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Thumper74
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 01:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Have you guys noticed more roadkill this year or is it me? It seems like last summer, I rarely remember seeing roadkill this time of year, this year is insane! I’m also seeing a lot more deer running around and have pretty regular close calls. Maybe once a week. Last night though, I saw 8 deer over the course of 6 miles of back roads on the way home from work, all alive and grazing too close to the road for my comfort. It really makes you think hard about riding too fast…
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Ceejay
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 01:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Its a lot wetter around here this year as compared to last, thus they are staying near the roads as they are some of the dryer places(usually higher than the surrounding area)? I haven't really noticed anything down here though. Seems the bug population is less though-possibly again due to the rain and cooler weather.
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Buellinachinashop
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 01:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The only creature overpopulated here is mosquitos. I can't ride my bike 2 miles without having it look like it was Linex'd.
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Thumper74
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 01:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah, it's been cooler, but my bike still looks like butte from bug remains.
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Ceejay
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 01:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

BICS-isn't the mosquito the state bird up that way?
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Buellinachinashop
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 01:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"BICS-isn't the mosquito the state bird up that way?"

State Terodactyl.
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Birdy
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 03:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

James, it's the same way over here. More corn fed deer that you can shake a stick at. Rabbits, Coons, Ground Hogs thicker than flies. And all have to play in the road it seems.

I even had a Goldfinch fly into me last night, He hit me in the boot...no more Goldfinch!

I won't ride at night over here because on the deer. Hitting one in a car bites, but hitting one on a bike could be all she wrote.
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Oldog
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 04:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Not just you Thump, I have seen several here in coastal NC dead on the road the carnage is waaaay worse this year, I have an HID head light so I hope that when I ride after dark that I can see them sooner
(farther away)
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Nevrenuf
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 05:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

buell, our daughter mentioned to us yesterday how bad the skeeters are up there compared to florida. kinda like when we get the love bugs down there i guess.
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Ceejay
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 06:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Funny(sorta)-On my way to pick up my kids there was a deer that ran in front of a honda accord. The deer hit the top of the accord's windsheild looked to go completely over the car and then get hit by another van. both drivers seemed to be OK as I went by but a bit stressed/freaked out, and the deer was definitely dead. It's not often I see it happen in the middle of the afternoon.
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Ulynut
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 08:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Got myself a pretty nice turkey on Memorial day. I hate wildlife.
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Tramp
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 10:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Unreal the explosion of critters, anymore.
My biggest riding nightmares revolve around deer, thankfully the loud, low-pitch sporty mill of my scoot warns 'em in advance.
After periods spent out west, I am always shocked, upon return to NY, by the volume of roadkill we have, here.
The way that roads aren't designed cuts up wildlife movement routes, and deer, etc., find themselves wandering about back & forth across the road- woodchucks are , by far, our most common road-pizza, hitting one can be treacherous.
I feel badly when less common wildlife gets road-whacked, I saw this beautiful male Timber rattler a few years back, alive & coiled, in the minute it took me to slide to a stop and fly back to him, he'd been whacked.

Still tasted great, regardless ...

I scored two tiny fawns, that had been killed by cars ahead of me, in the past week....Their backstraps and hams were a delicacy, as always.



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Jramsey
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 11:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Venison steaks and deep fried rattle snake,two of my favorites yummie lip smakin' good along with mountain oysters and calf brains.
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Thumper74
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 11:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I hit a rabbit last night on the bike.

I knew not to panic and hoped he made it between my tires. He didn't.

I feel bad for'em, but I'm glad it was a deer
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Johnnylunchbox
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 11:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Tramp, same thing happened to me last week in Europe. Was coming down from a mountain pass in the Alps and saw a small snake in the road. I went about 200 yards and turned around and came back to find a squished snake. I believe it was what the Germans call a Kreuzotter, a alpine pit viper. Cool to see some wildlife in the decimated countryside of Europe, but not cool to see it killed.
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Ceejay
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 11:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I was talking with a guy I work with and he saw the same car but the van was gone as well as the deer-thus someone made off with dinner.

rabbit is most excellent too.
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Road_thing
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 11:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Rattlesnake...yum!





rt
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Tramp
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 11:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Watch 'em Prickly pears behind you, there, RT
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Road_thing
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 12:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You got that right--those damn needles get in and break off, then fester for a year or so before they re-surface.

And don't get me started on electric fences...

rt
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Reepicheep
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 12:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Love that paint job.

You need to letter "POW!" and "BANG!" right in the middle of the yellow.
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Tramp
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 12:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"You need to letter "POW!" and "BANG!" right in the middle of the yellow."

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