State just had to put down two cougars in our ‘hood who started taking an interest in someone’s chickens.
Seems to me the cats were here first…
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State just had to put down two cougars in our ‘hood who started taking an interest in someone’s chickens.
Seems to me the cats were here first…
Attacked by a big ass owl on yesterdays trail run. It’s done a couple of real close fly byes in the past few years but yesterday it circled back two more times and came at me with talons deployed. I ended up fending it off with a stick while laughing hysterically. Holy cow that was funny!
Those must be some old cats.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
Until it gets your eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bronco
A family friend lost an eye to a small hawk several years ago.
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Originally Posted by Norseman
I've been "charged" by 7oz sharpshinned hawks [Accipiter striatus]. They do not know fear. They do know murder hornet fury and revenge. Plus they go crazy around bird feeders or henhouses and will not be driven off until the sun sets.
We bust them off our office birds with a rinkydink slingshot. It's not enough to kill them or even lay them up, but it's the only thing that will run them off [they mate for life and always work in pairs unless they have younglings] for more than a few minutes. My Steller's jays and the local magpies and thrushes and even woodpeckers will come yelling when they show up.
It's not right to shoot them with 7 1/2 shot. We abut the vast Chugach NF and they're territorial, so it would be an endless slaughter of a higher-level predator. That fox-in-a-henhouse crazy they go is a phenotypical response to an exposed rich vein of pure gold [they only eat birds]. It's also their primary mortality around peopled areas...
Hazing them may not be strictly legal, but it beats the alternatives if you want to feed songbirds and corvids.
And bird lovers shouldn't confuse the sharpie and Cooper's hawk with their slightly larger distant cousins the merlin aka ladyhawk or pigeonhawk [Falco columbarius], who will also take birds and are territorial, but who can take a hint and adapt to specialize in fur when they live around feeders and barnyards.
I have squirrel-eating merlins in my hood and ospreys that nest nearby and take snowshoe hares in my yard in spring. They're a joy and a wonder to have around. But sharpies are like wasps with a ground game.
I’m sure they can be dangerous, I just couldn’t stop thinking about “who gets in fights with owls”?Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman
My brother-in-law was trying to keep a grackle from eating at his feeder, so he was trying to shoot it with a pellet gun. Took a break from shooting and the grackle came back. Then a hawk swooped in and picked up the grackle from right under the feeder; problem solved.Quote:
Originally Posted by highangle
(Happened while my wife and I were about 10 yards away.)
Anyone remember Jimmy Carter getting into a fight with a rabbit?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bronco
Why no, tribal elder ..... tell us the story around the campfire. ;)
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Originally Posted by old goat
I remember he bravely ran away...
It was Dyn-O-Mite!Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
edit: dammit highangle, you changed it!
hah, was able to grab it for posterity!:
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Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong
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Been present to a similar loss in my early teens involving a broad point...Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a8406811ae.jpgU shur e wasn't practicing his scorp mating call?
I've had a half dozen personal contact awakenings to these crafty fqs
There are less desirable encounters
Some people worry about the squirrels eating at their bird feeders, others.........
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Sorry. I don't remember it. I was hoping someone would tell me.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
A Clockwise and a Counterclockwise Sidehill Gouger
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Rarely seen together
Thanks for posting, that's pretty strange.
KQ - did you see the video this frame is from ?Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
I am sure it is up-thread ^^^
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Saw my first Yellow-Bellied Western Racer snake last week, in Montana.
Thing was fast and aggressive. It buzzed its tail against some dry leaves which made me step back, of course thinking it was a rattler, before I could get a good look. Then it climbed up into a damned tree and I got these photos. It was very attentive to my motion and positioned itself carefully in defense of my every approach.
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So, I mentioned this in another thread, but Just saw the damnedest thing...a one year old bear just trucking down pearl Street, right in front of Big Hole BBQ. (Basically a few blocks from Town Square. So cute, but very strange!
I am sure there will be pictures soon. When I saw it I was passing a lady on her phone waiting for the bus, I yelled to her, (in a very calm way ‘Yo, you see the bear?”
She flipped out a little. Was hilarious.
cute little pine marten in the tree.
It was on the mountain so I’d like to imagine that it’s the one that leaves epic tracks on the sublette lift line in the winter [emoji1]
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Great pics of a nifty little critter. Cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by Norseman
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Missed getting pics of some massive antlers and a weasel this morning but I caught these guys crossing the road
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So majestic
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The Hummingbirds have departed for warmer climes.
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But I’ve never seen as many Hawk Moths.
like
OK, not exactly wild
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Do you guys get mulies and black tail deer?
Only mule deer around here - blacktails are on the west side of the crest.
They’ve become a nuisance this year, running into traffic and beating up yapper dogs. My hygienist hit one on her moto coming to work in July.
A huge thanks to the ground squirrels that collected 10 Jeffrey pines worth of cones, ate the nuts, and piled all the cobs and scales neatly in front of the shed I assume they're living under, for me to shovel into the 90 gal yard waste bin. At least 30 gal worth. In 30 years they've never done that. Obviously they're figuring on a big winter.
I like the way they think OG.
I went back out and they'd already started a new pile.
Ok, bird experts, what am I looking at?
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northern harrier hawk has been suggested. I thought adolescent bald eagle.
Angry Bird?
A number of knowledgeable people have told me it’s a red tailed hawk, which makes sense.
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Yeah, out backyard has a dozen or more all day long...hummingbirds, not moths.
We have owls around our place too. Every once and awhile I find a rabbits foot or other piece of carrion on the deck.