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One more pup you can't see, 4 in all, Mom is a big girl with some gray on her butt. Can't get a pix of her, Too fast. :D :D
Peter,
Those don't look like neighbors to me. Looks more like tenants from where I sit. :D
Nice picture. I hope y'alll get along well.
The last year we lived at our last house we had 4 dens within a mile, it was fun watching the pups play around. Our actual neighbor didn't care for it much because he had free range chickens :D.
That's the first thing I thought of too, sorry! We had free range chickens but locked up every night and had problems with foxes coming around. The neighbor a few places down had a little shed way out back and the momma used under that for a den. One person thinks cute, another thinks rascal and shoots. To each his own - I hope they're good neighbors for you.
Peter is a Pine Man, not a Chicken Man. Hopefully the foxes won't eat his pine.
I have fun with all of Gods creatures. 8) 8)
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Healthy looking fellow. Pretty glossy fur for this time of the year.
Great picture!
I've got a sawmill bear, too, but he is a little more shy than yours.
This one made a mess, so off with him, :D :D :D :D
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Mr Woodchuck, Now lives out on a growing in old hay field, and not under the barn. ;)
Went out to the mill today and found this little guy.
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Sharp teeth. :D
Looking at it something bit it. Teeth marks on top of the back and on the belly.
What would have killed it and not eat it??
Maybe the fox and a fisher cat were fighting over desert
Coyote!
Now the pups are running all over my yard,
Have to watch out for the cats. :D :D
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He might be 5" at the shoulder.
Don't cha worry,he'll grow. Good thing you don't have chickens. :o
I have had chickens,pigs, cows, turkeys, quail,dogs,cats,
And not one time have I had trouble with the wildlife,
One time I had a fox on one side of the fence and a chicken on the other. Wish I had a pic of that.
They were there looking at each other.4' away from each other. :D :D :D
When we had the greenhouse business,wife was standing talking to a customer in the driveway,chicken about 10 feet from her,I turned just in time to see her throw a water jug at a fox that came out of the woods to dine at The C Farm. :D Fox dropped the chicken,but broke it's leg. Kinda brave,but wanted to eat. I like to have the critters out and about. My dog was out in the woods when all this was going on.
The guy above keeps his in a pen and does not have any problems.
At one time I think I had 40 critters here, Ducks,geese,chickens. All gone due to the sign,eat at The C Farm. :D
We are slowly getting more fodder for the wildlife to dine on.
My friend said he had an airstrike on his free range chiggens, and foxes give him trouble too. He likes to sit on the back deck with a plinking machine to shoot them (but he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn if he was standing inside of it lol)
A hobby farmer had about 80 chickens free ranging . One week he lost 15 chickens , he had seen a fox so he always carried a rifle with him. He shot 9 foxes in two weeks.
Well, There was one time where a Bear went into the chicken pen. So the chickens were running around in the yard. I went to see why. There was a bears back side sticking out of the open door. So I snuck up on him and gave him hell for eating the chicken food.
The bear never came back, I did scare the crap out of him. :D :D :D
Quote from: red on June 04, 2017, 09:20:11 AM
A hobby farmer had about 80 chickens free ranging . One week he lost 15 chickens , he had seen a fox so he always carried a rifle with him. He shot 9 foxes in two weeks.
That's too bad,
lol lol lol I'm wondering what you did to the bear now lol
We need to get another furry buddy. We've been trapping groundhogs that are dining in the high tunnel. I went up the road to let one out the other evening. I should have known he wouldn't go the way I intended. He took off out of the trap like a shot, down the hill, across the road and BONG! right into a gate :D.
Quote from: Don P on June 05, 2017, 06:40:19 AM
We need to get another furry buddy. We've been trapping groundhogs that are dining in the high tunnel. I went up the road to let one out the other evening. I should have known he wouldn't go the way I intended. He took off out of the trap like a shot, down the hill, across the road and BONG! right into a gate :D.
Good one, :D :D What's in the high tunnel?.
