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In the discussion thread: What are some of the coolest animals you've seen in the wild? [View all]

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 03:44 PM

TrogL (31,263 posts)

31. 10000 Canada Geese

I was in the back yard and heard this unearthly noise coming from the North gradually getting louder, then noticed a strange grey cloud moving towards me. It eventually resolved to thousands and thousands of Canada Geese migrating South for the winter. It took the flock about 10 minutes to pass over. 10000 is a wild guess. It could have been even higher

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100 replies	Author	Time	Post
What are some of the coolest animals you've seen in the wild? [View all]	RZM	Apr 2012	OP
Otters. Little guys, but cool.	eppur_se_muova	Apr 2012	#1
Funny you mention otters	RZM	Apr 2012	#2
Looooove the otters.	Arugula Latte	Apr 2012	#40
Otters are one my favorite animals!	emmadoggy	Apr 2012	#65
Buffalo in Yellowstone; also elk there.	CaliforniaPeggy	Apr 2012	#3
I've only seen bison in enclosures	RZM	Apr 2012	#4
We got stuck in a traffic jam for 2 hours in Yellowstone.	obxhead	Apr 2012	#35
Yes, Yellowstone is the best place to make sure you'll see wildlife.	Liberty Belle	Apr 2012	#56
Mountain goats in Lake Louise. Saw a bear in the woods of Quebec as a kid. Saw a moose on a canoe	applegrove	Apr 2012	#5
Saw a blue whale when we were burying my dad at sea (that's what all the whale watching	Flaxbee	Apr 2012	#6
Cool stuff	RZM	Apr 2012	#7
When I was in Central America, I opened my big shutter window, and a guy had a three	crunch60	Apr 2012	#8
Sperm Whale off the coast of Massachusetts	denbot	Apr 2012	#9
A flight of wood storks over the barn	csziggy	Apr 2012	#10
I've seen bald eagles a couple times	RZM	Apr 2012	#11
There were bald eagles living north of us in what used to be plantation	csziggy	Apr 2012	#15
If you want to see more bald eagles,	emmadoggy	Apr 2012	#67
you can see bald eagles every day in winter breeding season in southeast louisiana	pitohui	Apr 2012	#88
My husband saw a bald eagle perched in a tree	yellerpup	Apr 2012	#85
There was an Alvin Show episode that sounds just like that	Art_from_Ark	May 2012	#90
Eagles spark excitement wherever they go.	yellerpup	May 2012	#93
bison, bears, and a wolf in yellowstone	fishwax	Apr 2012	#12
We regularly have raccoons, fox and deer in our yard	woodsprite	Apr 2012	#13
I saw a pink spoonbill at a refuge in FL (image dialup warning)	alphafemale	Apr 2012	#14
Actually any	pipi_k	Apr 2012	#16
On a cruise in southeast Alaska (dialup warning)	blaze	Apr 2012	#17
Great pics!	RZM	Apr 2012	#23
gorgeous photos! Are they yours?	Flaxbee	Apr 2012	#25
Thanks Flaxbee!	blaze	Apr 2012	#60
HEY!	annabanana	Apr 2012	#47
:)	blaze	Apr 2012	#61
Wow.....what a great question.....and such a tough one to answer......	Gato Moteado	Apr 2012	#18
A male Pileated Woodpecker.	HopeHoops	Apr 2012	#19
beautiful!	stuntcat	Apr 2012	#39
I thought I didn't have much, but I've seen one of those!	Rhiannon12866	Apr 2012	#54
We have a family of pileated woodpeckers in our backyard. They had a baby last year	GOPonziconz	Apr 2012	#80
Beavers.	bluedigger	Apr 2012	#20
Saw hippos in the river from a distance when I was in Central Africa..	undeterred	Apr 2012	#21
That's pretty cool	RZM	Apr 2012	#22
The people I was staying with had a pretty good sense of how to observe	undeterred	Apr 2012	#24
Hippos on land at night ate very dangerous.	Lucky Luciano	Apr 2012	#43
Yeah, everything is dangerous at night...	undeterred	Apr 2012	#49
I'll agree with that. nt	Lucky Luciano	Apr 2012	#50
Most of the time However I remember	lunasun	Apr 2012	#75
emergency car trouble>camp had to be done in area hippos crossed at night!	lunasun	Apr 2012	#74
