Photos from Brad's Post

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River Legacy
703 N.W. Green Oaks Blvd.
(at Cooper Street)
Arlington, TX 76006 US
817.860.6752

Photos from Brad's Post

Written by Administrator Tuesday, 21 October 2008 08:39

These photos were taken in River Legacy Park (Arlington, TX) on Wednesday, 08Oct08 between 10:01 am and 10:09 am. I was on the east trail walking south-south-west from mile-marker 5 about half way to mile-marker 4 (just before the trail turns westward).

The first picture (the wide shot) was one of the intial 2-3 pictures I took. And I took it to purposefully demonstrate two things. First, I wanted to show that I was not standing right on top of her. My camera simply has a pretty good zoom function and makes it look that way. And second, it would actually have been quite easy to walk right on by and not even notice her, even though she was lying only inches from the trail. In the dappled sunlight, her camouflage was startlingly effective.

She certainly didn't seem too concerned about me or my fellow-walker standing next to me at the time. Even more surprising was her complete indifference to the bicycles whizzing by now and then. Thankfully no one came by/through with any dogs though. I somehow doubt she would have been quite so accepting of them.

After "hanging about" for almost 9 minutes (from the time I had first walked up on her), our furry lady-friend decided that she had had enough and strode imperiously off into the brush. On examining the "walking away" photo later, it also appears that she had been nursing cubs recently.