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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (1085)	10/17/2004 7:26:11 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

This happened in a forest, so I guess it's on topic. Last spring I happened across a colony of bank swallows digging their burrows into one of our high coastal bluffs. This led me to a further exploration of the wilder parts of our local coast line... pg.photos.yahoo.com One day I was following a trail in a remote spot along the ridge of an ancient vegetated coastal sand dune. I detoured on a side trail and followed it down off the dune inland to a small clearing in the forest... Kreeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the shriek behind me I whirled around in a daze to see a goshawk pulling out of it's power dive and hurtling straight at my face with outstretched talons! I ducked and the furious critter brushed my shoulder with it's wing as it swooped past. I quickly dove under a nearby spruce tree. The bird swooped by again as I got under the tree, and I knew I was in for a rough time. For the next 20 minutes it dogged me as I dodged from tree to tree back along the bluff to get out of the area. The hawk soared on the upthrust of the wind along the dune, and hunted me from 300 feet up. Gradually I made it out of the hawk's territory, and the attacks ended. But my heart still beating pretty hard from the adrenaline and effort to escape. I found that the best tactic was to start my run while the bird was still climbing out of a dive. Otherwise it was on me in an instant from that height. I also picked up a fallen tree branch and held it over my head for protection. We get several of these attacks locally each year, and I read about someone who needed 10 stitches after being raked by the talons. It was a truly primeval experience to be hunted like that, especially in the dramatic landscape along that old dune. As Winston Churchill once said, there's nothing as exhilarating as being fired at and missed! Northern Goshawk, Accipiter gentilis bcadventure.com

To: Crocodile who wrote (1085)	10/18/2004 3:31:25 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

Croc, you guys have the best lumber in the world. But we've got a "world class" hog industry, so I'm not too sympathetic on this one. I hear the Chinese have been shopping around in Canada, may they'll buy it. Why Canadian farmers would base a business on selling pork to a bunch of lard-butt Americans who have to borrow money to pay for it is beyond me! <g> The world sure has changed. Nobody in the U.S. has to work anymore! We're losing jobs like crazy and now they're shipping my profession to India too. But I was tired of computer programming anyway so I bought some Infosys stock and now a bunch of hard working dudes in India are paying me dividends. Gives me a lot more time to spend in the outdoors.