Why did the (blank) cross the road?
My day at the office begins at 5 a.m. a few of days a week and since I live about 30 minutes away, I'm out of the house well before dawn.
I often see animals on the secondary roads I take into Portland but this morning it was like wildlife central. Luckily I avoided hitting anything (well, everything that wasn't already dead).
Mile 1: A possom scuttling across the road.
Mile 3: A dead skunk I smelled long before I actually saw it.
Mile 8: A slow moving racoon that crossed the road and required a quick stop to avoid hitting.
Mile 9: A deer that lept about 20 feet in front of my car before running into the woods.
Mile 13: Another freshly dead skunk with a potent aroma.
Mile 15: A racoon walking along the dirt shoulder.
My nerves were a little frayed by the time I got to work in my attempts to avoid killing anything or getting into an accident. The kids of course we disappointed they missed it all when I told them about it.
Have others see a lot of roadside wildlife lately? Must be the seasons changing.
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We caught a northern short-tailed shrew in one of our humane mouse traps ... inside the house! The shrew is a totally new sighting. I didn't even know shrews lived in Maine ;). We thought, at first, it was a mutant, eye-less mouse :).
Unfortunately, we've noticed too many unfortunates lining the roadways recently. Seems animals and cars don't play well together.
Some would blame the recent increase in Maine's animal popultation on global warming.
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Wendy B.September 24, 2006 01:25 PM
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