Peregrine Falcons	Mendocino	Apr 2012	#26
A Great Snowy Owl	TrogL	Apr 2012	#27
10000 Canada Geese	TrogL	Apr 2012	#31
Had a full grown bobcat jump on the hood of my Jeep.	bluesbassman	Apr 2012	#28
A grizzly bear, a lynx, a mountain lion	cliffordu	Apr 2012	#29
Vicuñas in South America.	Cleita	Apr 2012	#30
Bears, moose, foxes, coyotes,	The Velveteen Ocelot	Apr 2012	#32
A bear...in his natural habitat...	FailureToCommunicate	Apr 2012	#33
Definitely when I went on safari in Africa at the Londolozi Game Reserve	Lucky Luciano	Apr 2012	#34
I'm a city boy. Giant rats in the subway.	MrSlayer	Apr 2012	#36
I live in St Paul, so it's a pretty big list	Generic Brad	Apr 2012	#37
I saw the wild parrots in San Francisco	stuntcat	Apr 2012	#38
There was a film about that ... I never saw it, but I'd like to:	Arugula Latte	Apr 2012	#42
That was what made me want to go find them!	stuntcat	Apr 2012	#45
We've had up to 50 wild parrots in our yard.	Liberty Belle	Apr 2012	#57
Skunks are precious!	stuntcat	Apr 2012	#71
I saw about five of these in a tree in Costa Rica one time ... Quetzal birds:	Arugula Latte	Apr 2012	#41
Absolutely gorgeous.	Baitball Blogger	Apr 2012	#44
Got to see only one fly by in Monteverde cloud forest I think in CR	lunasun	Apr 2012	#76
Yes, that's where we were when we saw them, in Monteverde.	Arugula Latte	Apr 2012	#89
I like animals that cross that line and begin to accept you as part of the landscape.	Baitball Blogger	Apr 2012	#46
Armadillos and Horny Toads	Xipe Totec	Apr 2012	#48
I always wanted to see a bear.	NCTraveler	Apr 2012	#51
I saw 13 bears on a 2 week trip to Alaska.	Liberty Belle	Apr 2012	#58
That sounds great.	NCTraveler	Apr 2012	#59
I had to rescue a busload of Japanese tourists from a bear	TrogL	Apr 2012	#87
I would not like to find myself next to a mother and her cubs in the wild.	NCTraveler	May 2012	#94
A Cobra In Kenya	DallasNE	Apr 2012	#52
orca, Humpback whales, marlin, manta rays	AsahinaKimi	Apr 2012	#53
Bears and moose in Alaska, elephant seals at a CA beach	Liberty Belle	Apr 2012	#55
Once, I saw a Luna Moth	sulphurdunn	Apr 2012	#62
I saw one of these critters once	Botany	Apr 2012	#63
Orcas in the San Juan islands	Major Nikon	Apr 2012	#64
Standing in my front yard, I saw a murder of crows chasing off a bald eagle.	siligut	Apr 2012	#66
Humpback whale and her baby.	avebury	Apr 2012	#68
A platypus....while camping in a National Park in Australia	livetohike	Apr 2012	#69
Big red kangaroos in full flight...just amazing...and so seemingly effortless	SwissTony	Apr 2012	#70
Dolphins	KamaAina	Apr 2012	#72
American salt water crocodile.	earthbone	Apr 2012	#73
Cougar tops the mammal list	XemaSab	Apr 2012	#77
I saw a Kori Bustard in Namibia. It made me think of a pteroactyl and it's the largest flying bird	GOPonziconz	Apr 2012	#78
Red-tailed hawk	sakabatou	Apr 2012	#79
When I was in college...	Fearless	Apr 2012	#81
If it lives within the borders of Alaska, I've seen it.	Arctic Dave	Apr 2012	#82
Top of my list	oleander hawkmoth	Apr 2012	#83
A small flock of wild turkeys.	yellerpup	Apr 2012	#84
Polar bears in Churchill and around Hudson Bay.	sinkingfeeling	Apr 2012	#86
Elk, horny toad, and baby bob cat.	lonestarnot	May 2012	#91
Close encounter as a teenager with a great horned owl	JCMach1	May 2012	#92
wild animals	byeya	May 2012	#95
Mink..	4_TN_TITANS	May 2012	#96
Elephant in Kenya, hippos in SA, leopards in Congo	oneshooter	May 2012	#97
Just the other evening I got to see a scissortail up close	Sentath	May 2012	#98
There's a half-man half-gator who lives in the Gotham sewers	Bruce Wayne	May 2012	#99
Whales from a catamaran off Hawaii - course they were not very close	benld74	May 2012	#100

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