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When I was a kid, I used to get up early before the rest of the family and sit in my favorite wingback armchair and read Edgar Allan Poe. He used to love to describe ponds as "tarns". They were always bleak and dismal. Our slough in the back reminded me of Poe today, it was a dreary day.
The crook back trees added to the gloom.
In spite of the gray skies and spooky forest, there were some interesting things in the woods. At first I noticed the various interesting forms of tree funghi. These look like noses.
This like a frilled cravat.
maybe an elephant's foot...
and these like little balconies, on a tree by a tarn
This tree grew twisted
And this was very mysterious. It was a huge area of deer hair. It looked like a deer had laid down and got up leaving a pile of fur behind. There was no sign that it had rubbed it off, it just shed it. It didn't seem to be the leavings of a coyote meal, there were no other signs of an animal about, no bones, no antlers. There was no skin, just little clumps of guard hairs, mostly white.
I liked the red lichen that grew in one knothole on this log.
And finally, Kylie found the foxhole over by the tarn in the first picture. She took a good sniff, and concluded that it wasn't in use at the moment.
3 comments:
love your photos thank you!
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Hi, Rofa! I've often seen tufts of deer fur lying on the ground like that here in Haliburton too, and wondered what had happened. No blood, no bones, no signs of trauma.... I was wondering if the deer could have lied down on the ground on a chilly winter night and gone to sleep, then its body heat made the fur stick to the ice underneath so that when it woke up in the morning it had to pry itself away from the ground and its fur got stuck to the ice? Nature is full of mysteries.....
wow Suja, great deduction! I'll bet that's what happens!
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