Friday, April 25, 2014

I finally got to meet the new local moose






Moose have been edging closer to my neighborhood for over a decade now.  Last fall, I saw a moose in the outskirts of Nederland.

In the last few weeks I talked to a number of people that saw a moose and her yearling in the neighborhood.  While taking my cat Chloe for a walk, I saw a moose droppings 200 yards from the house.

But this afternoon, while walking on the trail on Winiger Ridge, I came face to face with momma moose and her yearling.  She was by a grove of aspen, only a hundred feet away.

Right after I stopped to watch, a jogger and her 2 dogs came up the trail too. It was a tense stand off between the moose and us for about a minute.  Then, momma moose decided to back off and head deeper  into the north sloping woods.

That's a good thing, because moose are even a bit bigger and more imposing than elk.  The same moose went chasing after a friend who was on a mountain bike, on the same trail. Don't mess with a momma moose.

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