Found a Baby Eagle

woodsmaneh!

woodsmaneh!

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Well done Dr Dolittle LOL, how's the wifes deer from last year? is that what your feeding to the birds rotflol....

I have 3 barred owles that live with me on 30 acres, they hang around in the summer and eat frogs out of my front pond, I can walk right up to them and they don't even care, were so luckey to have wild life around us. My dogs don't get too close to them, there not sure what to make of the owls walking around the yard at night. They sure like looking at them...
 
420God

420God

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woodsmaneh! said:
Well done Dr Dolittle LOL, how's the wifes deer from last year? is that what your feeding to the birds rotflol....

I have 3 barred owles that live with me on 30 acres, they hang around in the summer and eat frogs out of my front pond, I can walk right up to them and they don't even care, were so luckey to have wild life around us. My dogs don't get too close to them, there not sure what to make of the owls walking around the yard at night. They sure like looking at them...
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The deer took off just before it got cold and I never saw her again, she's with nature now.

How big are barred owls? I have one or two owls hanging around here but I only see them at dusk or dawn, not sure what kind they are because I can't see the colors but they look huge when they're sitting on top of my barn.

I love seeing wildlife around me.
 
neosapien

neosapien

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Dammit, I need to get further away. You guys and your natural surroundings are making me jealous. I wonder if I can get in on that 30acre and a mule thing.
 
woodsmaneh!

woodsmaneh!

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They ignore me, but that lets me get right next to them. It took about a week for them to get use to me, they make quite a racket so I just kept going out to see them and was shining the light on them they just look away. I could reach out and touch them but I would be a little worried about the reaction and I don't want them to get too use to people. I also don't want to destroy what we have by touching them, could piss them off. I'm big on look but don't touch, I have tons of animals in the back 30, Turkeys, rabbits, Black Bear (just one) Foxes, Deer, and more. It's a mixed forest, hardwood, softwood and pines in a patch about 3 acres that is just so out of place around here, stream 9 months of the year and a pond. I also burn wood as the main heat so it's nice to not have to buy wood. I just dropped about 20 trees in the back yard so I could get my satalite signal back LOL. I love chain saw's....

Like my Dad said, "son if the neibours bother you, than you didn't buy enough land" wise man my Dad.
 
potpimp

potpimp

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I had a moose calf *ON* my front porch a few months ago. I watched it's mom jump my fence to eat my raspberry leaves in the back yard. They look slow and clumsy but are far from either! And they kill more people than bears here in Alaska.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
So today I went on a hike in my favorite nearby "park" an Area of Critical Environmental Concern with some trails that belong there for hikers and riders. It's a favorite spot because more often than not mine is the only vehicle there, and I can hike in a positive fugue of self-involvement and undress without bothering or being bothered. I decided to go to the back corner of the preserve, where I haven't been in over half a year. I got to a favorite spot where I'm hiking in a smallish valley or arroyo with trees forming a natural, broad alleyway. I was admiring a patch of many feathers where apparently a wild turkey cashed in not too long ago. Suddenly, i heard something ... sort of a galloping sound coming my way. Brump brump brump. Holy crap; a buck? No! It was a coyote, flying around the blind turn just ahead of me! I don't know who was more startled. It veered off the trail at a full run when I shouted at it ... and then three seconds I shouted again when a second coyote came running hell-for-leather down the same trail and made the same unplanned left turn into the sage. I stopped for a few seconds to gather myself and listen for anything that might have spooked the coyotes toward me. I heard nothing, then remembered I was on pace #4855. (Yes; I count my paces and time my loops.)
That's the first time I actually saw a songdog in this patch. i know there are lots, because I sidestepped literally more than a dozen berry-laden poos on that trail.
But to have one almost run me down from behind a blind rise? Whoa! I don't know who of us was more freaked.

I wondered on the drive home where I would post this. As the setting sun provided a particularly colorful psychedelic-salmon sunset off a quiltwork of cirrus clouds, I decided it would be in one of 420god's critter threads. Hope it's good here. cn
 
dvs1038

dvs1038

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neosapien said:
Yeah definitely not cool. Eagles eat rodents and are just badass in general.
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They don't only eat rodents, they will eat any smaller animal they can turn into a meal. I was workin this farmers market over in Newport Beach one sunday and this Hawk swooped down on this pigeon grabbed him then flew up into a tree above one of the booths and proceeded to rip the pigeon to shreds and feast on its organs up in the tree with everyone watching. The funniest part was all the pigeon shit and feathers that ended up covering the tent below.
 
smok3h

smok3h

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cannabineer said:
So today I went on a hike in my favorite nearby "park" an Area of Critical Environmental Concern with some trails that belong there for hikers and riders. It's a favorite spot because more often than not mine is the only vehicle there, and I can hike in a positive fugue of self-involvement and undress without bothering or being bothered.
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Are you telling us that you often walk around the woods... naked?
 
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