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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Wobbie said:

    The worst! We had a few annoying peacocks on our farm growing up. After a while, we found  another farm a few towns over that would take them. 

    We loaded them up and drove them over, and the next day, they had found their way back to our farm. 

    We finally just slaughtered and ate them. 
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,357
    Ouch DK.
    Nobody questions an axe with blood round the barn, always got to be some killing going on at the farm. 

     Something like that.

  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,496
    my wife saw a duck the other night in the backyard. highly unusual. YET, they have returned to chill....

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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,144
    tastes like chicken, Dan?
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Wobbie said:
    tastes like chicken, Dan?
    Closer to turkey. 
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,976
    dankind said:
    Wobbie said:

    The worst! We had a few annoying peacocks on our farm growing up. After a while, we found  another farm a few towns over that would take them. 

    We loaded them up and drove them over, and the next day, they had found their way back to our farm. 

    We finally just slaughtered and ate them. 

    There is a very short 1/2 page story by Sam Shepard in his book Hawk Moon called "Peacock Killer" that is a bit gruesome, but I also found it oddly funny.  A short film was made based on Shepard's vignette.  I actually haven't seen the film.  I can't imagine it is better than the story itself.  Shepard was quite the writer!
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  • Hi!Hi! Posts: 3,095
    Above the swans head is a red winged black bird (Kinda hard to see).I watched that bird dive bomb the swan for like 20 minutes yesterday. Pretty wild.




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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,976
    Hi! said:
    Above the swans head is a red winged black bird (Kinda hard to see).I watched that bird dive bomb the swan for like 20 minutes yesterday. Pretty wild.





    What a beauty!  I think I can see the red winged blackbird.  That poor swan, lol!
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Posts: 36,906
    Live really close to the Red River. These guys are always around. 


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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 38,496

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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,357
    Looks like you have a new pet.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,357
    Saw a tiny baby deer today.  Must have just been born. All wobbly. Also tiny tracks by a river. That time of year. 
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,769
    i saw this amazing  moth
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,357
    Wow. Nature is crazy. 
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,769
    It looked like a humming bird. Crazy
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,976
    Went down to U.C. Davis, Davis, Calif., to see my sister and took a walk along Putah Creek ("Putah" is from the Lake Wiwok puṭa wuwwe "grassy creek") and saw this beauty.  Unusual to be so close to a Great Blue Heron and not have it fly away!
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    The photo of the heron was taken under an overpass.  Most of the creek looks like this:
    Walk Along Putah Creek at the UC Davis Arboretum - Review of UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden Davis CA - Tripadvisor
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,357
    ^^Nice.

    True they usually take off.

    Side story. My friend always wanted to see an owl. Saw one in the woods. Posted everywhere and excitedly told me about it. 
    Went back to the spot it was still there on the forest floor.

     Same spot.

    He approached it and it was one of those fake owl decoys!
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
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    We have an lone bunny living under a robin’s nest in the bushes in our front yard. Pretty sure the rest of its family fell victim to cars, owls, coyotes, or falcons. 

    It’s so tiny, but it’s been pretty good about keeping itself alive so far. Good instincts. 

    I really don’t like rabbits/bunnies all that much, but I’d like to see this little one thrive. 
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    edited May 2022
    Got some pics (lower right). 




    It’s about a six- or seven-foot drop off that wall. 
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Posts: 36,906
    it's amazing how often rabbits procreate. with how many end up eaten by predators, you begin to understand why the saying "breeding like rabbits" is 100% true. 
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  • Hi!Hi! Posts: 3,095

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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,976
    Hi! said:


    Love the turtle!
    Wow!  All those snakes!  I've seen lots of snakes over the years but never in a group like that!
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  • Hi!Hi! Posts: 3,095
    ^
    I like turtles.

    Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.

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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,976
    Hi! said:
    ^
    I like turtles.

    Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.
    Turtles are rad!
    I'm not familiar with that snake.  Are the venomous?  Funny- at first glance they look like a pile of worms.
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  • Hi!Hi! Posts: 3,095
    brianlux said:
    Hi! said:
    ^
    I like turtles.

    Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.
    Turtles are rad!
    I'm not familiar with that snake.  Are the venomous?  Funny- at first glance they look like a pile of worms.
    Not really familiar either. Just a common water snake, I don’t think they are venomous. 

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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,976
    Hi! said:
    brianlux said:
    Hi! said:
    ^
    I like turtles.

    Yeah, the snakes were a total surprise. Ive never seen them grouped up like that either. I have seen them sitting up in the bushes by themselves like in the first picture. Water snakes enjoying the hot sun. So gross! Not a big fan, lol.
    Turtles are rad!
    I'm not familiar with that snake.  Are the venomous?  Funny- at first glance they look like a pile of worms.
    Not really familiar either. Just a common water snake, I don’t think they are venomous. 


    That's good!
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 29,448
    Now wildlife but natural beauty! 
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 41,976
    josevolution said:
    Now wildlife but natural beauty! 

    Beautiful!
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  • FifthelementFifthelement Posts: 6,961
    Hi! said:

    Awesome pix. 

    josevolution said:
    Now wildlife but natural beauty! 
    Lovely colour.  Is it fragrant?

    Bunnies, birds, sneks, and turtles oh my!
    what a beastly bounty.


    Watched momma raccoon move her three kits last night.  Pics aren’t great as the dogs were losing their shit as she went by.


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    Pair of muntjac deer having breakfast in my garden this week. 
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