calling any one from missouri

[OhZark Biddies]

@SueT are you still seeing that raptor hanging around?

I had about 30-40 turkey vultures in a tree near my bone pile yesterday. I tried to get close to get a photo but they spooked off and turned the sky black as they flew off... I've never seen that many at one time before.

JT

@jthornton

I kept meaning to post these here and forgetting ... here are some pictures of some big birds from last week, feeding on a critter carcass I put out in the woods away from the house

I’m hoping to get some good ones this week with the snow too

Buzzards/vultures


Red tailed hawks sorting in out



Red shouldered hawk



An eagle

 

[karenerwin]

@jthornton

I kept meaning to post these here and forgetting ... here are some pictures of some big birds from last week, feeding on a critter carcass I put out in the woods away from the house

I’m hoping to get some good ones this week with the snow too

Buzzards/vultures
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Red tailed hawks sorting in out
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Red shouldered hawk
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An eagle
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Did you sit and wait to get the pictures or did you use a trail cam? They turned out fabulous!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Did you sit and wait to get the pictures or did you use a trail cam? They turned out fabulous!

Those are trail camera pictures... but now you have me wanting to set up a blind and go sit!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

and I just packed away my swim suit!
Bipolar weather!

 

[karenerwin]

This is how much snow we ended up with. This was from today. The snow on the side of the red car is piled up from me shoveling, but the part in front of the car and on top of the car is from the snow falling.

 

[SueT]

As this is the last icy morning for at least 10 days, I took some pics. It is pretty, but I was singing "let it melt, let it melt, let it melt...."
The last pic is of the formerly invisible cat, now Kippy. He just let me pet him for t he first time 2 days ago! We're making progress. Where he sleeps, or how he keeps warm enough, I don't know. But he seems to be alive and well.

 

[jthornton]

The last pic is of the formerly invisible cat, now Kippy. He just let me pet him for t he first time 2 days ago! We're making progress. Where he sleeps, or how he keeps warm enough, I don't know. But he seems to be alive and well.

Kippy is pretty and looks like he is suspicious of everything. It takes a while to gain their trust. I found where Woody had her litter of kittens, under some leaves in a depression in the ground. It had just enough twigs laying over the hole to hold the roof of leaves up. It is only about 4" deep.

JT

 

[karenerwin]

Kippy is pretty and looks like he is suspicious of everything. It takes a while to gain their trust. I found where Woody had her litter of kittens, under some leaves in a depression in the ground. It had just enough twigs laying over the hole to hold the roof of leaves up. It is only about 4" deep.

JT

How long ago did Woody have a litter of kittens?

 

[jthornton]

She had them sometime in the summer and they all died pretty quick except one that lived for a week or so, then I got her spayed and she chilled out quite a bit. Unfortunately a feral dog killed her one day. Still hunting that dog...

JT

 

[jthornton]

I wonder if my hens know how to count from 1 to 7... they hear me count every night when I tuck them in...

JT