I
just came across your website and thought I would send
you the attached photo. It was taken near the Jessup River off of
Jessup River Rd. on 11/10/03. I wear a size 8 boot, so as you can
see
this was a good size Moose! We will be back this fall in hopes of
seeing
something more than a footprint! In September of 1995 we were
fortunate
enough to see a large bull Moose crossing Rte 28N, 5 miles east of Long
Lake at
Fishing Brook about 8:00pm. Good thing my husband was as the
wheel, as his
quick thinking and evasive maneuvers kept our car and the Moose from
becoming
one! We reported our sighting at Hoss’s Country Store in Long
Lake and
they felt it was probably the same Moose that was wearing a radio
collar and
being tracked from Tupper Lake.
9/12/05
Email from The Deuel's:
My wife and I were staying at Lake Durant campground and
hiked to Tirrell Pond. About noon on Sept. 12, 2004 we were at
the outlet of the pond deciding if we wanted to have lunch there or
continue to the other end and the sandy beach. We were getting
ready to continue when I looked downstream again and the moose was
crossing the stream below the outlet. I grabbed my wife by the
shoulders and turned her around and pointed to the moose and said
moose. She saw it before it disappeared into the woods. She
would not have believed there was a moose if she had not seen it
herself.
Larry and Dinah Deuel
Dover, PA
10/24/04
Email
from Keith Walker:
I just want
to report that I came across a bull moose in the Moose River plains
area on Sunday morning October 24, 2004. It was on the
south side of the road, just west of the Sly Pond trail, between the
road and the river. It was calmly grazing when I came up on it's
back side. I actually thought I was looking at a very large bear (I
didn't have binoculars at the time, and the hemlocks made low light
visibility). But holy cow, what a sight when it turned and walked
away from me!! What an awesome animal. Keep up the nice web
site and I feel fortunate to have encountered the beast. One last
comment. When I walked out I told some guys at the nearest campsite
about it and they gave me one of those "you must be from New Jersey"
type of face. An hour later, they stopped by my campsite and said
it passed within 30 yds of their site and they had actual pictures of
it. They were 35mm and he said he would develop, scan and send
them to me. When I get them, I will forward the pics.
Keith A. Walker
Horseheads, NY
For some
reason, 2004 was fairly quiet as far as any sighting or incident
reports
. There were a few sightings of a juvenile on Route 30 in the
hamlet
of Indian Lake that was in a front yard with deer, eating food
put out
by the land owner. This occurred in December and we were informed
in
January.
