Gee, I wonder why....common sense is a thing of the past..
Yeah, I think it went Extinct back in the 80's.................
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Yeah, I think it went Extinct back in the 80's.................
80's or 90's, after 2000 got worse. Seems though common sense is has become a pariah lately..
Respect has become pc, charity replaced by greed...
Too bad you didn't have the Smart Phone ready to snap a pic @DaBunny would love to see the wildlife~!
I had the dog with me and they blended in with the brush...
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I spooked a bobcat once, here on our property, right after we bought it and before we were actually living here. It had been part of a huge farm so people had been scarce in the area, probably always. There is a very old graveyard in one small section of trees, and hubbs and I were kind of inching through that area, looking at graves and the one headstone in there. I took one step too many toward the back of that plot, and I heard a sound that I can't even describe - like halfway between a loud hiss and a growl. I saw movement in among some leaves and small branches at the edge of the woods, and I just froze. But there was no misunderstanding that I needed to NOT go any closer.
Shortly after that, we saw some of their tracks in a muddy area, cat tracks nearly as big around as a softball. I'd have loved a glimpse of one of them, but from a good distance would have been fine with me.
We have big bears here, too, and they have grown in population a lot over the last decade. Hubbs has gotten all kinds of pics of them on his wildlife cameras.
One time Camping Upstate I forget where it was but I heard a noise outside the tent. Took my Lantern and lit it to look outside, Face to face with a Bobcat~! To this day I don't know who was more scared but I grabbed my Loaded Shotgun~! He hissed and growled right in my face but was gone before I had my protection.
I live on the edge of a small city, but we have black bear, coyote and deer. I know bobcat are all over but they are usually nocturnal. In the last ten years the wildlife has been booming here.
Same here and that is due to the Pandemic. People are not outside. We have always had Raccoons here but more now and Birds like you wouldn't believe and the Squirrels fuck with me when I am in the backyard. Had one recently throw an Acorn at me. Not that he dropped it he literally threw it at me. I picked it up and almost nailed him in the ass with it~!
I live in the Suburbs, near a Sump or drainage ditch for storm runoff with a Schoolyard behind us, but birds almost fly into my head like Elaine on Seinfeld~!
I live in the Suburbs, near a Sump or drainage ditch for storm runoff with a Schoolyard behind us, but birds almost fly into my head like Elaine on Seinfeld~!
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I think around here people are moving north and driving the wildlife down. I saw rabbits the other day and there haven't been any around for maybe 20 years... Could be what the bobcat in...
Lived at a place having chicken houses in a pasture abutting a woods. A fellow and his family came in to check the houses for the poultry company. We three boys being country boys had spotted cat tracks around the houses.
I had even tracked it back to a den. Come one night I rode up to check the houses with the fellow, his boys. I heard the cat setting up in the wood's edge. Foolish boy went out and got the mama cat to chase me.
Heard one of his boys yell to get down. Then, heard several pops as I slid up under his pickup truck. He had got a .45 pistol from under his seat, one of his boys had a 12 ga shotgun, the other a 30/30 rifle. Betwixt them they killed the cat.
Next day they come in and brought the game warden. I led them to the den where the warden brought out four kits. They got took to the station and would get released elsewhere once grown. That run in with a bobcat entailed a real bobcat.
Had another incident involving a fake bobcat. Went up on a hill with a wood near my grandma's. Uncle Buddy had come up along behind me, stayed out of sight. I heard a bobcat off to my rear, least I thought did. Got down to grandma's to meet with my uncle.
He asked if I had heard and made the distinct "crying" call of a bobcat. Pap chuckled. I wound up shaking my head. We all chuckled. Grandma asked if I got chased by a bobcat. Told her its name was Buddy, she laughed.
Have seen one here. It traveled off and away though, not seen it since and hope to not. Not gravely concerned over the bobcat. Got more concern over the coyotes in the area, & ticks.
I had even tracked it back to a den. Come one night I rode up to check the houses with the fellow, his boys. I heard the cat setting up in the wood's edge. Foolish boy went out and got the mama cat to chase me.
Heard one of his boys yell to get down. Then, heard several pops as I slid up under his pickup truck. He had got a .45 pistol from under his seat, one of his boys had a 12 ga shotgun, the other a 30/30 rifle. Betwixt them they killed the cat.
Next day they come in and brought the game warden. I led them to the den where the warden brought out four kits. They got took to the station and would get released elsewhere once grown. That run in with a bobcat entailed a real bobcat.