Oh let's see, lettuce and spinach are about finished up, the critters got the beans. 'Maters are climbing the strings. Peppers are set out, cukes and zuchs should be coming in for market this week. Nasturtiums which are a pretty flower and are yummy stuffed with cream cheese and pepper jelly, we have a hummingbird stuck in there tonite but set out some water and he has plenty of blooms so should be ok. Beets and carrots are in but will be a bit yet. There are peppers and maters outside as well but this is setting up to be a blight year. We had garlic scapes with rainbows and brookies the other night. Blueberries should be in in a few weeks, strawberries are coming in now, raspberries are a few weeks off yet. I wandered outside the tunnel for all of that last and prolly missed a few, Michelle grows stuff, I cut stuff down, but I do like to eat ;D
All my stuff is in the greenhouse.
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Sometimes he goes in there and I have to get after him. :D :D :D ;)
Have 8000 BF in it.
I think the Fox and friends have all gone. They have not been around. :( :D ;)
I've seen a couple of foxes hit in the road the past few days, one had run alongside my truck earlier, there must have been a den too close to the road.
A few days ago I went up into the woods where we had made a beam. I had left a ladder up there and went to retrieve it. We had kind of left that area alone when we saw a newborn fawn sleeping in our fresh laps. I had spotted mamma in there later so I knew there was still a nursery going on. Well when I went in bambi was chasing a squirrel and bouncing around carefree. She spotted me and came up within about 10 feet without a bit of fear, checked me out and then went bouncing off on the next adventure of the morning.
New guy, The back on him is at my knee about 28". What do you think he weighs?
25lbs? 30lbs?
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This was last week, Have to fix the date on the kodak. ;D
Shoot him and weigh him then let us know.
^^ ×2
Probably closer to 50 lbs.
He looks well fed.....
SC; That's what I was thinking too!
I'd say 45# anyways!
Lot of mice around.
New guy, A sharp-shinned Hawk.
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See the square tale.
He/ she ?? was eating a Red squirle.
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very nice.
One of my favorite hawks! Watched one chase a robin through brush onetime, incredibly fast.
Hawks around,
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Sunning himself, :D :D
I had a bunch of turkey tracks across the driveway tonight.
I have a small flock that come to my yard to see what the little birds have knocked out of the windowsill bird feeder!
They clean it up, then they go on their way!
Hawks are FAST and unpredictable! My daughter has laying chickens that free-range. All last year they've been doing their thing and amazingly when they see/sense a hawk, they scramble for the bushes, under pines, etc.
Last weekend, didn't cut muster. A Red-tail did a dive-bomb and hit one so hard it died instantly. It was unable to carry it off since it was about the same size and the chicken, and my daughter went racing after it almost as fast as the hawk.
Unfortunately, the chicken didn't make it and my daughter was heartbroken. I've warned her that it's a small sampling of what will happen if she's lazy about getting them safely in the coop and locked-up since I've been seeing large red fox in our trail cams. :o :-\
New Neighbor,
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Not a baby. :D :D ;)
What do you think it is?
I've got a few "outside" pets .Rocky the raccoon who was just a little bit of a thing when he first made the scene as an orphaned kit .He's about 20-25 pounds now ,big old boar and likely the king of the woods .
Then comes Chuck the ground hog who was also a little fellow and is now the size of a beaver .He was on a mission a few weeks ago,nose in the air prancing like a wolverine obviously off to do a little courting .Rascal ate a hole through one of my shed floors ,we're going to have a chat about that .
My neighbor,bear.has not been to see me.Yet. Some morning I will find the suet holders on the ground. He always comes when I'm sleeping. Or just getting up. He-she was out eating the suet at 5am one morning last year.
Al I had a talk with him about that. ;D He took off runing.
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What do you think it is?
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
He wont eat nearly as many fawns as youre coyote pal will.
The coyote has moved on. What happens in the wild is the Father's idea not mine. ;D
Amen
Some cool ones.
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Im jealous. Nice shots.
I always joke that all my neighors are cute, fuzzy, and taste good :) some ppl laugh some give me an evil death stare :)
I think I am what you call, an acquired taste?
This guy is big. :o
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Something got after my suet feeder the other night. I doubt a bear. They was not smashed or broke. Maybe a coon? They was both on the ground,but not damaged at all. I brought them in for a couple nights.
