Pets around the house

[(CUB HUT)]

Thought I would share these with you folks--( in the yard today )
Fed the deer and turkeys all winter now it looks like I need to start shopping for road kill

[Don McCombs]

Nice looking gobbler. Looks like a double beard.

[ljw]

Thanks for posting. You have a heckuva back yard.

[spiveyman]

GORGEOUS pics!!

[KETCHAM]

Not someting you see every day,huh!!! Great Pics!!!Kevin

[Scott]

wow

[Redman]

[Ron Luebke]

cool

[(CUB HUT)]

Rick, as you said the eagle came back 3 times --we tried to use a road kill to keep him coming back but he was up on that game. Sure was nice to have him around , there is quite a few pairs on the lake here,see them all the time but that time was special..
As far as the turkeys they are around off and on all winter ,as long as the corn is out for them . they are not around much in the summer --too much outside activities going on--lawn mowing ect.,they stay off in the woods With season coming at the end of the week who knows where they will scatter too.

[Phillip W. Lenke]

Quality,Special permit required?
Here are my endangered specied in Ohio. Hand rasied permit required.Trumpeter Swans.

[ljw]

While this doesn't compare to these great pics, today the dogs and me were walking out to the pond. On the way there, a chicken hawk came crashing down into the water. He didn't look very graceful at it, but it must have worked. He did have a fish, I think, in his mouth when he flew away. And it happened in a matter of seconds.
Larry

[George Willer]

We see an occasional eagle in flight but never a wild turkey. Our county has the highest number of nesting eagles in the state. Years ago we had a lot of pheasants, but now they may be even rarer than eagles. It's been nearly 60 years since I've seen a hen. Shooting clubs occasionally release cockbirds (and we do see then on rare occasion) but never hens. Imagine my surprise to see this critter this morning!

http://gwill.net/Album/Homestead/Garden_&_Farm/hen%20pheasant.jpg

[beaconlight]

We get quite a few Ospreys in Franklin. We are between the Susquehana river and the Deleware river. Quite often they circle our pond and when you see the wings forl and the lwgs out stretched it is time fopr a fish dinner. They hit the water with a mighty splash and shortly after wings are beating the water with the osprey soon airbornand a good sized bass in the talons. Then it is off to one of the large troos overlooking the river. Very inspiring view of mother nature in action. I never seem to have a camera handy when it happens. Turkeys are a dime a dozen. Hens and poults going up and down a field catching bugs.

[Kodiak]

Neat Dave really nice shots. We had turkey around here until a year or two ago. I got these shots this evening on the edge of a window outside the highend of the house.



Then these from inside the house thru a screen.



Mommy didn't like the picture taking so I waited till she left for a minute to get the contents picture....we'll see what develops in a few more days

[Paul B]

Several years ago I had an office where there were windows behind my desk chair and a Robin built a nest in a holly tree just outside the window. She used that nest for three summers, repairing it as needed, and then the forth year finally built a new one on the next branch up the tree, using nest material from the old nest in the new one. Although the nest was only about 3 foot from my seated position, my movements never bothered the Robin, she would just sit and watch me, or go about her business as usual. I have know way of knowing if it was the same Robin every year, but if not it sure got use to people very quickly every year. And then the base and all the facilities were relocated, the old buildings torn down, and my new office was on the second floor of a new building, and had no windows. I missed my Robin.