Mabman
E*POWAH Elite World Champion
I don't have a picture but there is a gal on Igram that posts pics of her dog that she has trained to find Chanterelle mushrooms....they grow here and we use our bikes to get into areas that people normally can't get to on foot but I know that we ride by patches all the time and that dog would be a great trail companion!
Rod B.
Well-known member
Reminds me of two puppies fighting under a blanket...
Technically speaking this is a terrible photo as I had to use digital zoom on my phone () but considering I'm in the UK and this was t
They are not real haggises. Real ones have shorter legs on one side so they can run around steep Scottish mountains without falling over.
The haggises or the hunters?
It's flat did you ride over it ?
DuncanDoughnuts
Active member
A recent local ride
Nah got a good view when my mate up ahead unknowingly went in a bit too close... we road back for a quick view.... They flatten out on sensing to any kinda threat, before striking...
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
This is the most aggressive thing I've seen for a while.
Two weeks later they nearly had me off the bike!
They were migrating from the pond into the woods as half-inch long frogs, all black against the dark earth trail. There were millions, if not hundreds of millions of them. Not even a flock of starlings and blackbirds could made a dent in their numbers.
Two weeks later they nearly had me off the bike!
They were migrating from the pond into the woods as half-inch long frogs, all black against the dark earth trail. There were millions, if not hundreds of millions of them. Not even a flock of starlings and blackbirds could made a dent in their numbers.
Plummet
Flash Git
Well I had a native nz tit on my front wheel at one point
RebornRider
Well-known member
I couldn't see the screen of my phone well enough in the bright sun to get a decent pic, so here is the best I've got. Bobcats are known to hang around my local trails (Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park), but it took 30 years of hiking and biking there to finally see one.
Desmopilot
New Member
Surprised a pair of young moose on my ride last weekend. I stayed behind the tree for the pic. Thought they were too old for momma to be near, but didn't feel like getting stomped.
New Scottish saying .There's a Moose loose and they kin be afa coorse. English translation ( can be awfully bad ) .
steve_sordy
Wedding Crasher
I was travelling with a bunch of locals in Sweden almost 40 years ago. It was May and I'd been told that morning that they had had a meter of snow in the town centre (Norkopping) the previous week. We were out in the sticks, travelling to the Baltic coast, and I asked if they had bears or wolves in the forest. They told me that they only come over from Russia when the winter is a bad one, but that they get lots of Moose. There are many active hunters looking and about 100,000 Moose are killed each year. Just as they were telling me this the convoy of estate cars (Volvo, naturally) pulled to a halt and there was a Moose and two calves grazing by the roadside. That night we had Moose on the menu, in honor of the occasion. 
We live in Chichester, West Sussex, UK. Two days ago noticed a very large bird in one of the large Oak trees in front of our house making a cry I had never heard before. Just as I grabbed my phone to get a picture it flew away but I got a fuzzy shot of it. A "bird bloke" I know photo enhanced my pic and confirmed what I thought- it was a White Tailed Eagle which have been seen in the South of the UK but to my knowledge never before nearby! Think they were reintroduced to the Isle of Wight in 2019.
Yes that's like the Basking shark we caught on a trawler 1970 no mobile phones them days . I could have got a few free drams if I had that on my phone.
RebornRider
Well-known member
It's the Black K'nigget!
I had a strange encounter recently...but sorry, it wasn't in EMTB... 
RebornRider
Well-known member
In the unlikely event that someone didn't get my black k'nigget reference.
I'll show myself out ...
I'll show myself out ...
I'm just gobsmacked that as a relatively educated 51 year old I had no idea that a Haggis was a real animal. And a damn weird looking one at that. Crucially, I feel cheated that Attenborough hasn't covered them. Some biologist he is, won't be bothering with him anymore.
Tim1023
Well-known member
I had a native tit on my saddle last week!
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Gyre
Well-known member
Deer, bears, snakes, rabbits, bobcats. The best sighting was a condor while driving to the trailhead. No photo unfortunately.
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