Interesting sights while exercising outdoors!!

emalay
emalay Posts: 159 Member
edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
While I am fortunate enough to live in a rural area I am able to do alot of my physical fitness outdoors. I like to cycle, jog, walk the dog...etc. The thing I didn't expect in my new found love of exercise was to experience so much wildlife.
I've discovered a few neat things and thought I'd share.
Things like grasshoppers like to hang out on unharvested soy bean plants! As I walk along the field I can hear them jumping off...we're talking like in the hundreds!!
Also I've seen countless mice scurry from the corn fields...It used to take a few years off of my life when I'd seen them but now I'm used to it.
Another neat thing was when I was biking along a country road something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye...a deer was running alongside of me in the hay field he then proceeded to jump in front of me and across the road into the next field!
I've seen coyotes from afar while biking and have to say I am happy to share my fitness with the wildlife but the minute I see a bear I may have to bring the fitness indoors.

One more thing...while biking down an old gravel road I found $15.00 in change...and I wasn't even going to go biking that morning!!
Has anyone else out there experienced interesting things on their fitness excursions outdoors??

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  • raelbee
    raelbee Posts: 219 Member
    I live in a large city and when recently walking a new route through my neighborhood, I discovered my neighbor has chickens! and a rooster! I couldn't believe it! It's a couple of streets over from me, so I never hear the rooster...but thought the people that live close by probably get pretty sick of that every morning :)
  • Sardine239
    Sardine239 Posts: 72 Member
    I've also run into deer while biking. I was riding over a hill and when I got to the top, there stood a fawn. I don't know who was more surprised, me or it. Another time I was biking and a fox ran out in front of it and so I followed it up the road, which I thought was pretty cool since foxes aren't seen too much out in the open.
  • iplayoutside19
    iplayoutside19 Posts: 2,304 Member
    All the time.

    A few weeks ago I moved over a little bit while running to avoid what I thought was a pot hole. Until the "pot hole" sprayed me and scurried back into the field.

    I always see shooting stars when running early in the morning.
  • WarmDontBurn
    WarmDontBurn Posts: 1,253 Member
    I am actually surprised I haven't seen more. I saw 4 deer the other day and they were the first I had seen since I started really walking a few months ago
  • naturebaby
    naturebaby Posts: 161
    Oh yes! I see coyote, & deer, snakes, rabbits and grey squirrels, red cardinals, blue jays..:flowerforyou: the desert is alive
  • Voncreepy2
    Voncreepy2 Posts: 1,450 Member
    My daughter and I saw 2 deer, little spike bucks at the top of the hill. They look like twins. They boys are still in their bachelor groups now. And they startled a little and trtted towards the treeline. It must have been pretty thick because the first one followed a little trail but the second one tried to go through another spot and couldn't get through. He sort of got stuck and had to wriggle his hiney out backwards and then followed where the other deer had gone through. It was hysterical. I thought, boy, are you doomed on hunting season.....I love animals. we have had squirrels, deer, rabbits, most recently a coyote and my neighbor saw a bear a few days ago. Oh, and a bobcat.
  • alantin
    alantin Posts: 621 Member
    I've seen a fox three times in two weeks in suburbs.
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    Since the weather has started to cool down a little (90 degrees compared to 100) I have decided to go walking/jogging outside on saturday or sunday mornings. The first 2 weeks I went to a park that was inner city. The first day I was chased by squirrels and the ice cream truck. There is no greater motivation then to try and get away from the ice cream truck and that horrible music. The second time there was a rabbit that hopped across the path.
    Then my trainer told me about a new path the county just made along the river. It is 2.25 miles one way so at the turn around point on the first time it was full of butterflies. It was like walking into one of those butterfly greenhouses. It was amazing.
    This past Sunday morning I went and there was a heron/crane in the river, butterflies all along the trail and last but not least I almost steped on a baby snake. It was sooo tiny and cute maybe .125 inches think and 4 inches long.
    I have gotten to the point that each time I come back from a walk I post on either facebook or twitter what I just saw along the path.
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