I love this thread, and love seeing different animals in the woods. I remember years back during one of the 24 Hours of Allamuchy races, I was riding a lap at around 11 or 12 at night. Out of nowhere heard the loudest screech! Scared the crap out if me, but thought maybe it was a screech owl. I was alone, no one around at all, pretty eerie. Turns out it was probably a fox - who knew? Later on same lap, a bat flew in my head lamp light for about 20 yards, scooping up bugs, very cool to see that. Then other riders caught up to me and I could relax.