What about wildlife, specifically a lizard when mowing? This one rode on my mower a few weeks back for the entire job, got video with the mower running and it clinging to the clipping collector bag.. Dismounted as soon as I was done and got on wit its life...


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We've had so much rain & heat that one area I had to mow had baby toads jumping as I slowly mowed ... after waiting for the bunny ears to git gone outta the talk grass :).

Most of what I get as a ride along around here is grasshoppers.
I always give the zero turn a good luck to ensure that there are no snakes when I sit down and start her up.
THere's a field next to us that's about 15acres. It is used for hay. We've had good rain so far this year. The other day the grass in the field was over 6' tall. They came and cut it last week. After they cut the grass, the field is generally full of vultures and carion birds for ~36 hours. I assume it's mostly rats and snakes. I've seen birds eating snakes after. I suppose it's possible that there could be bunnies too, althought we don't have many of those around here. WHen we moved in and part of our property was deep grass, I never saw bunnies, but I saw lots of rats.

The only wildlife i see are the ones that dont care: stubborn mountain goats that end my ride just as its getting good.

I once came around a corner and there were two mule deer about 10’ off the trail. Huge! Glowered at me and slowly walked off through the salal.

Ive heard the ack-ack-ack of cougar mating call. Didnt know what it was, thought it was a really liud bird. Cougars everywhere here. Friend and i got followed by a young one for about a mile down a logging road. It was acting weird, like it wanted to play. It was doing high leaps to pounce on random dandelions and rolling in the grass, finally took off because we were boring. Could it have been doing the ‘clever girl’ distraction from jurrasic park?

Same deer as in post#1?

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About a quarter of my acre lawn is white dutch clover. Every morning there are 3 or 4 bunnies out there chowing down on it.

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certainly not the most graceful.

I've been surprised by how few bunnies there are at our place. I didn't see any for the first year or two although someone said that they saw one. I did eventually see one and have seen a bunny 5-10 times over the past year or two. We have lots of critters on our property. I'm assuming the fact that we have the occasional domestic cat, gray foxes, coyote, and lots of various birds of prey keep the bunny population WAY down.

^^^ Yes, fox are a main predator of rabbit....around here anyways.

Years ago, we had a strong fox population. They started offering a bounty on them...$5 each. We trapped and shot them as teenagers for the money.

Now, the fox are almost gone and the rabbits are thriving.

My scariest wildlife encounter biking was a deer. A large buck with a full rack running at full speed being chased out of a yard by a dog. The timing was perfect, just as I was riding by it leaped over a 6' cyclone fence and right over my head. I was probably 3' feet from the fence and it cleared me easily although I did feel the wind.

At Brazos Bend State Park there are usually gators along the bike trails.
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I keep a GoPro under my bike seat so that if I get run off the road, folks can get the license plate of the car that did it.:rolleyes: Great for wild life that I have passed.
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A crayfish out in the mid day sun.

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An osprey fishing from a bridge I crossed.
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Passed two deer today while riding through the park.
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