Feathered Friends
 

came a struttin by this mornin... 20 in all ..... groups of -em
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...1/turkeys2.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...b1/turkeys.jpg

Sweet / that,s when the moment is priceless ><><:rotf2:

thats awesome

Youv'e got some good eating and fly tying feathers in that yard!

There are some really awesome pellet guns on the market right now.Tremendous velocities.ZZZZZZIIIIIPPPPPP.Where's the cranberry sauce?

Great pic Rav, very few acorns around this year to keep em' fed.

funny you should mention it...about the acorns...

the day before! i walked around the perimiter of the garden

tossing a gallon of sunflower seeds ....for the birds......

i don't know why... it was an automatic action....

and the turkeys were the result. :claps:

A couple of years ago I had about 20 of them in the front yard...Must have been the acorns...My understanding is that acorns have a bumper crop every other year???:huh:

feathered friends#2
 

i was sitting here sending a PM and noticed something big and long
heading my direction and grabbed the digital camera quickly.

they come and go so fast.... :hihi: eating the bread i threw out there for the bluejays.... so for you turkey hunters..... here's what i just saw.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6.../turkeys-1.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...turkeys2-1.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...1/turkeys3.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...1/turkeys4.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...1/turkeys5.jpg

and off they go "following the leader" this took like 5 minutes.

camera? you should have grabbed a shotgun :uhuh:

sunflower seed eating FOX
 

i had noticed the snow melting first under this pine tree and you can see my tracks to it
....yesterday, where i spread 5 pounds of seed
and attracted this red Fox this morning.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ob1/redfox.jpg

Raven
 

Cool picture

saw the stalking of prey today
 

(what a site!) sorry no photos ...as it happened to fast.

this morning ...i was drinking my coffee ...right...

and out pops the Same red Fox who is about to make

tracks and then it stops short... because it "heard something"

over the edge of the hillside .....unaware of it's presence ....

some animal /bird was eating some seeds i threw there.... so.....

similar to a cat approach ...it made several crouched...short

approaches... until it sees his prey and freezes solid...motionless

then suddenly it leaps threw the air....with the bushy tail stretched

out perfectly straight for perfect trajectory and disappears over the

edge vanishing out of site.... i know he scored ! :btu:

:rolleyes: dats a lot more than I gots....

Tom, #^&#^&#^&#^& and Harry back again today....

finally got the Tom
 

they came thru....again and i got this picture this morning.
not the greatest clarity but you get the idea
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/tom.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/tom2.jpg

Craig if you put shredded oleander root sprinkled with oil of neoprophillisis flower out they will stay longer :hee:

nice shots

:o)
 

i will be opening a herb store someday.
rest assured.
~
i remember being stopped by the texas rangers on one of my cross country adventures leaving california back to the east coast...as i move allot and especially like new climates.

These good old boys thought they found the mother load of drugs when searching the van they found
a big package of bagged up herbs that all looked like weed.

They were all giddy now excited about their big bust.... so, i calmly explained to them that i am a herbalist and that all the bags are labeled and are all different smells and textures. well they wouldn't have any of that tall story and out came the handcuffs....

you could do life in prison for a single pot seed just about in texas... friggan idiotic laws...:hs:

then one
officer who by luck was also a gardener said....no he's right and he doesn't have this huge stash...and deflated
their ego's much to their dissatisfaction and they let us go...but not before i gave them a history lesson they'll never forget.

More nice turkey shots, Rav. My son's father in law has had 6 in his yard for over a year. One morning last spring he went out the door to his car and 1 attacked him, wouldn't let him near the car.:hihi: I have a feeling it was a female and had her chicks around the car somewhere.
I seperated a mother from her chicks in the woods one day, she gobbled and the chicks just froze so camo'd you couldn't see them, and she just tried to draw all the attention to herself. Cool stuff. :)