Falcon hazard!

[jevon]

Originally Posted by Ol' Bob

I've made up with most of the critters now:

I've got one of them critters that's gonna get strangled if I catch him in the act. The night after I put fish in my pond the mf'er woke us up snacking on the goldfish. I built a handy dandy cover (my avatar) to keep the sonsab!tches out and it worked for a couple months. Woke up the other day and noticed the bastards had just walked across it sticking their grubby little paws through and ripped up my waterlily and water hyacinths. My goldfish are over 6" now and if another one ends up missing I'm gonna shimmy up that tree and throw down a coonskin hat or two!

[erp]

Could be an overpopulation issue - I had a similar incident a couple weeks ago at Dabney that I wrote about in another thread - there was a second-year fawn between me and the basket, eating apples oblivious to us.

My up shot flew by about 15 feet from his head and he barely flinched, kinda started a bit and then strolled away trying to look cool after my buddy threw his shot...neither of us placed the deer in any danger, however, if I was under 18, that sucker would have been converted to venison!

If you squint you can see the deer lined up with the basket, in this crappy iphone shot...

Originally Posted by Uhlman

Over crowding??? I know in my area, because of the long spring, the deer population exploded and because the deer population exploded the predator population exploded. The cougar population in the Umatilla NF was about one cougar for ever three square miles. That's a lot of cat in a small area. Their normal population is about one for every 20 sq miles.

[erp]

You think you've got it bad - I have a racoon that's been coming into my back yard and raping my douglas fir.

Yes, you read that right...the racoon is the pervert of the animal kingdom...

There's this little lump by the root with a little hole in it to add to the whole disquieting situation....I've been trying to get video, but I'm usually asleep when it happens, and the silent screams of the doug fir do not waken me...

Originally Posted by jevon

I've got one of them critters that's gonna get strangled if I catch him in the act. The night after I put fish in my pond the mf'er woke us up snacking on the goldfish. I built a handy dandy cover (my avatar) to keep the sonsab!tches out and it worked for a couple months. Woke up the other day and noticed the bastards had just walked across it sticking their grubby little paws through and ripped up my waterlily and water hyacinths. My goldfish are over 6" now and if another one ends up missing I'm gonna shimmy up that tree and throw down a coonskin hat or two!

[Uhlman]

Originally Posted by erp

You think you've got it bad - I have a racoon that's been coming into my back yard and raping my douglas fir.

Yes, you read that right...the racoon is the pervert of the animal kingdom...

There's this little lump by the root with a little hole in it to add to the whole disquieting situation....I've been trying to get video, but I'm usually asleep when it happens, and the silent screams of the doug fir do not waken me...

my dad uses a co2 bb pistol to protect teh fish in his pond. Pain is about the only thing the little pests understand

[Scott]

Originally Posted by erp

You think you've got it bad - I have a racoon that's been coming into my back yard and raping my douglas fir.

Yes, you read that right...the racoon is the pervert of the animal kingdom...

There's this little lump by the root with a little hole in it to add to the whole disquieting situation....I've been trying to get video, but I'm usually asleep when it happens, and the silent screams of the doug fir do not waken me...

Place a mousetrap inside the little hole. Problem solved.

[Ol' Bob]

Originally Posted by erp

You think you've got it bad - I have a racoon that's been coming into my back yard and raping my douglas fir.

Yes, you read that right...the racoon is the pervert of the animal kingdom...

There's this little lump by the root with a little hole in it to add to the whole disquieting situation....I've been trying to get video, but I'm usually asleep when it happens, and the silent screams of the doug fir do not waken me...

Only a natural thing for him to do with his woody.

[Matt B.]

Originally Posted by Ol' Bob

Only a natural thing for him to do with his woody.

That's knot funny!

[erp]

These puns, they're killing me!

[Tad]

I sense a hijacking here. A punny one though.

[Matt B.]

Originally Posted by Tad

I sense a hijacking here. A punny one though.

The humor is pulpable.

[Ol' Bob]

The raptorous laughter will get us back on topic.

[TreeLove]

He is just enjoying his fir pie.

[LakeStevensBA]

that's how Treelove got his nickname..

[NWDiscer]

Originally Posted by LakeStevensBA

that's how Treelove got his nickname..

OH SNAPPITY SNAP SNAP....

[Ol' Bob]

Originally Posted by LakeStevensBA

that's how Treelove got his nickname..

I know he drives a mean Scion.

Originally Posted by Dictionary.com

sci⋅on: n.: a shoot or twig

[Sausage Fingers]

Originally Posted by Ol' Bob

I had the Battle of the Chicken Yard with a coopers hawk once. Sadly, I won. The hawk would come in, zig-zagging under the canopy, like Eric said, picking off our young chickens. I can't believe I actually got it with a .22. If I ever have chickens again, they will have netting over them. Though it was over 40 years ago, shooting that raptor was hard on my spirit.

And you're lucky the statute of limitations has expired on that Federal offense you committed there Ol' Bob. Migratory Bird Treaty and all.

