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Oh come on now. Motherhood is a wonderful thing.


A clerk in the Goodwill Store in McMinneville, OR made a negative remark
to a mother who was breast-feeding her baby in the store. It made the local tv news.
Today, it became a cause célèbre, with the towns women bringing their babies to the store to protest.

The clerk was let go, and motherhood survives in all it's forms.

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If that mother brings her brood, I'll offer them a drink... of Molotov cocktail. :flamer:

:eek: Yeah, that pic should be in the nightmare thread.

Thank you very much!

This is the lady that I posted about whacking off a breast by mistake. Western PA.

Glad T-Rex isn't around.... just his teeth.

The proper way to unbox your turtle... even not box turtles. :p:

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Alligator hazard is par for the course at Florida golf club

There must be something in the local rule book to cover this eventuality.

So there I am, driving down the country road, minding my own bidness...

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He wasn't being particularly photo-friendly. Very short video to follow in the not-too-distant future.

Shitty-camera-through-the-dirty-windshield pics.

May be a shitty camera and may be through a windshield, but they are great pictures anyway. I've never seen a wild turkey from that close before.

I was using most of the 24x (optical) zoom.

Anyway, here's the driving, rolling down the window, videoing a turkey, short, shaky video I mentioned.



That's about a eight inch beard on that there turkey. This time next month, turkey season, he'd be a shooter.

Since the seventies MA has been actively building the wild turkey population(feathers not bottles), and they've become a huge pain in the ass.

The flockers travel in feathered biker gangs, think they own the joint, eat everything in sight, treat bird feeders as private stash, attack pets & kids, and will take out a windshield in a heartbeat. The damn things can run about 25 mph and fly at over 50 mph, so a 15 or 20 pound bird can hit hard. They're vying with deer to be the biggest pain in the ass.

The various breeds of wild turkeys are one of the great success stories of wildlife restoration.

As are whitetail deer.

And don't think I ain't made a mental note of where I saw that one up there^^^.:shotgun:

Attacked and bitten on the leg by a rabid Raccoon, she did what any seventy five year old lady would... she strangled the sumbitch.
Well then unlike normal people, she felt bad about being forced to do that. What?:shock:


After the strangling, shoot it :rattat:
axe it :behead:
sledgehammer it :bonk:
crush it :footpyth:
burn it :flamer:
and send it to raccoon hell. :redcard:

Speaking of Racoons ... this guy/gal was in my parents backyard yesterday. He/She was on their front porch last week. They live in suburbia! There should be no racoons around, let alone in the middle of the afternoon. I was 10' from it as it barely walked away from me. Thats as high up the tree as it could go. I walked away and it just hung there for maybe 2 minutes and then came back down and meandered away.

These two were sharing the feeder at my brothers place in CT last weekend. Never again will I wonder if it was a Hairy (left) or a Downy (right) woodpecker. He is ginormous compared to her.

Where's the weasel when you need 'em? ;)

That fella has seen better days.

That raccoon is either very old, or fairly sick. Of course, raccoons can be lighter and darker than the norms, like skunks.

Not too long back I saw a road-killed skunk that had no white on it at all. Everything that would normally be white was as yellow/blond as could be right out to the top of its head.

Canal & River Trust says stop feeding the ducks bread.
Send that bread to Sally Struthers instead.

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Really wild

Awesome!

That last one ... I can't identify it. Looks like a sitting bull, but I'm not positive.

Srsly, great pics! Love the Eagles.

That is a lot of bull sitting there.

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I spotted this Roe Deer about half an hour ago when out with my canine guest.

It was taken in a bit of a hurry with my phone camera so results were never likely to be award winning but there we are. :)

Fargon, you've got a nice view from you patio. Great pictures!

And Carruthers, good job spotting that. I guess it wasn't that far away if you got the shot with your phone, but still, I often don't see a deer until they move.

It was pure luck that I spotted the deer. I was walking from L to R as you look at the picture and just happened to glance to my left and saw the deer watching me. It was only five or six yards away.

I had to take the photo in some haste and in the end had to crop it quite considerably so it isn't exactly a work of art but I think it was worth including here.

More than a little jealous, right now.

Also, I see what's beside the Sun Drop...:D


Also: That eagle in flight in post #322 is outstanding!

