Michael Mann team captain for Dexter McCarty Middle School in Gresham takes the 205 path to Springwater trail. Michael has come to love his commute and enjoys seeing the occasional geese, deer, raccoons and rabbits on his way to work.
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I encounter lots of critters, too, and love that aspect of bike commuting (and hate that motorized traffic is so brutal).
I spooked deer away from the road edge *twice* last week.
Yesterday morning in the dark I saw *something* light colored and low to the ground moving across the road. As I got close enough for the spill from my headlight, I could just make out a much larger, darker silhouette. It was *big*. Moved like a wild animal. Could have been a raccoon, I guess; but if so, it was either the biggest one I ever saw, or a trick of the light.
This morning I passed a pair of chickens trying to get up the nerve to cross the road.