On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:55:53 -0700, Rune Allnor wrote:> Hi all. > > This morning, just before 6AM, I was hovering in that stage where one > does not really know if one is still asleep or have started to wake up. > I noticed a noise outside my bedroom window, but didn't really take much > notice, but then I heard the noise again. I couldn't make sense out > of it, but it sounded like whatever it was, was not far away. > > So I took a peak out -- only to see one ~3-year-old moose nibbling away > on the sticks of hedge-to-be which have started peaking out from the > snow some 4 meters from my window. My first reaction was to grab my > mobile phone and take a picture of the animal. That accomplished, > I got up and went to the kitchen and living room to get a better view. > As well as better pictures, with my ordinary camera. > > The moose had moved in the minute or so I had spent getting to the > better vantage point; it was nowhere to be seen. But there were another > moose standing in the garden just across the road, nibbling away on the > dry bushes and plants. A few minutes later, the first moose reappears, > walking past the second one, and all of a sudden stands still. There a > third moose comes out of yet another garden, getting into the road to > greet the other. After a while (10-15 minutes) feeding on some birches, > the three of them decides to move to fresh pastures. As they do, the > fourth moose comes out from somewhere. > > As this goes on, I shoot pictures and video the best I can, but > eventually > I just leave it. Three of the mooses decide to feed on some bushes just > below the living room window, and spend some 30 minutes on that. > Eventually, around 7:30AM, they decide to turn in for the day, and all > four of them lay down in the garden next-door. > > They stayed for another hour, till I decided to scare them away from the > area before the kids got out to play. A very nice morning indeed. > > RuneThat's odd. When I see deer in my garden I think of venison stew, and I regret the fact that I don't hunt and that you can only rarely go after does in Oregon (the bucks stay away from populated areas, for some odd reason). -- Tim Wescott Control systems and communications consulting http://www.wescottdesign.com Need to learn how to apply control theory in your embedded system? "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" by Tim Wescott Elsevier/Newnes, http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
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OT: A wake-up call less ordinary
Started by ●March 26, 2008
Reply by ●March 26, 20082008-03-26
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On 26 Mar, 15:59, Andor <andor.bari...@gmail.com> wrote:> On 26 Mrz., 15:53, Jim Thomas <jtho...@bittware.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Rune Allnor wrote: > > > On 26 Mar, 15:00, Jim Thomas <jtho...@bittware.com> wrote: > > >> Rune Allnor wrote: > > >>> So I took a peak out -- only to see one ~3-year-old moose nibbling > > >>> away > > >> By "moose" do you mean Alces alces? > > > > Yes. > > > >> �Alces alces is a generally solitary > > >> animal, so it surprises me that you would see four together. > > > > Well, there has been one cow with year-old calf in this > > > area for some time now; I am quite certain they were among > > > the four. > > > > As for the others, one kept a certain distance from the others > > > and did not really join the uthers until they lay down to > > > rest, while the last one looked like a confused two-year-old. > > > > Coming to think of it, it might actually have been a cow with > > > several litters of offspring. > > > > The mooses one sees close together at this time of year > > > are usually mother with year-old calf. But it is not all that > > > uncommon to see several animals in an area. On the occations > > > I have seen moose, seeing one solitary animal is the exception. > > > > Rune > > > When can we expect to see your pictures? > > Yeah, pictures! I'd really like to see Rune chasing around four mooses > (meese?).Not at all dramatic. I just walked around the corner towards where they were, and let them know I was there. I talked a little bit to them, and they left very calmly. These animals are not too fond of human presence, so knowing there was people around was enough to make them want to leave. Once I had made my presence known it took them 10-15 minutes to leave the area very calmly. And yes, these animals are big enough for me not taking any chances with them; they are of a size similar to horses. Rune
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:55:53 -0700 (PDT), Rune Allnor <allnor@tele.ntnu.no> wrote:>This morning, just before 6AM, I was hovering in that stage where one >does not really know if one is still asleep or have started to wake >up.Thanks for the story and I'm looking forward to the pix. Meanwhile, here's a relevant video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMf8ysOL6YM I'm interested in the song, and cant' even tell which language is used. Eric Jacobsen Minister of Algorithms Abineau Communications http://www.ericjacobsen.org
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On Mar 26, 11:00�am, Rune Allnor <all...@tele.ntnu.no> wrote:> On 26 Mar, 15:53, Jim Thomas <jtho...@bittware.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Rune Allnor wrote: > > > On 26 Mar, 15:00, Jim Thomas <jtho...@bittware.com> wrote: > > >> Rune Allnor wrote: > > >>> So I took a peak out -- only to see one ~3-year-old moose nibbling > > >>> away > > >> By "moose" do you mean Alces alces? > > > > Yes. > > > >> �Alces alces is a generally solitary > > >> animal, so it surprises me that you would see four together. > > > > Well, there has been one cow with year-old calf in this > > > area for some time now; I am quite certain they were among > > > the four. > > > > As for the others, one kept a certain distance from the others > > > and did not really join the uthers until they lay down to > > > rest, while the last one looked like a confused two-year-old. > > > > Coming to think of it, it might actually have been a cow with > > > several litters of offspring. > > > > The mooses one sees close together at this time of year > > > are usually mother with year-old calf. But it is not all that > > > uncommon to see several animals in an area. On the occations > > > I have seen moose, seeing one solitary animal is the exception. > > > > Rune > > > When can we expect to see your pictures? > > Ah! Sorry, I don't have anywhere to post them. I've postponed > getting a web site for years already; old habit is hard to > turn... > > Rune- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -I think you can set up a photobucket account where you have a free time period at the start. Clay p.s. I have a lot of critters around my place - horses, foxes, pheasants, skunks, etc. But no mooses (meese?)
