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Originally posted by Bruce Condello: Yesterday I was driving through my CRP field and I heard what sounded like crying--sort of like little children would if they were in danger. In my parts, that is usually a leopard frog with a garter snake latched on to it. Since the leopard frog never makes that noise otherwise, I surmise that the frog's strategy is to call a warm-bloded predator to spoil the snake's dinner. It's not surprising for your rabbit, but I find it amazing that a frog could evolve to call a predator to get it out of trouble.
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Originally posted by dave in el dorado ca: anybody who comes to visit, check yer clothes in the morning BEFORE you put them on. i actually do check, and i actually shook a scorpion out of my pants one day, and one time a full grown tarantula out of my boots in the garage. just three days ago it took me an hour to dig out all my tools along one wall of the garage to get to the rattler that had crawled in. between late june and early august, walking out and about alone at night is ill advised due to our resident cougars. But did ya tell your old buddy JHAP, nooooo! Last time up at my property I turned over a tarp and found a nice scorpion, 18 or 19 inches long at least, or perhaps it just seemed that large with my heightened state of cowardess. We do have a resident fox that is a tough little fellow. Stands his ground with a lot of attitude. Bears and cougars have been spotted on my place but not any by me. Nothing particularly exotic like Rad though.
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look anything like this bobad?......... this one werent callin out nothin taken on my driveway above pond.
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Haa! Posted with in seconds each other. Hello Dave!
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)
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ewest, We have cobras, kraits, sea snakes and a whole slew of different models of pit vipers. We have killed two blue coral snakes in the house, and a pair mangrove pit vipers made a nest and tried to raise a family next to the house. We found three babies and boy were they mad, as soon as they saw me they started hissing and striking. I have been swimming many times and never seen a sea snake.
1/4 & 3/4 acre ponds. A thousand miles from no where and there is no place I want to be... Dwight Yoakam
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We don't really have any unusual critters in our zone, but during a visit to southwestern Minnesota, we encountered this beast raiding a nest of Limed Coronas... - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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You guys make me real glad I live in WV! Except for a few copperheads and timber rattlers, I can't think of many critters that really could make life scary or unsafe -- except maybe humans. Southern Flying Squirrel Edit: (Brettski -- I think we posted at the same time. It is a good feeling to live where the critters are like yours and mine.)
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Originally posted by Brettski: We don't really have any unusual critters in our zone, but during a visit to southwestern Minnesota, we encountered this beast raiding a nest of Limed Coronas... Now we know why Life is Good on Bremer Pond!
"Only after sorrow's hand has bowed your head will life become truly real to you; then you will acquire the noble spirituality which intensifies the reality of life. I go to an all-powerful God. Beyond that I have no knowledge--no fear--only faith."
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ROFLOL !! B'ski that is almost as good as the stooges. Badger - Badger - Badger ---- snake.
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Originally posted by dave in el dorado ca: look anything like this bobad?.........
this one werent callin out nothin
taken on my driveway above pond. Exactly! Substitute my western ribbon for your red sided, of course. If that was a leopard frog in my area, it would be bleating and screaming bloody nurder.
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Excellent....Rad's critters are just that. I like the armadillo and possum also. Catmandoo, we are used to living among large predators, I do spend a lot of time in the back woods but take certain precautions, as a minimum I carry pepper spray and bear bangers, defender 12 guage if we are tenting out. I forgot to mention, I also have a couple of bush weasels.
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"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
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In the process of stripping out a car right now. So far I have killed 8 brown recluse spiders and I am only halfway done. These things are very common here and we catch them on glue traps in the house. The exterminator sprays twice a year but admits that pesticide has little effect on them as they don't drag their body as they walk. Every once in a while I will go through my spare plywood stock and kill a dozen easily.