Ya, you probably better have something bigger than a fly swatter to chase him off!
Yeah but why put out treats to draw them in then chase them off? I bet whatever it was he was just doing what the was raised to do.
In all the years they come and go never had a problem. He comes every 5th day or so. He is big, Maybe 225 / 250 lb
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The feeders are about 5' off the ground, He sitting down in the pix. :o
Them big ones will pull down the feeders and smash them up real good here. We watched one like yours,not as big,be real easy with the feeders. Than one bat with the paw and the feeder was swinging and not really looking like a feeder any more. :D Than the platform feeder was bent at a odd angle too. Guess I have to up my building standards for thier weight limit. So far no problems with the big critters.
Caught in the act!
New pups, In my log pile. :o :D I was going after the game camera, And there they where. Had my reg camera with me to see if I can get the deer.
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I had I doe with twin fawns walk by the mill today too. Got to get a pix of them.
Those little foxes are really cute. Thanks for posting.
Awwwwwww! How cute!
Kids out playing today.
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And this guy, I'm not sure what I will do with him, If he behaves it will be ok. ;D
I want you guys to zoom on this deer, What's on the coat? Are all the bumps ticks??
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Nice pictures. I have never seen a pup fox in the woods. Seem them young wood chucks a few times. ;) Got at least one in the stone wall here. Wife's dog has been watching.
This morning,
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There was 3 yesterday, one didn't look too good. But maybe it's around.
I've got a couple of fat woodchucks at the mill, too. One of them is trying for fattest woodchuck of the year. :D They'll be ok, as long as they don't dig under any buildings.
Peter,
I can't tell but could it be bot flies/warbles on the deer? We used to get them on cows and sometimes a rabbit or squirrel would get them and I don't see why deer would not get them. I don't know any way to check it unless you shoot or catch it. If it is warbles they will hatch and likely have no permanent effect.
Those are some cute foxes!
I don't think we have flys like that here.
This old doe and her yearling from last year are making regular visits in and around our place. Yesterday they were in the creek bed in front of the house then crossed the road and under my neighbor's fence at a crossing where my gas line comes under. (That crossing cost me a new hot water heater a few years ago. Our water heater would quit so we bought a new one and had same results. Found out a bear had crossed and stepped on the ball valve under the fence and shut it about half closed reducing the gas flow. I reopened and taped it in the open position and no further problems.)
This morning the old doe here was about 30 yards from our house by our pasture gate. She came back this afternoon. Her yearling crossed about an hour later. Normally they are together but separated a little today.
I need to check - the old doe may have this years fawn up on a ride in the pasture where they like to stage them. Most years I take the grandkids up and find them with them. I love watching them lay so still and often we nearly step on one before we spot him. We get pictures and leave them there and watch them grow all summer.
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Deer are around my gate and in my yard several times a day now. I dragged a good sized ash log down yesterday and spotted a doe with 2 fawns. Herded them all over the place hoping they would stop for pictures. Two pretty fawns.
Got up this morning with 2 does and 3 spotted fawns between my yard and pasture fence in a marshy area with a couple of willow trees. Told my wife and she got a bunch of pictures. The fawns are really neat to watch.
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This is my favorite - looks like he is on point. The tree length log is one I tried dragging yesterday and it got away and rolled to the fence. I need to buck it and drag out in 2-3 logs. At least the bark all slipped off.
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Pete,
I'll trade you a pair of fawns for pair of fox kits. :D
At one point all three fawns tried to nurse the same doe and she did not seem to mind. I don't think they are triplets. She might be the mother of twins and grandmother to the third one.
Yes they will readily nurse and also adopt other fawns.
I have not seen a fawn in years.
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Yes they will readily nurse and also adopt other fawns.