My wife, who is a licensed Falconer in the State of Oregon concurs with Eric's fine diagnosis. Falcons wouldn't hunt in the trees.

The TreeLove smack is priceless!

[Ol' Bob]

Originally Posted by Sausage Fingers

And you're lucky the statute of limitations has expired on that Federal offense you committed there Ol' Bob. Migratory Bird Treaty and all.

Coming out of L.A. a dumb kid, and basically taught no respect for nature, taught by my father to kill any and all predators, actually, I have evolved so far as to not shoot at any wildlife. Marauding dogs and killer tomcats best stay wide of here though.

Forty years ago, I worked with a guy who told me that if I ate meat and didn't do my own butchering, I was just making Safeway my hired gun. I took this idea to heart. I raised meat for some years and found it hard to know the animals I ate. I took up hunting and ended up quitting all meat for years. I'll still murder fish and eat them, but I don't buy any meat. We've all agreed to make Lucky Mud and my adjoining property a wildlife sanctuary, which is the first reason we don't want dogs brought here.

I've worked with the Fish and Game cop and the Sheriff's Dept. to bust poachers. I wrote a public letter critical of hounding and got seriously beaten up for my trouble and told I was being taken out to the woods to be killed. I think I've paid some dues at this point. Many of my "No Hunting" signs got painted over last year. The hunters are pissed because I put my signs too high up to be easily taken down. I think the surveyors painted my signs with their paint can extensions.

[emmarose]

Originally Posted by Ol' Bob

Coming out of L.A. a dumb kid, and basically taught no respect for nature, taught by my father to kill any and all predators, actually, I have evolved so far as to not shoot at any wildlife. Marauding dogs and killer tomcats best stay wide of here though.

Forty years ago, I worked with a guy who told me that if I ate meat and didn't do my own butchering, I was just making Safeway my hired gun. I took this idea to heart. I raised meat for some years and found it hard to know the animals I ate. I took up hunting and ended up quitting all meat for years. I'll still murder fish and eat them, but I don't buy any meat. We've all agreed to make Lucky Mud and my adjoining property a wildlife sanctuary, which is the first reason we don't want dogs brought here.

I've worked with the Fish and Game cop and the Sheriff's Dept. to bust poachers. I wrote a public letter critical of hounding and got seriously beaten up for my trouble and told I was being taken out to the woods to be killed. I think I've paid some dues at this point. Many of my "No Hunting" signs got painted over last year. The hunters are pissed because I put my signs too high up to be easily taken down. I think the surveyors painted my signs with their paint can extensions.

More importantly than "paying your dues" you have genuinely learned the error of your younger ways and the unfortunate teachings you were raised with...obviously you still feel pain over this...you probably always will...I hit a hawk with my suby a couple years ago and it still fills me with anguish when I think about it...nearly had to give up driving, I felt like I was some kind of traveling death machine (cats, small birds, chippies, frogs, newts...the hawk was the worst)...

You are living a lifestyle of care and compassion and I'm sure the spirit of that chickenhawk knows you are different, changed and wiser man than you once were.

and that's a total bummer about your signs being painted over and people hassling you about hounding...I've had a little bit of trouble with drunk ass poachers, but really good support from the county sheriff and state troopers out here and haven't had any trouble for the last couple of years.

peace threw disc golf,
emmarose

[erp]

Pulling into Milo a couple years ago for the Hab Rec I had a strange deja vu back to my youth hunting...I remember thinking how much better it was to be throwing than hunting since success in the latter basically means winding up the day armpits deep in the corpse of another beast.

People with big opinions about their need/right/proclivity to eat meat who have never taken an animal from cradle to plate are people with uninformed opinions.

Granted, after 15 years of not eating much meat at all, I have taken to calling bacon a fruit...time for some reflection I suppose...

Originally Posted by Ol' Bob

Coming out of L.A. a dumb kid, and basically taught no respect for nature, taught by my father to kill any and all predators, actually, I have evolved so far as to not shoot at any wildlife. Marauding dogs and killer tomcats best stay wide of here though.

Forty years ago, I worked with a guy who told me that if I ate meat and didn't do my own butchering, I was just making Safeway my hired gun. I took this idea to heart. I raised meat for some years and found it hard to know the animals I ate. I took up hunting and ended up quitting all meat for years. I'll still murder fish and eat them, but I don't buy any meat. We've all agreed to make Lucky Mud and my adjoining property a wildlife sanctuary, which is the first reason we don't want dogs brought here.

I've worked with the Fish and Game cop and the Sheriff's Dept. to bust poachers. I wrote a public letter critical of hounding and got seriously beaten up for my trouble and told I was being taken out to the woods to be killed. I think I've paid some dues at this point. Many of my "No Hunting" signs got painted over last year. The hunters are pissed because I put my signs too high up to be easily taken down. I think the surveyors painted my signs with their paint can extensions.

[Ol' Bob]

I have taken to calling bacon a fruit...

Well, really you don't have to kill the pig to get the bacon. It would be a quality of life question for Porky, though.

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Interesting that Gawain has issued no denials.