BTW the armadillos have made it as far north as St. Louis. I seen on 10 years ago and no one believed me. Recently though the local paper has shown pics of a few hit on the road so now nobody doubts my sighting.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
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Hey Wood, the weasels are growing nicely. Looks like you have been feeding and fertilizing.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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We've been amazed at the wildlife we've photographed on our place since building three years ago - partly because we are just three miles out of the city limits but it seems so remote! Let's see... bobwhite quail, pheasant, bobcat, deer, turkey, coyotes, morning dove, coons, possums, roadrunners, armadillos (GRRR), skunks, and way too many cottontail rabbits, tons of birds and snakes and frogs...OH - and then there is DHs wild "pet" squirrel named Sissy. (Gonna try to post a few pics - not sure if this is how to do it...and I can't find my bobcat picture. I'll keep looking!)
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up here in IL we have deer, deer, o and more deer. but the coyote packs have gotten a lot larger and actually are pretty agressive they took a few of our cats which made my mom learn how to use the 22. The bucks get big up here though. we also have our nice turkey flocks the bald eagles in the winter, the turkey vultures, the hawks and all those ground animals rabbits squirrels etc. but i did see a bob cat a couple of years back no one believed me but i am certain of it
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1/4 & 3/4 acre ponds. A thousand miles from no where and there is no place I want to be... Dwight Yoakam
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The cat has been cornered by a flock of turkeys and wants inside.
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That's a great animal GW. They're getting scarce.
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I was attacked by a green bean.
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I guess I have just about everything but bears. No mountain lion stories for the last 10 years. My wife did see a huge bobcat a couple of weeks ago about 50 ft. from our front window. It was 3:00 in the afternoon. She got really excited.
Last year I did see something odd. It looked exactly like a whitetail buck but had axis type spots. It did not have axis antlers. I talked to another guy who said that my report was the third he had heard about over a 20 mile area. He also said that he had talked to the Game Warden and was told that they couldn't/wouldn't cross breed. I guess it could've been a whitetail with an odd gene trait but I've never seen anything like it.
We do have some game ranches around. Last year, some kind of exotic antelope was in my pastures. It looked like a Texas antelope but had long, thick, spiraling, horns. I saw it 3 times. I'm a long way from antelope country. A neighbor saw it once. He wanted to shoot and mount it. I couldn't see the point in doing that. Haven't seen it since and he didn't shoot it.
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we've had four really interesting sitings in the past week. a week ago, my wife was looking down over the hill from our driveway and saw an adult cougar sitting on his hind legs with his front legs straight (like house cats do, kinda like a sphynx). she said it blended in so well, she thought at first it was just a clump of grass, she turned her head for a minute, and when she looked back, it was gone.
three days ago, i saw probably the same cat across my property stalking a fawn or jack rabbit, i couldnt tell the prey, it ran too fast into the trees, then i saw the cougar slinking low through the grass approaching the area the prey ran into. from across the canyon, it heard me walking on the driveway, turned and looked, then took off into the woods.
day before yesterday, my wife (with binoculars in hand), looking into the same spot she saw the cougar, saw an adult bobcat carrying an adult rattlesnake in its mouth. the bobcat was unaware of her presence, and she got a fantastic long look at this....but not long enough to get the camera, it was gone when she came back out w/ camera.
last night before retiring to bed, i was outside infront of garage. have you ever seen a domestic cat get into that crazed rage and race around? in the darkness below our driveway i heard something dashing around and then jumping onto a pine and climbing about 10 feet up into....then it kind of grunted and yowled twice, i grabbed the flashlight, and just caught the bobcat descending from the tree and tearing off into the woods.....all this while taking in some nice meteors last night (persyiad (sp?) meteor shower).
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Dang Dave, you have a regular wild kingdom going on there!
Consider yourself reprimanded for not carrying around a camera.
With all your cougar sightings I think that you must have a den or cougar condo or something on your property.
I have a squirrel with an attitude at my place, does that count? (and before anyone says it I was not referring to myself).
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)
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