I've lost track of the amount of times we have gone looking for the comet Neowise. Tonight it was found. We thought we saw it right as the sun was setting. I don't know. I mean, it looked like it could be the comet and it was in the correct part of the sky. However, it wasn't supposed to be visible until much later. Since this initial sighting didn't stick around for long TF and I drove farther west. We found a couple parked aside the road who were there for the same reasons. We parked behind them and watched and waited. Eventually we could hear that they had seen the comet. We moved closer to them to get the scoop. They found it using their binoculars. We hadn't found it yet, even with the binoculars. We followed their directions and eventually we found the comet with our binoculars. After finding it, I could sort of make it out without the binoculars. Honestly, I expected it to be a tad brighter to at least find in the sky before the additional magnification.
We also saw some deer and an animal I can't quite identify. At first I thought it was a fox. The body shape isn't quite right though, unless it is very sick. I'm going to make a photo album from today to share again. Since I haven't taken the time to figure out how to caption the pictures in the
link, key photos are here. My
happy for today is finding the comet. ☄ Also, we heard a whippoorwill.
I took a three mile walk this morning. The first few pictures are from that.
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| This tree just needs a vulture sitting atop it to be perfect. |
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| A pond along the way. |
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| Flowers in a field. |
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Another flower in a field.
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A tree with seeds.
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The remaining pictures are from the ride and time spent comet chasing.
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| A dino. |
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A bike on a sign.
Why not? |
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| Apparently the dinosaur likes their oats. |
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| Sunset. |
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There is a big lake,
Lake Buchanan |
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| TF with the lake behind her. |
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| The mysterious comet shaped object in the sky. |
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| Sunset. |
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| More sunset. |
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The people that we met had camera equipment
and this is a picture of their picture. |
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| Deer |
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| Unknown fox-like animal. |
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The shape just doesn't seem quite right.
In other pictures I think, yes, fox. 🤷
Edit: Most likely a grey fox.
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As I was reading your initial paragraph about the fox, I was thinking "I'll bet it was a grey fox, if they have those in Texas too. I'll suggest to look them up..." and then I continued scrolling and saw your edit. We had a pair that would frequent our yard when we first moved to NH, and I had that same "it looks like a fox but sort of not" reaction when I first spotted one. Before that, I had not known there was such a thing! I had only ever seen/heard of red foxes. (Not sure how much reading up on them you did - but one of the astounding/cool facts about them is that they can climb trees!)
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