Backyard bird watching

[Raven]

i had never seen this before....

but a red squirrel was sounding the alarm
as to my presense....

and it kept scolding and chippin away loudly
attracting the attention of my local HAWK

I watched with much amusement as that hawk
flew up and down the huge pine tree trunk
just inches away from the BARK
(even round and round ) trying to catch that
red squirrel without much sucess
but it sure came mighty close.
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2nd:

On the way home yesterday i spied a hawk sitting on a
boundary post that was perhaps 3.5 to four feet tall
right on the side of the road
so camoflaged my wife never even saw it....

so i banged a U-ey and pulled right up to it
within four feet and totally stopped
so it turned (facing us) to look at us
but stayed there quite unafraid glaring at us....
I said: "what's up Dude...?"

it had just caught a nice fat field mouse and was
gonna sit there and just eat it up...
the heck with us....it was Hungry -lol

[striperman36]

My squirrels are drinking my hummingbird feeders!

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by striperman36

My squirrels are drinking my hummingbird feeders!

They seem to be desperate for this time of the year.

I had one yesterday climb up the GLASS on the window to get to
the feeder. He hung upside down off the chain of the lucite satelite feeder
and chewed a hole in the side of it.
Haven't been able to trap him, he'll go inside the trap and lick off only
the top layer of peanut butter then back out without setting off the
lightest setting of the trap.

I'll have to get a shelled peanut and lodge it deep in the trap hole
and then smear it with peanut butter. If he wants that nut the trap
WILL go off for sure. Have to see how smart he really is.

[Raven]

ya gotta feed him something hotter than a 3 alarm fire

that he really really wants.....

also;

i think some glow in the dark powder would
also make their grey camoflage coloration rendered non existant

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Raven

ya gotta feed him something hotter than a 3 alarm fire

that he really really wants.....

also;

i think some glow in the dark powder would
also make their grey camoflage coloration rendered non existant

LOL Rav, a friend of my wife's told her she put tabasco sauce on a pile of nuts
and when she came home found the squirel laying on it's back in the driveway
gasping for breath. :hih:

[Raven]

in the pitch black of the backyard
walking around looking up at the stars
i suddenly sensed i wasn't alone
i quickly noticed some motion and
saw a white striped sumthing within
5yards ....a skunk ...backing up here boss
i was trying to bust the coons
coulda got ugly

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by justplugit

I'll have to get a shelled peanut and lodge it deep in the trap hole
and then smear it with peanut butter. If he wants that nut the trap
WILL go off for sure. Have to see how smart he really is.

Yup, it worked this morning. I was watching when the little smart
arse walked into the trap licked the peanut butter off the peanut
walked out, got greedy, wanted that peanut so back in he went.
Gates closed and he went wild.
Never seen one so mad, biting the cage doing flips and making this hissing
noise.
He is now enjoying his new home, a 1/2 mile stretch of resivoir
water between him and me and a golf course to boot.
Waaaay to kind to him.

[justplugit]

Got 10 squirrels in 9 days.
Yesterday I was releasing what I thought was 1 in the usual
manner. Normally they run up the nearest tree. This one
takes off like a bat outa H*ll passes every tree and just keeps running.
I swear I thought he ran over the horizon.
I was laughing right out loud, went to throw the trap on the truck
and heard this rattle, looked and it was another squirrel in the
trap. Two for one, saved me some gas.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by justplugit

Got 10 squirrels in 9 days.
Yesterday I was releasing what I thought was 1 in the usual
manner. Normally they run up the nearest tree. This one
takes off like a bat outa H*ll passes every tree and just keeps running.
I swear I thought he ran over the horizon.
I was laughing right out loud, went to throw the trap on the truck
and heard this rattle, looked and it was another squirrel in the
trap. Two for one, saved me some gas.

the squirrel in the trap than ran away forever was the husband
the squirrel left over in the trap was the wife....

it was the husband's idea for her to go into the trap.