I guess it was 14-15 years ago friends gave us a newborn fawn about the size of a cat he found beside a road killed doe. We had goats and raised her on goat milk which was a near perfect match to deer milk I guess. We called DNR for a permit and they would not give us one and told us to turn her loose where other deer were around. (They gave us a permit about that time for my son's baby raccoon but not for the deer). Our deer was free to go here but still came for a bottle. Our German Exchange student was out with Spot videoing her doing her Bambi routine. An old doe came and jumped the fence at a regular crossing above and behind our goat barn. Spot went over to meet her and sniff noses then came back and grabbed Neelee (Nee lah) pants legs as if to say "Goodbye" then followed the doe who went back and jumped the fence. Spot crawled through the field fence and followed the doe. Neelee got it all on video then came home crying because the little deer left. We told her that was okay as we just wanted her to be safe.
Two days later my wife and a neighbor kid walked the fence after a storm to check for limbs or trees on the fence. As they approached the house they heard a squeaking and looked up to see Spot running all spraddle legged running to them. The old doe would take her along but not feed her - but she may not have been nursing at the time as Neelee did not see a fawn with her when she jumped the fence. After that Spot stayed around our house for her bottle although the would readily go play with the wild deer. During antlerless season I jumped a yearling doe in the pasture and shot it. Spot jumped up about 30' away. I felt really bad about shooting her friend in front of her and would not have shot her if I'd known Spot was there. She followed me home and I gave her a fortune cookie and she forgave me. We kept an orange collar on her so we or our neighbors did not shoot her by mistake. She stayed with us till she was a little over a year old then she just disappeared. I assume coyotes or wild dogs caught her because she was too dependable to come visit us.
Quote from: thecfarm on June 19, 2018, 01:52:43 PMI have not seen a fawn in years.
Sounds to me like you are living in an ecologically deprived area. Have you thought about moving? ;)
Moving? Down South? Heaven Forbid :D. The Grits Demons would torment him :).
Can't. I still have more rocks to dig. ;D
The deer are here. I see some. I've been seeing a lone one when I bring a load of rocks to cross a wet hole.
The little guy got cot by a coyote I think.
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When I went to the mill and walked around the building I saw just a flag running away from me into the woods.
Coyote, :rifle:
Peter,
I'm sorry for your loss. I really liked looking at the fox kits. I hope the rest fare better and you can get Mr. Wiley in your crosshairs real soon.
Don't see this too often, 3 of them.
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See mom in the back.
Peter,
Great picture. I bet there was another doe nearby. I first thought the 3 here at my place last week were triplets but then saw the second doe and all 3 did try to nurse the same doe.
We often see 3 or 4 bedded down in the same area where the mom's left them. It is great fun watching them play and prance around.
Nice picture.
There might be another mom around.
Deer are coming out of the woods to my house daily. Will have 4-5 every day withing bow shot range of the house. Spotted fawns running and playing. One doe this afternoon was in the creek then feeding on the steep bank between the creek and the road. Then 30-40 minutes later I looked out and a pair of does feeding around my woodshed and around the tops and limbs I have dragged down but not cut up yet. I don't know where they parked their fawns but I am sure they were close.
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That bank is awful steep but she makes it look easy to stand on.
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I need to weedeat this bank and along the creek but the deer are enjoying the growth so much I have delayed this task.
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Around my woodshed and future firewood. I wish that left deer would go ahead and eat that poison ivy on that dead ash.
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I love watching deer scratch their ear with their hooves.
Nice pix. I leave some of my yard uncut too.
One of the two legged neighbors straightlined a corner on the state road above the sawmill just as I was coming up the mountain, I bought my old Chevy back for $117. Her mother put me in the ditch more than once right after she got her license too. I guess my reactions are slowing :D.
There are some bats that use the shop and spend the days up under the ridge. Their poop annoys me but other than that they do keep the bugs down. This is the third year in a row where owls have moved in right about the time I'm thinking I need to move the bats along.
Saturday I had one above me while I was working, since then it has been a pair.
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They are hiding out from one another. I noticed this afternoon there must have been a truce, everyone was panting and trying to just stay cool. Rather amazing anyone is staying in there. I'm in a respirator and making noise, dust and fumes and this whole other drama is going on around, what is my small world anyway :D
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Maybe you can put up some bat houses out in your yard, that might get them out of there.
