Those turtles look like they are laying on top of an alligator.
It looks like a peaceful beautiful area!
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It looks like a peaceful beautiful area!
jazzies mum
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^^^^^Beautiful pics! A shame about the swan though. 
Agree. Swans mate for life. That breaks my heart.A shame about the swan though.
That's incredible. We have the wood boring ones and they are annoying. But I've never seen one bore through concrete!I have heard of leaf cutter wasps and bees that drill into wood but this wasp is actually cutting into my cement pillar making tiny drill holes.
My horse vet was here last Thursday and told me he stopped 3 times to move turtles off the road on the way here! A couple were snapping turtles. He said he was deputizing me to keep an eye out.
I told him I stopped to get a snake off the road recently but haven't seen any turtles yet. 
Oh, that's sad! I know they mate for life. Will they seek out another when one dies?
Our daughter and the twins are here for a week. The first morning (Saturday) we all got up and had coffee on the deck. My daughter turns to me and says, " Can I borrow your gun?" 
"And why do you need my gun??"
To shoot the birds that start making noise at 4:57 AM!!
Later, she hears my little Wren and says, "That's the culprit!"
Awww, my little Wren?? She's a beautiful singer and I have a birdhouse for her every year! Pretty close to your window upstairs!
Its something we joke about almost every time she is here in summer.
"And why do you need my gun??"
To shoot the birds that start making noise at 4:57 AM!!
Later, she hears my little Wren and says, "That's the culprit!"
Awww, my little Wren?? She's a beautiful singer and I have a birdhouse for her every year! Pretty close to your window upstairs!
Its something we joke about almost every time she is here in summer.
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Our daughter and the twins are here for a week. The first morning (Saturday) we all got up and had coffee on the deck. My daughter turns to me and says, " Can I borrow your gun?"
"And why do you need my gun??"
To shoot the birds that start making noise at 4:57 AM!!
Later, she hears my little Wren and says, "That's the culprit!"
Awww, my little Wren?? She's a beautiful singer and I have a birdhouse for her every year! Pretty close to your window upstairs!
Its something we joke about almost every time she is here in summer.
Are they enjoying their new digs!?
Well we did put up a perimeter to keep the dogs away from the babies. (not sure why we're hanging on to a broken chair...)
This picture is from the other day. Eyes were still closed but they were pretty wiggly
I checked on them this morning though and they were gone
No signs of struggle but not sure they'd put up much of a fight. Not sure if Momma moved them or one of our foxes or coyotes found them.
Oh my God yes! They love it! Yesterday the Bunkie boards arrived and made the beds perfect.
Things like this just just stress me so. We had a bird build a nest in the peak of my horse barn. On the inside. And of course this is what happens. And the overhead door is open so they actually land on the door first but then of course they maneuver their way to the edge and fall to the concrete. One is dead on top of the door. And there were two down here on the concrete. One was still breathing but looked dead and another one was kind of moving around. I just came back and now there's a third one. He is moving the other two are dead. I don't think the other one is long for this world. I just want to do something but I can't! I don't even know what to do. I just hate to see them suffer but stepping on them like some people would suggest is just not in my heart. And I know it's probably an easier death. I don't see the mother. I have left them alone hoping she would come back but these guys look too young to have left the nest. Just breaks my heart. I may scoop them up and put them under a tree or something because the sun will be moving upon them soon. For sure that will kill them.
Such a shame. All that nurturing and probably none of them made it.
My husband is going to close up that hole as best he can and hope that they cannot get back in there to build another nest!
Why doesn't that mother come back here and tend to them?!
That's so sad MB.
Damn it, the big black visitor was back again last night...
Hubby heard a loud bang up here and thought it was me or Albert but when he came up we were both sound asleep on the couch, then he looked out on the deck and realized it was a bear again. He woke me up and it was already off the deck so I grabbed a camera and headed outside to try to catch some pics. By the time I got out there it was back on the deck so I walked out to get a photo from the bottom of the steps.
Terrible, terrible photo since it was totally dark, I had the camera on the wrong setting and hubby was pulling me back in the garage saying "get out of there now". LOL
The eyes as it came off the camera. How would you like to step out and see that staring at you a few feet away?
