty) syrup or fruit? I chose strawberries and bananas. For once I was correct.