I should do the same thing with the bat houses. We sometimes get them here under the eaves of the house and behind drain pipes and such. I always leave them as I like the insect control aspect.
I never get owls in my barn but wish they would come help control the mice who like to clean up the feed bins and such. We have them on the ridges all around and especially behind the house. Sometimes they start a regular conversation talking back and forth. It amazes me the different sounds they produce. I love to hear them arguing that way.
Well, it got crowded in there today. I got down to the shop about 1:30 and there were 4 owls in there. I just came up to the house and they had hung out in there all day. Its starting to feel like a Hitchcock movie :D
Got a couple more pics of them today, one came out fairly decent. I was down to the last of the paint and just had a final coat on the hood to do, and blew it bigtime, orange peel, fisheye and tiger stripes, every possible defect, well until one of the owls looked down and pooped on it :D.
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He's sitting on the veggie racetrack for the farmers market. I'll need to sand it and put a coat of poly on it before it gets used this year, the mold stripes are where the "wheels" got the wood wet and added food for the mold to get hold of. The kids get a kick out of building veggie racecars and running them down the track.
That's cool. Not the poop part. :D :D :D :D
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My game eye was off target. :D :D
But I do have a small Bear out there. smiley_beertoast smiley_biggrin01
Don,
Recon the owl did not give a hoot about your paint.
Peter,
Nice bear butt!
I went to feed them today, Not that they need it this time of the year.
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They were laying down in the grass.
Is that you daddy?
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I'm comming.
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Me too.
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Is that you? :D
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I love my kids.
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He's been watching me for a week now.
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That's a good picture!
Hey, at least its an owl not a buzzard. :D Nice picture. We have lots of them around here and I love to hear them get into a conversation about dark. There will be one in every holler and they all make different and some strange calls. Even with as plentiful as they are we still very rarely see them.
The only neighbors we have this time of year that we see are the birds and squirrels we feed.
We have a red fox and several coyotes around but dont see them, only tracks.
Had this incident a couple of days ago.
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Linda was in the kitchen and heard a thump coming from our deck door.
2 Northern Juncos had run into it and one was laying feet up on the deck and the other was head first in the snow.
I picked them up and the feet up one was kaput but the other had a heart beat.
I held it in my hand for a few minutes then we placed it on the warm spot in our laundry room floor with the laundry basket upside down over it.
Within about 20 minutes it was hopping around.
I slid the basket over to the door, raised it up and the critter flew out to our Norway maple in the front yard.
I think one must have been chasing the other and when the first one hit the door the chaser swerved enough to receive only a glancing blow.
A partly happy ending.
Very rare to hear an owl around here. I like to hear them. Last one I saw was when I was showing Brenda the boundary lines,20 years ago.
There are quite a few Barred Owls in this area, we hear them often.
The one bird sound I really miss is the Whippoorwill. Back when I was a kid we would hear them all through the summer, now it's rare to hear them!
We have lots of owls here and I love to hear them calling at dusk or sunrise. During the Spring they drive the gobblers crazy. I had not thought about whippoorwills not calling up here but we never hear them here. They are still common in N. Fla where I grew up and where my mom still lives. I remember as a kid we'd see cottontails at night but you never saw but one eye. If you saw two eyes it was almost always a whippoorwill. Their eye was about the same size and color as a rabbit but you would see two eyes which was never the case with a rabbit.
I once had a pet screech owl for a short while. He was a neat little bird and so rarely seen. He reminded me of a mini-me of a barred owl. About the same color only 6" tall.
There are a lot fewer songbirds around here now. I said that to a guy the other day. [we where outside at the time]
Ok, show me one bird here now. We looked around no birds.
We have lots of small songbirds visit us daily especially when there is snow. They come light on the banister then dip down and steal the dogs food out of my homemade gravity feeder under the front porch or light on my porch rocker then steal it directly from the open bag on the porch. Mostly wrens, small woodpeckers, cardinals, nuthatches, etc. They are very bold to fly right next to us when we are out there.
Whippoorwill's were common when I was a boy but haven't heard one in years.
Chuck how about Whippoorwill corners near you?
Any there anymore?