And you could tell what it was after I enhanced it a bit.
Damn it, the big black visitor was back again last night...
Hubby heard a loud bang up here and thought it was me or Albert but when he came up we were both sound asleep on the couch, then he looked out on the deck and realized it was a bear again. He woke me up and it was already off the deck so I grabbed a camera and headed outside to try to catch some pics. By the time I got out there it was back on the deck so I walked out to get a photo from the bottom of the steps.
Terrible, terrible photo since it was totally dark, I had the camera on the wrong setting and hubby was pulling me back in the garage saying "get out of there now". LOL
The eyes as it came off the camera. How would you like to step out and see that staring at you a few feet away?
And you could tell what it was after I enhanced it a bit.
Ah...NO, just plain NO!! I would rather walk out and trip over a gator than a bear!!
jazzies mum
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That's too much cheeky predator for me too! 
Oh, hell no! It may as well have been Bigfoot! No no no. And I don't want to trip over an alligator either!
At least it looks like he's more afraid of you than you are of him! The look on his face in the enhanced photo looks like he's almost apologetic! LOL like, Sorry! But I'll be back.
It was.That's so sad MB.
None of them made it. I was telling my neighbor with the 7 Fjords and she says she has the same problem. Maybe worse. Inside her little run-in, birds are making nests all the time. And they fall down onto the concrete where the horses come in and step on them. She said she's trying to shoo them out all the time and maybe one over the summer will make it. I said, I know there's probably thousands of birds and these are just a few casualties but it was just too sad to watch.
Funny how you say something sometimes and then it happens. I was driving the other day and there was a slight slowdown in traffic and when I get up to the intersection there is a lady standing by her stopped car. I figured she was having car trouble but when I drove past I realized she was standing next to a very large turtle. Trying to shoo it out of the way of traffic. I had that split-second decision of wanting to stop to help her but having cars behind me and no place to pull over! Darn it. I really wanted to help. It was a large turtle and may have been a snapping one. My first thought was, what do I have in my car that I can help her with. But traffic just kept me going. I will always wonder how she did.My horse vet was here last Thursday and told me he stopped 3 times to move turtles off the road on the way here! A couple were snapping turtles. He said he was deputizing me to keep an eye out.
LOL and it was back on the deck early this morning. Albert must have heard it this time so he went over to bark at it and it was a totally different bark, not to mention he didn't get close to the glass like he does most other things. I looked out a different window at the same time and there were 2 fox out there.
It may not be as scared right now because I saw at least one other one in the shadows by our Morton building and hubby brought it to my attention that it might be a cub or two. If that's the case, she wouldn't have much of a sense of humor...
Haha, um, no. No sense of humor! Be careful.
Found this lil guy in the live trap this morning.
I’ve been trapping squirrels during the day. Forgot to spring it at dark to prevent, well, this. Or worse.
Ultimate nightmare...finding a skunk in that trap in the morning.
So then the conundrum.
Just go let it go in the groves?
Or in the pickup bed of the punk ass kid in our neighborhood I hate
I’ve been trapping squirrels during the day. Forgot to spring it at dark to prevent, well, this. Or worse.
Ultimate nightmare...finding a skunk in that trap in the morning.
So then the conundrum.
Just go let it go in the groves?
Or in the pickup bed of the punk ass kid in our neighborhood I hate
crypticintent
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Turtle?
Friend!
Friend!
Bogie grabs the box turtles here and brings them into the bed. I don’t know why he loves them but he does.
Around here (horse country) the only good possum is a dead possum. They spread disease; most feared EPM. I've actually shot a couple myself. Cried afterward, (I am not a hunter!) but would cry harder if my horse had that disease! My friend has a horse that contracted the disease. The horse went through an exPENsive treatment and was saved but is now only a Pasture Ornament (as we call a horse that can no longer be ridden but kept as a pet.So then the conundrum.
Just go let it go in the groves?
Or in the pickup bed of the punk ass kid in our neighborhood I hate
) If you would have seen the horse before treatment you would shoot every possum you ever saw! Very sad. I DID catch a couple of baby possums in a live trap that I didn't have the heart to shoot. I drove them across the river to the other side and let them loose in a wooded area, threatening them if they ever made it back to my house!
