Sunday roadkill report
Aug. 24th, 2008 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyCouple of porcupines -- one fresh, one a pile of quills on the pavement -- and several garter snakes. Dead mammals were both within the first five miles of the route. Rest of pavement bare.
(Note to skeptics: roadkill survey does actually serve a purpose. This provides Wife, and through her the Nature Center, a rough scan of the wildlife population dynamics. Like, skunks aren't getting any smarter. If I see fewer of them dead on the road one year, the population is probably down.)
Fog lifting when I got out on the bike, temperature in the mid 60s F. Clear sky and hot sun by the time I got back, temperature near 80. Headed out across the river and into the hills (I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my sweat . . .), thence upriver to the next bridge and homeward bound. Not-roadkill, one immature bald eagle soaring and flapping along. Wonder if that is the same one I saw yesterday, checking out the music festival for potential prey . . .
41.53 miles, 3:17:02
This brings my total to over 1000 miles for the year.
(Note to skeptics: roadkill survey does actually serve a purpose. This provides Wife, and through her the Nature Center, a rough scan of the wildlife population dynamics. Like, skunks aren't getting any smarter. If I see fewer of them dead on the road one year, the population is probably down.)
Fog lifting when I got out on the bike, temperature in the mid 60s F. Clear sky and hot sun by the time I got back, temperature near 80. Headed out across the river and into the hills (I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my sweat . . .), thence upriver to the next bridge and homeward bound. Not-roadkill, one immature bald eagle soaring and flapping along. Wonder if that is the same one I saw yesterday, checking out the music festival for potential prey . . .
41.53 miles, 3:17:02
This brings my total to over 1000 miles for the year.
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Date: 2008-08-25 01:01 am (UTC)There are also practical applications: where I used to work (grooming dogs) I drove twenty miles from a different direction from most of us. In the spring I counted skunks every day so we could try to predict how many skunked-dog calls we'd get.
Mary Anne in Kentucky