Also known as chuck-wills-widow, Chuck :).
There used to be quite a few Whippoorwills around Whippoorwill Corners, but not anymore, but if there were, I'd be able to hear them from my place!
The Chuck-Wills-Widow Looks a lot like the Whippoorwill, but it has a brown throat rather than black and it's larger than the Whippoorwill! The Chuck-Wills-Widow has a softer call.
I recorded this one in Florida ten years ago.
chuck-wills-widow - YouTube (https://youtu.be/Lh4Vxz9Z6qo)
Thanks for posting MH!
That "little" chirp at the beginning of their call is the difference between the Chuck-Wills-Widow and the Whippoorwill.
The Whippoorwill doesn't have that in their voice!
Whip-poor-will:
A whip-poor-will calling - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sukE9pGayRc)
Thanks for posting the night voices, Mooseherder and Magicman!
I often tell my wife we live in a bird sanctuary. Yesterday a Hawk was eating his catch in our neighbors yard. Looks like the Birds are heading north now from my observations.
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I often tell my wife we live in a bird sanctuary. Yesterday a Hawk was eating his catch in our neighbors yard. Looks like the Birds are heading north now from my observations.
Tell the birds not to hurry as the prediction for thursday morning in Burlington, VT is 1° F.
Gerald
I can't tell if it is the same one, But, He / her is watching the red squirrels. Has anyone seen an owl eat one?
I have to go back to find the pixs, Be back in a while. ;D
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This guy is here every day. He was in the tree all day. Customers coming and going, He was watching 2 piles of sunflower seeds. Went away at 4pm.
I know there mating this time of year.
I wish I had a mouse to give him.
Maybe I'll go to the pet store and get a bunch. :laugh: :laugh:
I bet in time I could get him to land on my arm and give him a mouse.
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Here every day.
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Indians around here thought the Owls was good luck. After what I went through, I can take all the luck I can get.
He does look cool. Do you think?
I like him. But he probably doesn't give a hoot.
Good to see you back.
Missed your contribution.
Those are great pictures !
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Those are great pictures !
Glad you like them. I always have a camera with me ;D ;)
Sure is a fine looking bird !
Peter,
I had always heard seeing an owl in daytime was supposed to be bad luck (I think that was from an old Andy Griffith episode to make Ernest T Bass go back home). I have also heard if you heard one during the day the fish were supposed to be biting/not biting, depending upon who you were talking to. My old uncle sagely told me "It just means there is a hoot owl out there." An old black lady at our local lake once told me the owl was saying "Old folks go home, young folks stay here" which was precisely the cadence the owl was hooting out.
I'm impressed with your owl and would cultivate his presence. My aunt used to have a big old Red Tailed Hawk hanging out in the big live oak in her back yard down in Fla like your owl seems to be doing. He was very friendly around her. I wish I had either one hanging around my barn to keep the mice down. I want to see your picture when your owl ties up with your bear! That ought to be a sight to see.
I think the owl is making sure no rodents raid the sunflower seed pile....under the threat of becoming "pellet"-ized!!
The owls are hungry this time of year it hard for them to get food with this much snow.
I have a bunch of hawks too.
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@Peter Drouin (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12511) Yes indeed owls do eat squirrels. Good to hear from you and thanks for sharing the pics of your neighbors.
My favorite Birds are Hawks followed by Owls being a close second.
When I was farming it was always interesting watching hawks on the prowl behind the equipment. During haying it was catch and fly away, feed the young i suspect and be back shortly.
We visited Amish country some years back and they were tilling the ground in the Spring for planting. The farmers were using big draft horses and standing on a sled driving them as they turned the fields for the first time of the year. All I saw had a small dog following along. I figure they were catching any moles, shrews or nests of baby rabbits the farmer turned up.
I remember rabbit hunting with a pack of beagles in NW Fla as a teenager and a big hawk joined in. He parked himself on a convenient limb to watch the action. I figured he knew we would have the rabbits moving and exposed.
I see alot of hawks. They like to perch on top of my bluebirds houses. >:(
I have seen a hawk work the fields here. They fly low and I don't think it missed 3 feet of that field. Kinda like a grid is how he did it. I stood and watched it do it.