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clay@claysturner.com wrote:> ... mooses (meese?)Moose. Like deer, fish, and elk. Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
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the only time i ever got to commune with moose was when my wife and i were hiking, backpacking, and camping at Russell Pond in Baxter State Park in Maine. it's not too uncommon for some suburban residential areas to be visited by deer, but moose is more uncommon. perhaps one can move back to northern Maine, but getting decent work up there would be a bitch. could be a good place to retire (if one likes snow in the winter and likes to heat with wood). r b-j
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On 26 Mar, 18:00, Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacob...@ieee.org> wrote:> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:55:53 -0700 (PDT), Rune Allnor > > <all...@tele.ntnu.no> wrote: > >This morning, just before 6AM, I was hovering in that stage where one > >does not really know if one is still asleep or have started to wake > >up. > > Thanks for the story and I'm looking forward to the pix. � Meanwhile, > here's a relevant video: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMf8ysOL6YM > > I'm interested in the song, and cant' even tell which language is > used.Funny song - brilliant performance! The language is almost certainly Finnish. I can't remember off the top of my head if there are any Finnish regulars here who might enlighten us about what this might be? Rune
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On Mar 26, 3:12�pm, Rune Allnor <all...@tele.ntnu.no> wrote:> On 26 Mar, 18:00, Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacob...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:55:53 -0700 (PDT), Rune Allnor > > > <all...@tele.ntnu.no> wrote: > > >This morning, just before 6AM, I was hovering in that stage where one > > >does not really know if one is still asleep or have started to wake > > >up. > > > Thanks for the story and I'm looking forward to the pix. � Meanwhile, > > here's a relevant video: > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMf8ysOL6YM > > > I'm interested in the song, and cant' even tell which language is > > used. > > Funny song - brilliant performance! > > The language is almost certainly Finnish. I can't remember > off the top of my head if there are any Finnish regulars > here who might enlighten us about what this might be? > > Runeproblems with moose eating your bushes? isn't that what hedge funds are for? Mark
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Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacobsen@ieee.org> writes:> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:55:53 -0700 (PDT), Rune Allnor > <allnor@tele.ntnu.no> wrote: > > >>This morning, just before 6AM, I was hovering in that stage where one >>does not really know if one is still asleep or have started to wake >>up. > > Thanks for the story and I'm looking forward to the pix. Meanwhile, > here's a relevant video: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMf8ysOL6YM > > I'm interested in the song, and cant' even tell which language is > used. > Eric Jacobsen > Minister of Algorithms > Abineau Communications > http://www.ericjacobsen.orgThis might help: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1738842995641330414 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loituma Scott -- Scott Hemphill hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu "This isn't flying. This is falling, with style." -- Buzz Lightyear
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On Mar 26, 2:42�pm, Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> wrote:> c...@claysturner.com wrote: > > ... mooses (meese?) > > Moose. Like deer, fish, and elk. > > Jerry > -- > Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. > �����������������������������������������������������������������������I was having fun. On the other hand a group of fish can be described as fishes if you have multiple species within the group. Since a moose is a member of the deer family, we don't get to say mooses. But mongoose can pluralize to mongeese or mongooses. Gotta love the language ;-) Clay
