For all the nature lovers: What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever witnessed in the woods?

Nothing too out of the ordinary except for maybe one thing that comes to mind. A couple summers ago my ex boyfriend and I were driving by a field close to dusk and we stopped the truck to look at a cat and a deer just chilling out together. I swear to god. It was the neighbors cat, tail held high, with a deer several feet away. I wanted to get a picture but my old phone camera was terrible and it was too dark to catch anything on film but two blobs.

In my short lifetime as a Maine citizen I’ve seen a few bald eagles overhead while kayaking, I’ve seen a beaver going for a swim from above in a tree stand. Close to the Canadian border I’ve seen a couple black bears take off. I’ve seen deer take off countless times. A handful of years ago my mother and I saw a raccoon with her baby in her mouth standing on its hind leg in the middle of the road. Back in 2016 I think, I videotaped a porcupine walking through a field of clover as my dad and I drove by. I’m sure there’s many more animals that I’ve seen that I’m forgetting.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

I saw a little video recently of a cat and deer hanging out together, it must be kind of common. I’ve seen bald eagles while driving, a sparrow hawk with a mouse draped over a power line about to dine on it, a vulture shredding a roadkill skunk, a cluster of copperhead snakes sunning themselves near a foot path, deer jumping over one fence taking a couple of hops and then jumping over another kind of straddling the fence with his belly till he got over it, about 8-10 water moccasins in a cluster in the shallowest part of our spring-fed creek, they hung out there all the time, a blue heron and a white egret standing near each other on a little sandbar in a river watching for fish to catch...a lot of things but I don’t get into the country much these days.