It is fun to watch them cfarm.
How things over there? I think mud season is here. :D
You are a little bit South of me. The only mud I have is the dirt road going to my house. I have a lttle bit showing up in my driveway. This is the first year for that. Most years it will melt down to the dirt. This year was only a little bit. But the roads are posted now. I suspect in a few weeks where I cut my wood will be a small pond.
We always like to think of hawks and such diving bombing their prey at great speed but I remember watching one on the edge of a marsh by the pistol range when I was in USMC at CLNC. It looked to be about 15-20 ft off the ground and watching below real closely. After a while he just nonchalantly hopped off the limb and just sort of floated to the ground then a few seconds later flew back up with a big old marsh rat in his claws. Nothing fancy or exciting just hopped off and floated down onto his unsuspecting target. Hey, whatever works!
I use to have guinea hens. One day those things was making a racket. The dog got down there before I did. I looked and looked for something wrong. Must of been early spring,because I looked up in the trees and saw a hawk. The guineas were doing thier job.
Many years ago on the dirt road I came up over a small knoll and there was a small hawk with a grey squirrel. Probably road killed. There was tall trees on each side of the road. I was gaining on him!! Finally he dumped his lunch and went up high. I just kept going and let him come back to his lunch. But was kinda neat seeing it at eye level.
Yesterday morning my Guineas went absolutely nuts, I walked outside to see what the issue was, wish I had looked up first as there was a mature bald eagle perched in a walnut maybe 50' from the back door. He left about the time I got halfway to the tree.... :'(
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He was eating something.
He's Back. 8) 8) :D :D :D :D
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The bear doesn't like the mud. Two steps in and backs up. Must be a sow. A bore would love the mud and walk right through it.
See the track above my hat, That's coyote tracks.
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There big around here.
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Waiting for them to show. ;D
No tracks,but I should of taken a picture of the what the bird feeder is mounted on. It was at about a 70° angle. The bear is back. I am bringing in the feeders each night. Not much for the poor things to eat,this time of year.
I have neighbors tell me they have seen the bear and it looks skinny. Last year bears where climbing W oak trees breaking off the branches for the acorns. Not waiting for them to drop to the ground.
Quite a thing to see trees in the woods with brush piles around the trees.
I wonder how the trees will do this year.
Well, the way things are I'm going to keep food out for everyone. ;D
My hummingbirds are back. Have 4 feeders out.
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Now that 's a trouble maker. :rifle:
Take care Cfarm.
Tastes like a cross between a coon and a squirrel.
Don't care that much about either one. Ate coon once. Ate squirrel many times, but that was many times many long time ago.
My little Boo-Boo would hunt them critters down!!! First time I saw him kill one,he was a changed dog. His terrier instinct kicked in full bore.
A little guy.
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Ate most of it. The last of the food is going out, Then I'm done. That bear will get big and I can't have him hanging around.
Can you imagine the look on a customer's face when, if he came out of the woods to say Hi.
Cfarm, Dose that bear look skinny to you?
Can't say on the skinny part. Keep feeding them and that will add some weight. :D I have only seen 2 bears in my whole life. One about 500 feet away,running and than one close to the house.
I have them all over here in town.
One time I had 3 in the yard at the same time. ::) :D :D
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Wake up boy. :D :D :D
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they like my bees too. Just have to be smarter than the bear.
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They bite too. ;)
I've been bringing in the suet,baltimore orioles and bird feeders in each night. Will do that for about 2 weeks than I will try to leave them out all night. Most times if there is other food for the bear to eat,they leave the feeders alone.
Miss the whippoorwills and chuck wills widow as well as Bob whites.
Great pictures Peter.
Might be time to take in the food, Getting busy out there.
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I put out the last of the corn out and got twins. :D :D
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A new cat. :D
He seems very docile. ;D
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He seems very docile. ;D
Ya, hit by a car in front over by my driveway, old guy next door called me.
I found a 25lb bobcat, So I called fish and game to see if they want it They said yes. In NH they are protected, No show today. So it's in the freezer in a bag. I'm going to try to keep it and have it stuff, But I need a paper from them saying ok for me to have it. Or the guy won't stuff it.
