Cool Nature Photos

[MossRoad]

My lake is just about 100% ice covered. The ice is about an inch thick. "Normally" it will get 10" thick by winters end.View attachment 679142

It's in the 40's here. Shaping up to be yet another mild winter. If I'm lucky I'll be able to go ice fishing for maybe 2-3 weeks at the end of January. I used to go over Christmas break as a kid. Winters are about a month shorter now.

 

[kenmbz]

My lake is just about 100% ice covered. The ice is about an inch thick. "Normally" it will get 10" thick by winters end.View attachment 679142

I like the built in deck bench. Great lake view.

 

[oosik]

I gave up trapping mice a little over a month ago. I now have a "lethal" barn cat. It has done away with more rodents than I could have possibly trapped in a year. Just having the scent of cat around the buildings, vehicles, etc has been a great deterrent. I just finished a cat shelter for this "force of nature" yesterday and she really likes it.

The deck IS nice - I like it better in the summer when it's warmer.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I gave up trapping mice a little over a month ago. I now have a "lethal" barn cat. It has done away with more rodents than I could have possibly trapped in a year. Just having the scent of cat around the buildings, vehicles, etc has been a great deterrent. I just finished a cat shelter for this "force of nature" yesterday and she really likes it.

The deck IS nice - I like it better in the summer when it's warmer.

Yeah, we have several feral cats that hang out here; keep the snakes and moles and gophers in check also...and I haven't seen a mouse in several years. They met their match with our wild turkeys though. Watched one stalk several mature hen turkeys, they didn't hesitate to attack the cat and he headed for tall timber.

 

[MossRoad]

We went for a walk today at a local county park, walked out on a pier and were looking around, and noticed frogs. Dozens and dozens of frogs. All sitting on the bottom in the sun. Occasionally moving around. But mostly just sitting there. In this picture, there's at least a dozen of them, and two large tadpoles. Weird for December 9th in northern Indiana!

 

[goeduck]

I recently put a train horn in my Camaro. That's fun in the tunnels.
(No, I don't have a mullet.) :laughing:

I got to wondering if they are legal around here. Seems to be a reference to a dB limit, but not specific.

but no horn or other warning device may emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a whistle.

 

[ArlyA]

Our friend seen this fellow near Courtney Lake this week. Courtney is in the Ottawa NF in the UP of Michigan. We clear trails at this lake but no worry, we have packs pretty much everywhere. He's having lunch on a road kill.

 

[MossRoad]

Nature's clean up crew...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We went for a walk today at a local county park, walked out on a pier and were looking around, and noticed frogs. Dozens and dozens of frogs. All sitting on the bottom in the sun. Occasionally moving around. But mostly just sitting there. In this picture, there's at least a dozen of them, and two large tadpoles. Weird for December 9th in northern Indiana!

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I guess they must be hiding, I couldn't see them. Speaking of weird; my spouse claims that she saw it rain frogs. She was sober; she was on the school bus in East Texas when it happened, over 60 years ago.

 

[MossRoad]

I guess they must be hiding, I couldn't see them. Speaking of weird; my spouse claims that she saw it rain frogs. She was sober; she was on the school bus in East Texas when it happened, over 60 years ago.