Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I keep looking at pictures on line to help identify different raptors but they all start to look the same to me!

You can't tell chicken breeds apart how are you going to do raptors?

Seriously though I just look for large birds with light colored bottoms and dark tops. Those are our raptors.

 

[BY Bob]

OK lets see if I posted this to YouTube correctly:

Fluffy vs Snake

Good job Fluffy! Yum!

 

[BY Bob]

I guess I am expected to stand.
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Not at my house. Aurora always cedes the chair back to me when I ask.

 

[BY Bob]

Fluffy is a very useful chicken to have around. Daisy is my resident snake eater. I really do not want to know how many she has eaten, 5 that I know of. It has to be more because she has her technique for killing them down pat. She grabs them behind the head and gives a quick shake to pop off their heads. She eats the body and leaves the heads.

Of course! Don't you know snake heads are yucky.

 

[BY Bob]

Aww, thank you for the Christmas card, everyone in the BY Bob household!

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I was going to post that once I knew they got to Australia!

 

[BY Bob]

Happy Friday

 

[bgmathteach]

Not at my house. Aurora always cedes the chair back to me when I ask.

Hmmm....that's only because Aurora has a large personal space requirement and you just crowd it!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

They look dark to me live but I only ever see them against the sky. Could it be a turkey vulture?

"From a distance a soaring Turkey Vulture might look like a Red-tailed Hawk, but Turkey Vultures have longer, more rectangular wings, which the birds hold above horizontal, forming an easily visible V. Turkey Vultures are also much less steady when they soar."
Good comparison pictures & info of Red-Tail vs Turkey Vulture, both have visible separate feathers on the wing tips:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-tailed_Hawk/species-compare/60317261

 

[Ponypoor]

I was going to post that once I knew they got to Australia!

Awesome pic of Phyllis

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Happy Friday
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RIP dear Sansa!