The law. It is a tomcat.
That would be cool with it sitting in or on top of the hot rod at the car shows. :D ;)
Should the cat be laying down or setting up stuff?
Here in NY they are legal during the season, but last time I was active and knew the rules, if you shot one, you had to report it within 24 hours and wait for an inspection before you could 'legally' do anything with it. AN acquaintance shot one (by surprise, from the hip, no less) and reported it. He waited over a week for the DEC biologist to come. He said '"Next time, no phone call, I shot it, it's mine" and around here, the local guys have a network, so he could have the mount made without the paperwork. (accountants have another set of books, taxidermists have another freezer.) But that was many years ago, not sure what the rules are here now. I caught one on the game cam a couple of weeks ago, very shy. I have only seen one in the woods and I had a bead, but his head never popped back up once I had the gun leveled. A buddy of mine who does not hunt, but he accompanied me on a weekend turkey hunt one spring and I posted him up the hill behind me to watch as I called. He watched as a bobcat stalked up behind me as I called. I never heard it of course. The bobcat was 15 feet from me when I gave up and stood up. He shot off like a cannon, I never heard or saw him. My buddies eyes were wide as saucers, he had never seen a 'house cat' that HUGE. When I explained it between epithets, he understood that 'maybe' he should have said something. My Brother in Colorado had one try to climb in the cab of his pickup when he was calling and spotting varmints late at night. He said all he saw was 'paws and claws' reaching in and swinging at him through the 6 inch opening in the window. Good thing it was cold that night or the window would have been wide open.
Beautiful animal, very surprised a car got it.
I don't see the point in shooting one. Not worth eating, so no point in taking its life.
Well WDH, that was more that 30 years ago now that I think about it. Holy cow, no, it was the 70's so that is over 40 years (man, it sucks to get old), but those guys up there were a different breed from what society puts out today. Those e guys all worked full time jobs 45-70 hours a week running heavy equipment, logging, building, built their own homes from the logs they harvested after work and on the weekends. During hunting season, they took off from work and hunted whatever was legal leaving their homes at 4am to get to the stand or ground they had chosen to hunt. Everything they harvested went to feed their families for the year. Everyone in the household got their tags and they were all filled in order to fill the freezer. They would keep a pig or a cow for the meat, and have some chickens for eggs if they could keep them alive. They kept their rifles in their skidders during the season in case they got lucky. It was a different time and their are just a few of these guys left.
I never did find out what they guy who shot the bobcat did with it, but I have no doubt he used every piece of it. Nothing got wasted. These guys would make knives and tan hides through the winter when the snow was too deep. I kept track of one of the kids from this group. He is making his living doing chainsaw carvings of a very high quality, barely made it through high school, but now he is an 'artist ' in high demand. Last time I talked to that kid, he was 14 and I was up on the mountain to sight in a .222 I was working on. He thought he could out-shoot me with his 30-30. (He considered me a 'city guy' because I wasn't on the mountain.) It was a fun learning experience for him, better for me.
It was a different time with different people. Those guys spent their entire lives in the woods, nothing was wasted that came their way. A bobcat pelt brings quite a price tag. Just sayin', when you got bills to pay and kids to feed.....
@Peter Drouin (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=12511) ,some of them guys know how to set them up.
Stepson has a small bear reaching for a beehive. The stepson found a beehive at a antique shop. The taxidermist supplied the tree limb that the bear is sitting on.
Fish & Game said no, have to give it back to them. So I said how about give it to me after they're done.
They said It would it be in too many pieces to mount ::) ::)
I dunno Pete, that sounds a little hokey to me. Bet it winds up on his mantle. ;D
He came today to get the cat. I ask him if I find a kitten can I keep it? The look on his face, :D :D :D I ask the vet if she would give it all the cat shots that she doses with my siamese?
NO. :D
If I could I would have all of Gods aminals as pets. As long as there was not too much mischief going on.
How nice it will be in Heaven when the sheep lays down with a lion.
And I will see Ann again. :(