Critters captured on camera

[MossflowerWoods]

My sister puts golf balls in the hen nests. It slows the white oak snakes down trying to digest one.

Larro

I have heard tale of the same thing, only the snake can't "bust" the golf ball and gets hung up going out through the chicken wire!

I use Easter eggs for the same purpose.
They also help the birds pick a spot to lay their eggs...

David

 

[cqaigy2]

out my front window

That squirrel is attacking the little deer!

 

[pmhowe]

Here are two of my buddies. The foxes visit regularly. The elk less often.

 

[C4Ranch]

No wonder I've got so many coyotes!

 

[SandburRanch]

Smarter than a dog, the coyote knows to chew the rope off so the carcass can be taken to a safe dining area.

 

[bullbreaker]

No wonder I've got so many coyotes!

Educate a Fla Everglades native I'm guessing that's what they call a Roadrunner ?

 

[C4Ranch]

Educate a Fla Everglades native I'm guessing that's what they call a Roadrunner ?

Yep.. Never seen one fly, always catch em running ahead of me on the trails.

 

[C4Ranch]

Smarter than a dog, the coyote knows to chew the rope off so the carcass can be taken to a safe dining area.

Yep, I've been amazed to find a 300 lb hog carcass hauled away and bones picked clean in just a couple days. My next approach is to stake it down with a Tpost.

 

[bullbreaker]

Yep, I've been amazed to find a 300 lb hog carcass hauled away and bones picked clean in just a couple days. My next approach is to stake it down with a Tpost.

Not that much weight but we use to put on edge of canal bank what was left of hogs we would butcher before it got dark after day hunting down here in SW Fla. It use to amaze me when we'd look in morning everything be gone and how much weight gators would take off with. We stopped that process real quick didn't want to attract godzilla !!!!!!!

 

[SandburRanch]

Controversy in the night.

 

[two_bit_score]

I have heard tale of the same thing, only the snake can't "bust" the golf ball and gets hung up going out through the chicken wire!

I used to hear old-timers speak of putting glass eggs in hen nests so the snakes would swallow them. Supposedly the glass eggs would kill the snake when they broke apart inside.

 

[SandburRanch]

Would it be reasonable to assume this might be the wing tip of an owl at 2: 57 am .

 

[crash325]

My pictures aren't all that exciting like elks & such.

A couple of notes. Roadrunners can fly & fly very well. They often hunt in pairs, male & female. Have 2 adult pair living real close. Tried to find the nests, but no luck in 2 years of looking. Nests are very close to the ground. Often one will swoop through the quail & doves to scatter them, then go after the old or weak. Have at least one young pair living close as well. One fairly young one got attacked by something, broken wing & leg. Top of head picked clean. Didn't want it to suffer so killed it. White wing dove was after an adult roadrunner, they went by the window so fast, almost like fighter jets.

Have a fair number of Inca Doves. The picture is a mother on nest at neighbors house. Almost nothing can get one off the nest until the eggs hatch. Normal is 2 babies. In very few days they can fly if needed, but will sit the nest un moving for a few days. They can even be touched & still not move. Though 1 was dead in the nest pictured, lifted its beak & it just plopped back. But then blinked its eye. Gone 2 days later.

Yard bosses in the bird bunch are the Quail. They take no crap from any other bird & many animals. They & the cotton tails will play with each other at times. One will dig a hole, the other will chase it out & take over. Soon there after the other will come back & take it back. Funny to watch. Mother quail will defend her babies with her live if need be. Take on anything that she feels is a threat. Baby quail usually leave the nest with Mom & dad the same day as hatched. They can sort of hop, Fly right from the git go.They are called thumb nails & are about that size. Young parents will only have 1 to 5 or 6 babies. Older adults may have a dozen at a time. One year 1 family had 3 sets of babies, all still with parents.

Lots of antelope Jacks around. Usually pretty spooky. But in here close where they are use to people, will sit & watch unless they feel threatened. Just kind of hop out of the way & watch you.

The clean up crew (Mexican Air force ), turkey buzzards check the yard almost daily. One of the most beautiful birds in the air. Pretty ugly up close.

More later if ask.

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[crash325]

My pictures aren't all that exciting like elks & such.

A couple of notes. Roadrunners can fly & fly very well. They often hunt in pairs, male & female. Have 2 adult pair living real close. Tried to find the nests, but no luck in 2 years of looking. Nests are very close to the ground. Often one will swoop through the quail & doves to scatter them, then go after the old or weak. Have at least one young pair living close as well. One fairly young one got attacked by something, broken wing & leg. Top of head picked clean. Didn't want it to suffer so killed it. White wing dove was after an adult roadrunner, they went by the window so fast, almost like fighter jets.

Have a fair number of Inca Doves. The picture is a mother on nest at neighbors house. Almost nothing can get one off the nest until the eggs hatch. Normal is 2 babies. In very few days they can fly if needed, but will sit the nest un moving for a few days. They can even be touched & still not move. Though 1 was dead in the nest pictured, lifted its beak & it just plopped back. But then blinked its eye. Gone 2 days later.

Yard bosses in the bird bunch are the Quail. They take no crap from any other bird & many animals. They & the cotton tails will play with each other at times. One will dig a hole, the other will chase it out & take over. Soon there after the other will come back & take it back. Funny to watch. Mother quail will defend her babies with her live if need be. Take on anything that she feels is a threat. Baby quail usually leave the nest with Mom & dad the same day as hatched. They can sort of hop, Fly right from the git go.They are called thumb nails & are about that size. Young parents will only have 1 to 5 or 6 babies. Older adults may have a dozen at a time. One year 1 family had 3 sets of babies, all still with parents.

Lots of antelope Jacks around. Usually pretty spooky. But in here close where they are use to people, will sit & watch unless they feel threatened. Just kind of hop out of the way & watch you.

The clean up crew (Mexican Air force ), turkey buzzards check the yard almost daily. One of the most beautiful birds in the air. Pretty ugly up close.

More later if ask.

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[JPRambo]

I visited my property north of Atlanta in February. I have a shed/overnight cabin there. Exiting my cabin in the morning I saw a couple deer about 100 feet from the cabin. I left a trail cam in an area that I put out some cracked corn to attract the deer or whatever. This is what I got about 20 pictures of stealing the corn.

 

[robarosa]

Posted this on other forums in-case you seen it already.
Momma teaching the kitten to hunt the rat in the trap. The folded line on the tarp is 31" from where the Momma is sitting.

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[cqaigy2]

Cool Pict!!!

 

[Sodo]

A young moose caught by trail camera. Central Cascades range (in Washington state) May 16, 2014 8:43AM

 

[cqaigy2]

That's pretty neat, you catching the moose while on your walk.:thumbsup:

 

[Larro Darro]

I walked down to the river for a swim this afternoon. Didn't have my camera, but someone had run over a hog nose snake. He was still alive on my way to the river, but busted open. He had died by the time I had swam my laps and walked back by. I hate to see any snake killed, but especially one like the hog nose.

Larro