Carruthers, what an excellent catch!

I take it that's a fairly rare occurrence where you are?

It is a fairly rare occurrence but deer numbers have been increasing quite markedly in recent years.

However, I think most people only know that deer are around when they spot one at the side of the road which has perished in a traffic collision.

This morning's sighting was only about a quarter of a mile from home on the edge of the town and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

We also get the Muntjac which was an ornamental species introduced to large country estates in the Victorian era. Inevitably, many escaped and they've been breeding over much of southern England for the last century or so.

Its origins are in SE Asia and the Indian sub-continent. It isn't a particularly attractive animal but it's probably the one most often seen.

I certainly wouldn't swap a hundred Muntjac for this morning's Roe Deer.

ETA Thanks Bruce! You posted that as I was typing.:thumb:

Thank You

Thanks for posting those images, fargon.

The highlight of my visits to the USA was seeing the wide variety of wildlife you have.

I shall never forget the flight of Pelicans I saw as I was driving north through Wyoming and the Ospreys in Yellowstone and near the Buffalo Bill dam.

I hope to return one day and with luck I shall add the Bald Eagle to my list of sightings.

It's easier than ever. They have really made a comeback. I saw one on Sunday morning.

There is always at least 25 to 30 around here all day.

I like the word for them... a "convocation"

... much more intriguing that a "murder" of crows
... but not as poetic as a "charm" of hummingbirds

PA Bald Eagle live cam.

Alaska's the home where the Buffalo roam.

How cool is that!

That's a lot of cheeseburgers.

That's a lot of bull.

Burgers? Fuckith not with my people.

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That's just NE of London and the deer have probably come from Epping Forest which is described as 'London's largest open space'.

Interesting, I think of deer(whitetail) as browsers and elk as grazers, but Fallow Deer swing both ways.

I think of them both as steak.

And the occasional casserole, or, meat loaf.

Some think of you as steak.

I'm always thankful that, as I step out of GCOne on the riverbank at night, I don't have to worry about bears, cougars (well, pumas, anyway;)), crocogators, and the like.

Around here, the only thing you need to worry about is be sure to kick some dirt/gravel around when you get out of the car at night. Runs off those pesky cotton-headed-rattle-moccasins.

Walking along the riverbank at night, if you smell cucumbers, stop, and go back the way you came, slowly, and in the same footsteps. Copperheads smell like cucumbers, and they don't run away.

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Yep, that's a bobcat dragging a shark outta the ocean!

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That's a dolphin

Look what the cat dragged in!


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I just found that pic here http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
About a quarter of the way down the page.

I stepped out this morning to get the paper, and the birds were going nuts just after a rainstorm. I decided it was because they had been hiding from the heavy rain, and now that it was clear, so they were all happy.

But then I realized it was a murder of half a dozen or so crows making all the noise, and they were cawing frantically, like it was a warning. I was watching them, over my neighbor's house, when a fox walked up the neighbor's driveway onto our property and trotted casually along our fence. Too fast for me to get the phone out to get a picture, but in no hurry at all. I clapped my hands loudly to see if I would spook it, but it just ignored me and continued slowly on its way.

The funny thing was, the crows kept pace with it and were cawing a warning the whole time. After I couldn't see the fox any more, I could still see the crows circling and cawing their way slowly up the neighborhood.

I wonder who the crows were trying to warn? Was it just a general warning for all birds in the area, or for other crows? I thought it was pretty cool. A coordinated defense. Seemed awfully charitable of them, since they were in no threat of the fox.

What did the fox say?




A fox at home is pretty cool. Most people go their entire lives without seeing a live fox. Even in the country, it's pretty rare to see a fox.

Was it a red fox, or a gray fox? I'm assuming it wasn't a Redd Foxx. Or a Jamie Foxx.

I started to ask if it was a Michael J. Fox.

But, I thought that might be a little shaky.

lol

Made me remember this:

Daily Telegraph

I hope that this pair breed successfully. It's an eye opener how some raptors have successfully adapted to urban surroundings.
I posted somewhere on the Cellar about the Peregrine Falcons that have nested on the County Council tower block in Aylesbury in recent years.
They have also flourished in London and provincial cities with church and cathedral steeples being favourite nesting spots.