Thank you! That’s the first good advice I’ve gotten here!
I did see one in the distance once.
Do they actually charge if annoyed?
Moose are pretty safe. Mothers with calves can be a little aggressive, but they're more likely to stare you down while the calf gets clear, then moose off into the woods - I've had that happen while driving on woods roads, several times.
They used to wander through our fishing camps, occasionally. Just a nuisance (moose-ance?). Biggest concern there is that they might step on you, if you're in a sleeping bag. Bulls are *big* animals. Otherwise, they just stepped on things, and occasionally knocked things over. And "moose droppings" are no fun to step in. Think cows, only more of it.
Enjoy Maine! Go there in the winter. If you still like it, you'll be OK. Don't judge it based on May-Sept...it's the most beautiful place in the world, then. But from Oct-April, Mother Nature gets even.
This time of the year until end of April is probably the worst. Snow is all dirty and black, and you've been looking at it for 4+ months, anyway, so you're sick of it. Things start to thaw out, so "mud season" turns the ground into soup, and frost heaves and potholes, along with plow damage, turn some roads into cowpaths, roughly defined by a couple of ditches (or snowbanks...). April usually brings the biggest, and worst storms....feet of snow, on occasion, and it's the heavy, wet kind that is hard to plow and backbreaking to shovel.
I don't miss it. Life in the south is easier.
Been charged twice, cows with young, and by one bull when my dog was a pup. Moose hate dogs! Two months ago a bull moose charged a young man in close to where I live. He put about 12 rounds of 9mm into it before it turned away, walked off and died. Game warden said it was a lucky shot as the moose had him on the ground and would have killed him.
So yeah, they charge and are very dangerous. Used to see many more of them on my property till the wolf re-introduction killed them off. As well as the elk and deer.
Keep your distance.