Wildlife Around Your Home (post pics if you've got 'em!)

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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    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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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    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.

  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,386
    my wife saw a duck the other night in the backyard. highly unusual. YET, they have returned to chill....

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  • Wobbie
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    tastes like chicken, Dan?
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • dankind
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    Wobbie said:
    tastes like chicken, Dan?
    Closer to turkey. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    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!
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    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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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    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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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    Live really close to the Red River. These guys are always around. 


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  • mickeyrat
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    Looks like you have a new pet.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    Saw a tiny baby deer today.  Must have just been born. All wobbly. Also tiny tracks by a river. That time of year. 
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,895
    i saw this amazing  moth


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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    Wow. Nature is crazy. 
  • lastexitlondon
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    It looked like a humming bird. Crazy


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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    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:
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,716
    ^^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!
  • dankind
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    edited May 2022
    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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  • dankind
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    edited May 2022
    Got some pics (lower right). 




    It’s about a six- or seven-foot drop off that wall. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
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    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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