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Yeah, Harv, I really hated it when I ran over that peacock, but the owners didn't seem to care at all./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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Boondox
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Harv, you sure do need a license for wild turkeys, though on occasion my pack of goldens surprises them and twice they've actually caught one! (I think the turkey is so intent on one dog that he never notices the others coming around behind him.)
I don't hunt. Now and then when the deer simply won't stay out of my garden despite the battery of repellents deployed in and around it, I'll bring out the trusty Marlin and drop one. (Preferably not ON the vegetables!) Of course I can't let the meat go to waste, though I prefer veggies to venison. I've never understood why Vermont spends so much money controlling deer hunters instead of the deer. They are, IMO, just destructive pests with good PR. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
I've never taken the other animals that live in our forest; I prefer looking at them. But if one of my dogs shows up with a fresh duck or turkey, well, into the freezer it goes.
As for guineas, some people say their warning call sounds like "Buckwheat!" I've listened for hours and feel it sounds more like they're yelling "F***ing A!"
Pete
I don't hunt. Now and then when the deer simply won't stay out of my garden despite the battery of repellents deployed in and around it, I'll bring out the trusty Marlin and drop one. (Preferably not ON the vegetables!) Of course I can't let the meat go to waste, though I prefer veggies to venison. I've never understood why Vermont spends so much money controlling deer hunters instead of the deer. They are, IMO, just destructive pests with good PR. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
I've never taken the other animals that live in our forest; I prefer looking at them. But if one of my dogs shows up with a fresh duck or turkey, well, into the freezer it goes.
As for guineas, some people say their warning call sounds like "Buckwheat!" I've listened for hours and feel it sounds more like they're yelling "F***ing A!"
Pete
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Harv
I was outside. They are pretty tame. I have many more of the rest of the families.
I'll send them when I find out where I put them - Lets see - My harddisks, my wifes harddisk, the kids harddisk,a CD, a floppy or one of these zip disk that are multpling faster than an AOL cd.
Harv I'll bet the charm of a dear in the burbs' wears off right after the roses disappear.
I was outside. They are pretty tame. I have many more of the rest of the families.
I'll send them when I find out where I put them - Lets see - My harddisks, my wifes harddisk, the kids harddisk,a CD, a floppy or one of these zip disk that are multpling faster than an AOL cd.
Harv I'll bet the charm of a dear in the burbs' wears off right after the roses disappear.
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Bird:
So THAT's what is making that sound I keep hearing in the evenings! Kind of a shrill "Help!" repeated at 5 - 10 second intervals.
Been hearing that occasionally for the two+ years we've lived here in the country. I've seen them during the day a couple of times down the road but never right around my property.
We've never seen what makes the noise but it sounds like it's coming from a couple of hundred yards away in the field next door - or maybe in the trees on the other side. We can follow the noise as it moves.
Sends chills down the spine.
Thomas:
I'm with you. Any picture from me that you might see of a skink, or a snake or any creepy-crawley will likely take three or four frames because that's how many pieces it will be in.....
So THAT's what is making that sound I keep hearing in the evenings! Kind of a shrill "Help!" repeated at 5 - 10 second intervals.
Been hearing that occasionally for the two+ years we've lived here in the country. I've seen them during the day a couple of times down the road but never right around my property.
We've never seen what makes the noise but it sounds like it's coming from a couple of hundred yards away in the field next door - or maybe in the trees on the other side. We can follow the noise as it moves.
Sends chills down the spine.
Thomas:
I'm with you. Any picture from me that you might see of a skink, or a snake or any creepy-crawley will likely take three or four frames because that's how many pieces it will be in.....
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Yeah, WVBill, those peacocks are plumb spooky until you get used to them./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I also used to work with a fellow who bought a little place out in the country and someone in town offered to give him a peacock. Now he said he figured he could just put it in the back seat of his nearly new car and take it home, so he did. He said as soon as he got rolling, that peacock started running laps around the inside of his car, spewing a continous stream of exhaust out his hind end. He said he got the peacock home all right, but his wife wanted to kill him and the peacock for what it had done to the inside of his car./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif He said he'd never have another one./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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I also used to work with a fellow who bought a little place out in the country and someone in town offered to give him a peacock. Now he said he figured he could just put it in the back seat of his nearly new car and take it home, so he did. He said as soon as he got rolling, that peacock started running laps around the inside of his car, spewing a continous stream of exhaust out his hind end. He said he got the peacock home all right, but his wife wanted to kill him and the peacock for what it had done to the inside of his car./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif He said he'd never have another one./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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RAllen,
Nice photo shot!
Pictures like that are on post cards around here.
Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Nice photo shot!
Pictures like that are on post cards around here.
Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
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Excellent, RAllen! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
I look at that picture and I start hearing the theme music to Northern Exposure. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
That's definitely the kind of picture I was hoping to see in this thread. Now I can't wait to see the next one. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
I look at that picture and I start hearing the theme music to Northern Exposure. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
That's definitely the kind of picture I was hoping to see in this thread. Now I can't wait to see the next one. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
uppermich
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I did see a fox and a grouse this week, but the snow is 3 feet deep, so not much is moving.
This pic was taken last May of a small black bear about 50 feet from the house. It had been raiding my bird feeders in the middle of the night and was keeping an eye on the horses. The horses were really spooked and running around with nostrils flared. I guess it decided they were too big to tackle and left shortly after.
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This pic was taken last May of a small black bear about 50 feet from the house. It had been raiding my bird feeders in the middle of the night and was keeping an eye on the horses. The horses were really spooked and running around with nostrils flared. I guess it decided they were too big to tackle and left shortly after.
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uppermich,
If that bear visit you last year more than couple of times,he or she will remember the where abouts of your bird feeder and return this year...creature of habit.
In the bear family a black bear consider more dangerous do to the different moods,also in the spring time if your out and about in the woods carry some pepper spray just in case.
Great picture you took..send more of your wildlife.
Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
If that bear visit you last year more than couple of times,he or she will remember the where abouts of your bird feeder and return this year...creature of habit.
In the bear family a black bear consider more dangerous do to the different moods,also in the spring time if your out and about in the woods carry some pepper spray just in case.
Great picture you took..send more of your wildlife.
Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
