Took this series of pics yesterday of a heron landing at the pond.

Wow!! Nice shots.

I guess he's headed to eat some of your fish now. :-)

Very nice photos , High quality, But where's the pond ?

Great pics. I love the look of those birds.

In one of the pics, it's not to far a stretch to imagnine back to when that bird might have had hands or claws at the end of the front wing line.

I can't stand blue herons, they eat way too many frogs and fish to suit me.

Would that be the 5th pic, with the Velociraptor eye look?

Pic 4 or 5, but beyond that, I don't know what your saying.

What about the last picture? You know... the one where it seems to be snowing feathers just after he exploded. Ba Ba Boom!

Just kidding!

great sequence of pics there tom.

now picture that prehistoric looking critter swallowing a live and kicking ground squirrel.......they hunt on land and eat mammals.....seen it wit me own two eyes i did.....

One of my friends seen one the other day stab a muskrat under water and choke it down.

One of my friends saw one carjack a 2008 Yukon.

Are you serious!

Arrrrghrrrgg!

I can't believe someone else had the same thought.

Poor thing looks hungry.

Tom, what do they taste like?

Theo's second pic looks to have an outstanding RW...but more along the less tasty mudcat/carp line.

I agree Eastland. The effort of filleting the catch in the second photo is almost not worth the meat.

Well we all know now that birds are descendents of dinosaurs. Anybody hear some of the fossils of land based dinosaurs have feathers on them?

I think they stick feathers on the reconstructions of all the new species discovered now; it's the fad.

Oh ye of little faith.

I have proof. This tiny feathered velociraptor tries to carry me off when I go down to the pond. I'm lucky there's only one.

Those are really cool pictures by the way.

Do tell more sullpond.

Well it all started about two weeks ago, when the goat lady went of to a goat happening.
It fell to me to travel every day down to where the wild things are, to collect raptor fruit and goat milk.
There have been raptors here since the goat lady brought them home, not suspecting their true nature,
and thinking them pleasant creatures who would contribute to the farm.

One particular evening I went to check on things and this one particular young raptor decided
to leave it’s siblings, and stalk me through the tall grass.


I could hear it rustling behind me as I quickly did my chores hoping to escape to safety.
As I bent over to fill a water bucket, it took the opportunity to pounce on my shoulder,
plucking out individual hairs in an attempt to take me down.

I managed to wrest it from my shoulder, and put it back on the ground.
Unrelenting, the fiend followed me, and attempted to trip me,
no doubt trying to once again take me to the ground.
I managed to escape back up the hill but the tiny raptor followed me up to the house.
It now lives on the back porch, where it has dominion over our two dogs.

It sits and waits for me to come out, waiting for that moment when he can finish his nefarious plan.

Good story, sullpond!
What brand and model is it?

Thanks Brettski!
Brand is Wyandotte mix.
We started calling it George but I think it's a Georgina.

Anybody else think Sullpond looks like Dennis Miller the comedian on HBO?

Can I have his Money?

I'm going to vote "Yes".

Come on admit it! You're really him!

YOu may be right Cecil, he has a way with words same as Dennis Miller does...coincedence???

No sorry, not Dennis Miler, my wife would say Dennis the Menace though.
I knew I shouldn't have put a picture up, I think I might have violated the terms of my witness protection agreement

Obviously a man of great intelligence!

Oh heck I did that a long time ago. I'm all over the net. Just type in my name on a google search!

That chicken is not a chicken.

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Looks like that exercise and getting in shape is working pretty good, Cecil. Julie IS going to be surprised!

sullpond is much better looking and has better hair than DM, IMHO.

Yes, but has he ever compared the once-famed Dallas "Doomsday" Defense to the Spartans at Thermopylae?

No, however I did compare the "steel curtain" to marauding Mongol hordes.

Garsh......

So.... Tom F what kind of camera did you use to get those shots?

A Sony Alpha 350 with a Minolta AF 70-300 lens.

Uhhhhhh anybody but him! Eeeeeeek! I hate to see guys with long long hair. I used to have fairly long hair as a lead singer in a rock band years ago but after basic training...