Neighbors

[beav]

I think the owl is making sure no rodents raid the sunflower seed pile....under the threat of becoming "pellet"-ized!!

[Bruno of NH]

The owls are hungry this time of year it hard for them to get food with this much snow.

[Peter Drouin]

I have a bunch of hawks too. 


 

[nativewolf]

@Peter Drouin Yes indeed owls do eat squirrels.  Good to hear from you and thanks for sharing the pics of your neighbors.  

[Mooseherder]

My favorite Birds are Hawks followed by Owls being a close second.

[rjwoelk]

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.

[WV Sawmiller]

   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.

[thecfarm]

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.

[Peter Drouin]

It is fun to watch them cfarm.
How things over there? I think mud season is here. :D

[thecfarm]

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.

[WV Sawmiller]

   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!

[thecfarm]

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.

[Southside]

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.... :'(

[Peter Drouin]

 
He was eating something.

[Peter Drouin]

He's Back.  8) 8) :D :D :D :D


 
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.


 
There big around here.


 
Waiting for them to show. ;D

[thecfarm]

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.

[Peter Drouin]

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.


 
Now that 's a trouble maker.
Take care Cfarm.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Tastes like a cross between a coon and a squirrel.

[WDH]

Don't care that much about either one.  Ate coon once.  Ate squirrel many times, but that was many times many long time ago. 

[thecfarm]

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. 

[Peter Drouin]

A little guy. 





 

 

 

 
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?

 

[thecfarm]

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.

[Peter Drouin]

I have them all over here in town.
One time I had 3 in the yard at the same time.  : :D :D

 

 

 

 
Wake up boy.  :D :D :D


 

 
they like my bees too. Just have to be smarter than the bear.


 

 

 
They bite too.  ;)

[thecfarm]

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.

[samandothers]

Miss the whippoorwills and chuck wills widow as well as Bob whites.

Great pictures Peter.