Once a week I make a 170 km round trip to take my son to his music lesson. The route takes me through some farmland and some wilder places. It's not unusual to see deer, both bounding across the road ahead of me, and lying dead along the roadside. Other than that the drive is pretty uneventful.Yesterday we were driving along when a group of ravens took to the air. "Probably a deer", I thought to myself. Then I noticed that one of the ravens was a lot larger than the rest and had a white tail. "I think I just saw an eagle!", I said to my son. He looked all around, but he missed it. On the way home I kept an eye out for the road kill. Sure enough it was a deer, and sitting beside it was a bald eagle. Wow!A little closer to home I noticed a couple trucks and a bunch of cattle alongside the road. My first thought was that the cattle had gotten out of their fenced pasture. When we came up alongside, we realized that the cattle were being driven up the highway. In addition to the trucks, there were a couple people on ATVs herding the cattle along. They'd come from a couple kilometers if the evidence left on the highway is any indication. I've never seen that before either. I might have to start taking my camera on the drive.
(Originally posted on Facebook 9:34pm Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007 )
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