I have seen a hummingbird kick the asses of of several robins in an aerial show that was amazing while defending his mate, nest and young.

I have seen a male crow spend the winter here looking after his mate when she was lame and couldn't migrate south, preening her and feeding her in nasty winter conditions.

I have seen a falcon make 9 attempts to nail mice within 40 feet of me and not get a single mouse.

I have seen a huge white tail buck take on a dozen yotes in an open field on snow and kill two of them without getting taken down. (BTW... I trailed that buck for five hours before I caught up to him only because the yotes held him up and I could have taken him during the fight but, when I saw that, I gave up hunting deer. Oh, yeah, he never would have been taken as I was locked and loaded... never fired a shot... I knew he was okay.)

I have watched cock birch partridge feather and drum twenty feet from me.

I have sat in the woods of Kent County, New Brunswick and watched the silence at dusk. Everything stops. I have snapoped my fingers near my ears to see if the silence was real.

I've looked up a woods road in Kent County at 2AM on a full moon and seen moose and deer 300m away.

I've watched a porcupine give birth. And a moose.

I've watched a beaver splash me repeatedly because it didn't like me fishing while standing on it's dam. I smacked it with my fishing rod the fourth time. It left me alone after that.

I've seen a white birch 18"+ at the butt felled by a beaver. I did have a camera. But, even tho I took at least two pics of that tree, the pics did not come out... odd indeed. Maybe it was just for my eyes.

I've seen a silver birch that is AMAZING... every time we travelled by it, we stopped to pay homage to this tree. I am talking 60' without a knot and 100' or better tall. Incredible tree!

I've seen eels make a nest with rocks in a brook. I've seen them "camoflage" themseles as sticks as I approached. I have seen them do the same thing and grab trout as they swam by.

I have seen Orion tell me the time while sleeping in a fern patch all night in a clearing 20 km from my truck. I liked going back in the bush... away from everybody and everything. Animals are so much nicer than people.