smokedragon
Minister of Fire
Glad I'm not the only one.....I tease my slightly older wife that they are here for her.
Glad I'm not the only one.....I tease my slightly older wife that they are here for her.
once when i was camping with my wife i went for a drive to go and collect some firewood. We were out in the middle of nowhere with no other campers or cars to be seen. Anyway I drove up into the hills to until i found a suitable tree to chop up and fired up the chainsaw. When i was done I turned it off turned around and there was a dog sitting right behind me. Scared the crap out of me....the thing just walked off and i never saw it again. i assumed it was just a hunting dog that had been let go as it didnt look like a wild or feral dog...creep either way
Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds....A couple of years ago the Bulletin (I think it was the Bulletin, maybe it was the Day) did an article on 2 large flocks in our area. One is estimated to be 40,000 strong. Some early mornings pulling into Backus you will see several thousand in the surrounding trees.
So I cut out of work early today and went out to my front lot as we sold it and wanted to get as many of the dead oaks off it before we close on it. As I was walking and looking I saw a nice big sassafras tree that had lost it's top. As I started to cut it there was a very load screech so I stopped to look and see if it was one of our neighbors children playing near by in the woods but nothing there.
So I go back to cutting it down and again a load screech again I stop and look around and nothing. Back to cutting the tree and this time I get it dropped but as it hits the ground out of a hole near the top pops a Eastern Screech Owl. It flys over to a nearby tree and sits there watching me. Now I feel bad that I cut it down and look to see if there is a nest in it but nothing just a hole he must be spending his days in. It sat there for about 10 minutes then flew off to a nearby tree with a hole in it and went in that tree.
A couple years ago I was bucking up some wood with all my safety gear on and I thought I could hear something between cuts,but did not see anything around. It wasn't until I took a brake and took off my headgear off and noticed a pileated woodpecker about 15 ft. from me. It was like he was competing against my ms441. His pile of chips was pretty impressive. I could not the saw(or me) did not phase him.So I cut out of work early today and went out to my front lot as we sold it and wanted to get as many of the dead oaks off it before we close on it. As I was walking and looking I saw a nice big sassafras tree that had lost it's top. As I started to cut it there was a very load screech so I stopped to look and see if it was one of our neighbors children playing near by in the woods but nothing there.
So I go back to cutting it down and again a load screech again I stop and look around and nothing. Back to cutting the tree and this time I get it dropped but as it hits the ground out of a hole near the top pops a Eastern Screech Owl. It flys over to a nearby tree and sits there watching me. Now I feel bad that I cut it down and look to see if there is a nest in it but nothing just a hole he must be spending his days in. It sat there for about 10 minutes then flew off to a nearby tree with a hole in it and went in that tree.
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