Thanks for the Deer

[consularrider]

That may be the same fawn I saw about a week ago on Columbia Island near the W&OD 17 milepost. Glad to see it hasn’t wandered onto the GW Parkway yet. Wonder where the mother is?

[ShawnoftheDread]

This weekend I saw a vulture eating a fawn on the side of the road. Not quite the same impact as your sighting.

[Rootchopper]

Last week a saw two fawns between the Memorial and TR bridges. So I think one is the vulture’s meal. No momma to be found anywhere.

[Bilsko]

wow, I was gettin’ all puppies-and-rainbows reading the first couple of posts in this thread. Then things just took a bad turn.

FWIW I also saw a deer. Yesterday, by the Dalecarlia on the CCT.

[rcannon100]

I cant find something from the park service saying it, but it is my understanding that they swim across the potomac – and here particularly they swim to Roosevelt Island. I have seen these deer. I have also seen deer in these parts walking across the frozen potomac. A very weird site to see. Always deer on TR Island.

[video=youtube_share;TzppMkoy7jE]http://youtu.be/TzppMkoy7jE[/video]

[Bilsko]

Reminds me of the Assateague–>Chincoteague Pony swim:
https://www.google.com/search?q=horses+swimming+chincoteague&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=FHAgUOf2OaPM6wH6roCgBA&ved=0CHYQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=1113

[GuyContinental]

A HUGE great horned owl and I scared the bejezus out of each other at dawn this morning on the Colvin Run section of the CCT- beautiful critter, glad I wasn’t towing a toddler, she* might have been looking for breakfast!

*the lady owls are 20% then their menfolk- and this one was the biggest I’ve ever seen

[Bilsko]

This post needs more of this:
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/06/baby-deer-saved.html

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Bilsko 27543 wrote:

This post needs more of this:
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/06/baby-deer-saved.html

Why is that firefighter choking that fawn?

[Tim Kelley]

@ShawnoftheDread 27550 wrote:

Why is that firefighter choking that fawn?

That’s actually OneEigth!

[consularrider]

@GuyContinental 27542 wrote:

A HUGE great horned owl and I scared the bejezus out of each other at dawn this morning on the Colvin Run section of the CCT- beautiful critter, glad I wasn’t towing a toddler, she* might have been looking for breakfast!

*the lady owls are 20% then their menfolk- and this one was the biggest I’ve ever seen

Several riders were treated to a low level fly over yesterday evening at about 6:30. One of the bald eagles flew from Roaches Run across the Hains Point parking lot and over to the Potomac at about 15 to 20 feet of altitude. I also been enjoying the ospreys and great blue herons either on the MVT or along 4 Mile Run. I believe there is also a herd of deer in Barcroft Park, I saw a doe and three fawns there recently about 50 feet west of Walter Reed,

[krazygl00]

@ShawnoftheDread 27405 wrote:

This weekend I saw a vulture eating a fawn on the side of the road. Not quite the same impact as your sighting.

@Bilsko 27467 wrote:

wow, I was gettin’ all puppies-and-rainbows reading the first couple of posts in this thread. Then things just took a bad turn.

FWIW I also saw a deer. Yesterday, by the Dalecarlia on the CCT.

Here, let me help.

This past weekend I was riding behind ShawnoftheDread and I noticed the same vulture eating the fawn on the side of the road. I stopped to get a better look and upon closer inspection I noticed the vulture was actually a bald eagle, and the fawn was actually a fawn-shaped hunk of Tofu, like a Tofurkey but fawn-shaped.

Anyway, when the eagle was done with his Tofawn snack he flew off, and as he did, rainbows shot out of his rear-end!

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