On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:55:53 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Great photographs. Did you mean to put January 2002? >or 2001? I can hardly believe this was ~in~ >Carrollton... :)
Thanks for the kind remarks. I fixed the year - its 2002. And yes, this is in Carrollton proper, at an industrial site just off Jackson, about a mile west of the police station which is at Jackson and Josey Lane. Carrollton just a few years ago was mostly farming land and creek bottoms, with a few hills for good measure. I think it was a lot like your area up north of me still is today. There's lots of wildlife around here still, despite the city's best attempts to pour concrete over every square inch. We still have creeks and shallow ponds and fallow fields, which make for a plentiful supply of rabbits and field mice. Most any day I can find coyote, wild raptors, lots of cottontail rabbits, and many species of waterfowl and shorebirds. Heck, there's beaver about three blocks from my house, and I am in a fully developed residential neighborhood. And the day I took those hawking photos I almost stepped on a rabbit hiding in a tiny bit of grass. It's gratifying that some wildlife adapts to man's continuous development and reduction of their normal habitat. But unfortunately some can't co-exist with the restricted habitat of the city - I haven't seen any deer or bobcats or mountain lions locally. But if I drive away from the Metroplex a few miles in any direction the deer and bobcats are plentiful. My wife and I literally stumbled upon a sleeping mountain lion at a park just across the Oklahoma border (that was scary - my wife and I couldn't move away very fast because her bad knee caused her to fall and she couldn't get up for a few minutes. Luckily, the mountain lion did enough running for the three of us, and in the opposite direction.) They say there's lots of black bear up that way also. So I guess when I'm really looking for wildlife it's easy to find almost anywhere. -- John Mustarde www.photolin.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
