40 millimeter moose.

[Blue_In_AK]

We met this young moose on our walk today, but, of course, I had on the wrong lens, the 17-40 on the big camera -- which meant REALLY 17-40. I had to get about 10 feet away from her to get a decent shot, but she paid me no attention at all.

[Mz Pip]

1. She looks busy eating!

What do the moose do in winter in AK? What is left for them to eat?

We have a lot of deer around our vacation house in Northeast CA and if they don't migrate down to a lower snowless altitude they die. It happens a lot since the summer people feed them because they are cute and then the poor deer think they have it made. The summer people leave and then the deer are screwed.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. The urban moose just kind of hang around here

and eat birch bark. We see them quite often in the winter. (You might remember that photo I had of the moose with the xnow-powdered nose. I think maybe it was WannaJumpMyScooter who said it looked like Scarface.) Anyway, I assume the moose out in the country get by the same way, but I'm sure many of them die each winter, especially in years when we get a lot of snow. We have some problem with them getting hit by trains because they graze along the tracks where the snow isn't so deep.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. 40mm is kind of over kill

even for a moose... hell, I bet a 9mm would take care of him

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Haha...

Are you SURE you're not an Alaskan? That sounds like an Alaskan kind of remark. :rofl:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. dunno,

just came to me

[handmade34]

3. lucky you...

nice photo... the closest I came to a moose was sans camera... I was on a motorcycle and he walked out from behind a building near the road and for a second thought I would have to manuever a drive underneath him... whew! too close for me...

a few years back my son was coming back from a xcountry meet in Maine and a moose hit them and totaled the car... luckily the people were ok, the moose was not.

Your meese may be more mellow but I would hesitate to go so close.. :scared: but I got a shot of this guy yesterday on my walk... was shooting and didn't realize he was so close; about 2 feet from my feet.

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[Blue_In_AK]

4. Yikes, give me a moose any day.

I do not like snakes, one reason why I love Alaska.

As for moose-vehicle collisions, we have them here often. We have crews who go out and retrieve the dead animals and the meat is given to local charities, especially Bean's Cafe which is the soup kitchen for the homeless people.

[Mira]

8. Risks we take for our work! Perfectly placed, and lit, too. I would have been scared,

AFTER I got the shot.

(once, in a jungley part of Florida, I stopped the car and walked towards what looked like piglets, took quite a few pictures ignoring the loud snorts, and learned they were wild black boars and their babies)