Wildlife

[bagtagley]

Think this poor guy was injured. Called it in but not sure how much good that’ll do on the weekend.

[PB]

Or ..... drunk?

Seriously, hope he/she's OK.

[KQ]

[jmedslc]

Number 1 on my list of critters that give me the creeps. Saw this one (below) in the Yucca Valley tourist info center a few weeks back. Scorpions can go f*ck themselves.

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I woke up one time in the desert with one staring at me like 3 feet away. I joined the cot club immediately and have not slept directly on the ground without a tent or bivy since.

[PB]

Caption contest:
"Imma smash the next one right down through your prodigious lips."

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

[babybear]

Number 1 on my list of critters that give me the creeps. Saw this one (below) in the Yucca Valley tourist info center a few weeks back. Scorpions can go f*ck themselves.

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We felt too bad trying to flush this one down the sink and just let it be and spit our toothpaste around it

[babybear]

That’s a great pic. The rut decided by volleyball prowess

[highangle]

That’s a great pic. The rut decided by volleyball prowess

That's a cow and yearling calf bb.

Caption: See Spike? Even you own mom will drop the hammer on you if you don't play hard!

[babybear]

I was just making a stupid joke

[highangle]

Poor thing, I've hurt your feelings like a blundering gaper cutting the lift line to state something obvious. I'm not only thoughtless, I'm coarse and intrusive.
I'm sorry for that. Can I get you a drink or a slice of pie before I limit out my card?

[babybear]

Huh, it’s nbd. I just made a dumb joke that didn’t land. I promise not to bring it to my stand up routine [emoji1]
I didn’t think you were course or intrusive at all. You can get me a drink anytime

[highangle]

You're a class act bb!

[babybear]

I try but my husband would disagree after I had 2 strong mai tai’s after mtn biking the other day.
apparently dehydration and levels of classiness are correlated [emoji23]

[Angle Parking]

We felt too bad trying to flush this one down the sink and just let it be and spit our toothpaste around it

Was it just there when you flipped on the light.? Nightmarish. I would have flushed.

[TBS]

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…

[Bronco]

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!

[yeahman]

Seems to me the cats were here first…

Those must be some old cats.

[Norseman]

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!

Until it gets your eyes.

A family friend lost an eye to a small hawk several years ago.

[highangle]

Until it gets your eyes.

A family friend lost an eye to a small hawk several years ago.

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.

[Bronco]

Until it gets your eyes.

A family friend lost an eye to a small hawk several years ago.

I’m sure they can be dangerous, I just couldn’t stop thinking about “who gets in fights with owls”?

[J. Barron DeJong]

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.

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.

(Happened while my wife and I were about 10 yards away.)

[old goat]

I’m sure they can be dangerous, I just couldn’t stop thinking about “who gets in fights with owls”?

Anyone remember Jimmy Carter getting into a fight with a rabbit?

[PB]

Why no, tribal elder ..... tell us the story around the campfire.

[highangle]

Anyone remember King Arthur Pendragon getting into a fight with a rabbit?

I remember he bravely ran away...