Animal sightings along MVT

[KLizotte]

@Megabeth 18223 wrote:

We saw those turkeys, too!

Mark went over to take a picture. I don’t think the lady turkeys were impressed with his dance, either…

They would have been much more impressed by the very rare, but flamboyant, Anascotian Flamingo….He could have shown this turkey a thing or two,…

(an inside joke to all of you scratching your heads)

[Megabeth]

Indeed. The Wild Anacostian Flamingo has now become the Tamed Arlington Backyard Flamingo….

[MCL1981]

A turtle, possibly the same one, was trying to cross this morning. It was sitting in the middle of the northbound lane waiting to get run over by one of us commuters. So I did the noble thing, stopped my bike with all it’s blinkies on to help the turtle cross the trail. A number of other people stopped to watch, or because I was totally in their way. Well let me tell you, this thing was one ungrateful little bastard. All it did was hiss and snap at me the whole time. Had my fingers been close enough, I’m sure it would have tried to take a few off.

Next time, the little bastard can just sit there and take his chances with bike wheels.

[Tim Kelley]

Don’t worry. It could be worse!

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[MCL1981]

@Tim Kelley 18332 wrote:

Don’t worry. It could be worse!

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Ok. Yes. I would have to have a shotgun rack on my bike if I lived in FL.

[CCrew]

@MCL1981 18341 wrote:

Ok. Yes. I would have to have a shotgun rack on my bike if I lived in FL.

Naa

[consularrider]

This morning I watched an osprey take a dive and make a strike in Four Mile Run opposite the Waste Water Treatment Plant. This time it missed and came up empty taloned.

[DaveK]

@MCL1981 18341 wrote:

Ok. Yes. I would have to have a shotgun rack on my bike if I lived in FL.

You get issued one with your car registration and most people are packing CCW anyway…

[consularrider]

Not on the MVT, but close enough. Heading home last night along Four Mile Run an osprey was cruising over the stream while a great blue heron flew up from near the water treatment plant outflow. Then across the run there was an immature bald eagle sitting on one of the sports field lights. All this within a couple hundred feet! As others have said, I’d never have seen it if I was driving to work.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Saw these nice families on the tow path this morning…they didn’t seem to mind me being there, except when I got a little close, then they hissed at me.

[KLizotte]

This evening I saw a fox on the lawn of the American Horticultural Society on the road that parallels the GW Parkway and MVT south of Belle Haven. Since I approached quietly on the bike he didn’t even seem to know I was there but then a big truck came up behind me and frightened him (or her) away before I was able to get a photo.

[MCL1981]

This video is mildly related, since the MVT is right next to the channel, and it involves mad geese. I was kayaking in Boundary Channel near Columbia Island Marina on Saturday when I had a hostile encounter. I had the camera on the deck facing the bow. I wish I had it on my head mount.

Hostile soviet geese attack. Evasive maneuvers!!!

[Rootchopper]

I saw a beautiful downy egret in the swampy land south of the Slaters Lane apartments. No pix because my camera is broken.

[baiskeli]

@Rootchopper 18807 wrote:

I saw a beautiful downy egret in the swampy land south of the Slaters Lane apartments. No pix because my camera is broken.

Snowy egret you mean?

[txgoonie]

Turkey vulture along the MVT a bit north of Humpback Bridge. Man, that is a big bird! I got a good sense of it b/c he was right next to the trail and sorta hopped along with me as I ran. I must have looked pretty tired :-s

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