Had another incident involving a fake bobcat. Went up on a hill with a wood near my grandma's. Uncle Buddy had come up along behind me, stayed out of sight. I heard a bobcat off to my rear, least I thought did. Got down to grandma's to meet with my uncle.
He asked if I had heard and made the distinct "crying" call of a bobcat. Pap chuckled. I wound up shaking my head. We all chuckled. Grandma asked if I got chased by a bobcat. Told her its name was Buddy, she laughed.
Have seen one here. It traveled off and away though, not seen it since and hope to not. Not gravely concerned over the bobcat. Got more concern over the coyotes in the area, & ticks.
Here's a cougar at my moms home in her driveway. It's from her trail cam.
A Bobcat at my home walking towards the driveway
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A Bobcat at my home walking towards the driveway
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Here's a cougar at my moms home in her driveway. It's from her trail cam.
A Bobcat at my home walking towards the driveway
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Seems to me, that's when you know you'd better make plenty of noise as you go out the door...give those critters a chance to get the hell out of there. I can just see myself taking off out the front door in my nightgown one night, and running smack into a cougar or a bobcat between the front door and my car.
I saw the hind end of a cougar going into the trees not too long ago. I was driving, on my way to town, and this happened about 3 miles from my house. The game and fishery people here in this part of Virginia all swear that there are no cougars here, but people near us have found pics on them on trail cams, and I know good and well what I saw that day.
Bobcat is enough cat for me. The idea of a cougar in the woods here just scares me silly.
that's the best end to see.....
No panthers in WV either but plenty enough of us have seen them. They also recently started repopulating Eastern Timber wolves at different spots in the state. I know there's otters, badger up this way as well. Otters don't normally fret over chickens. Still I've heard of them eating chicken on occasion.
Next door neighbors all city like trying to live in country. They let their chickens roam free. The cats up in the barn get a chicken, not my concern. More than enough other predators around what could get chicken. Fox, coyote, wolf, skunk, badger, possibly otter, snakes, bobcats, bear, panther and that's simply ones i can name off hand.
last night i loaded a post den. deleted.
den loaded ... den deleted again...
was afraid of Jacking da room..
yet TODAY am seeing COUGARS? and rogue deers ..
so am Loading again...
some of da Birds out Da window
all taken from inside the house.
steves right.. I love critters
den loaded ... den deleted again...
was afraid of Jacking da room..
yet TODAY am seeing COUGARS? and rogue deers ..
so am Loading again...
some of da Birds out Da window
all taken from inside the house.
steves right.. I love critters
Why afraid of posting? Post whatever you like as long as not Political (Da Rulze)~!
want i should delete da eagle?
No. May be symbol of the nation but it's also an indigenous people symbol. Eagles imho are not seen as political. They a bird more than anything else. Pretty birds too. Torn between watching them or osprey hunt. Yes I know eagles are osprey types of birds, what I'm meaning is osprey out over oceans/seas the osprey hawks.
Nope... here we like eagles, hawks and doves......any subject in reasonably good taste.....or not
.... as long as we vape together.....
Not at all~! Not my Rulze it is the forum about Politics.
Trivia: Ben Franklin picked the Wild Turkey to be the national symbol....
He might have been on to something.....
WE HAVE wild Turkeys out here.
Have seen them 3 times never with my camera.
an do i BITCH when dat happens...
cuz its ALWAYS when am told oooooooo you don't need to take THAT thing along do you???
love my camera.
WILD turkeys are HARD to spot.
Never have a camera with me, at least when I need one.... Wild Turkey's have been reintroduced here in ct....at first they were everywhere...since coyotes showed up haven't seen many...
In these times we’re living in, we shouldn’t have to apologize for being patriotic. God bless this country!
Nope... here we like eagles, hawks and doves......any subject in reasonably good taste.....or not
Cripes. Complaints about eagles? The rulez are no porn and no hatred. There’s enough weirdo hatred in a lotta other places. Lol
Good morning Rhianne, remember ole Ben flew a kite in a t-storm, might have been known as BBQ Ben....Cool fact, AJ. Edible, drinkable and patriotic!
Hiya Bunny! Good to see you. Hope you and Sparky are good. What kind of baby birds are those? They’re adorable!!
Robins
had them from EGG to their first flight
she is coxing them from branch to branch with worms
they were really fun and NOT afraid of Da bunny or camera.
I’ve seen Robins on my lawn, but not where they were nesting. I did hear Mallards flying by and honking. They stop at a nearby lake that’s now a Preserve. I think they’re Mallards. They’re white with some color.
GET OFF MY LAWN......
Television kills brain cells.....
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