Nature & Wildlife Thread

[j.w]

Very nice photo's JB and I just saw that there are now 3 baby eagles in the nest. Yay!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

A little video to go along with the pics.

 

[j.w]

What a fun place to walk. I'd walk there all the time if I lived near there.

 

[addy1]

We just have viney woods around here and poison ivy. Lots of brambles, need a machete to cut your way through them.

 

[j.w]

Lots of woods around here get taken over by blackberry bushes all around the perimeter. If you could get past them it would be free sailing under the trees cuz the bushes need sunlight to live.

 

[addy1]

Our woods here have a heavy undergrowth of tangled vines, bushes, debris. Nothing pleasant to walk through. At least near our home. We don't even go into our own woods. Tried a few times cut some paths, they just overgrew again.

 

[addy1]

Yuck............found a deceased deer right near the house, back by the second garage. Need to get out the tractor and haul it back into the woods for the vultures and critters to eat. Poor thing.

 

[j.w]

Yuck,and double yuck!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Yuck............found a deceased deer right near the house, back by the second garage. Need to get out the tractor and haul it back into the woods for the vultures and critters to eat. Poor thing.

Was it the one you've been seeing lately?

 

[addy1]

We need to move it to see if it is missing part of the hind leg Doing it first thing in the am. The grass is real tall there, it might have been bedding down in the area. We had vultures circling, not quite brave enough to come in, yet.........

 

[addy1]

Poor little gimpy, looks like she bedded down near our boat and just died. Most of her hind leg was missing.

She is now in the woods, critter food.

 

[j.w]

Poor thing but she just couldn't make it on that bad leg. She will give some hungry creatures a good Easter dinner.

 

[addy1]

Bugs, vultures, maybe even the fox will have dinner and whatever else out there eats carrion.

It was a yearling, small little girl.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Yep, its a sad thing but the beauty of this world is that even death can be a good thing, as weird as it sounds to say. Something will benefit from that deer. animals, insects, even plants.

 

[addy1]

For sure

We watched the buzzards yesterday, they flew down wind circling most of the day looking for the deer. Very windy day, so they had trouble finding it. They can smell the sulfur smell up to a mile away in the up currents. It was not out in an open field, just on the other side of our old farm fence under some straggly trees. I read they prefer fresher kills then the been laying there rotting for weeks.
It was only after the wind died down, around 4-5p they found the deer. One found it first it was there for a while before the next vulture showed up.
They land on our side of the fence, with the six foot wing span they can't fly into the trees to get to the deer.
Walk over, hop on the fence then down to the deer. They are arriving right now.
They roost in our back woods.