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Nature's Dramatic Struggle of Life and Death on the Walk Home from Work |
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And I missed the BEST shots when I went to get my camera !!!
Starving Artists Never Die
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Johnny E4 |
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I hate buzzards
they have a gag reflex for protection and vomit at you when spooked off or attacked nasty critters
Some people??? why who could some people be? Geeze some people!
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Fuse |
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That is one ugly bird.
Gag reflex for protection? Dude, that's really nasty. I'm glad I haven't had a chance encounter with one.
Remember to SMILE!!!
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Blizzard |
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Actually most animals have some sort of instinctual reflex in the face of danger.....most though on the other end of things...
~Blizzard of Az
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Jendini |
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cbgorby wrote: Wow! So what shots did you miss? I want to know all about the moment that the cat got close enough to that thing to see that it was too big to eat, LOL What did the vulture do when it saw the cat? I think the kitty made a wise decision
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cbgorby |
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The vulture decided to take a drink from a puddle , at which point the tom decided to creep up to the opposite side of the water - maybe a foot or so from the
buzzard . Both kinda eyed each other - neither showing much outward concern ( I could here the music from " A Fistful of Dollars " playing in the
background ) with the cat poised ready to pounce should the vulture offer up a moment of weakness . That's when a car drove up and the animals moved away
in opposite directions and I went for the camera . It could have been interesting - the tom was the same size as the bird . We have a fairly large community of
feral cats living on our apartment property .
Starving Artists Never Die
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cbgorby wrote: Or as I like to refer to them around here, with pellet gun in hand: Targets!
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cobroldy |
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They have a use for the other end, too, Blizz. They go dookie on their legs to cool off. We've got a bunch of feral felines here, too, but I don't call
them targets, I call them Racoon deterrants.
Too bad the local skunk doesn't pay them any mind. Now THAT's a target! Stinky bastard keeps creepin' around my back door, can't wait to take out the garbage or go to smoke a cigarette and realize just how little tomato juice I have in my cupboard, lol. Although, now that I think about it, there was the one morning I saw a cat tearing out of a hedgerow with a ground hog hot on her heels. I guess her eyes were too big for her guts, 'cause that hog had her movin'! When I laughed out loud she shot me a look (you know that cat stare down) So, bein' the whacko I am, I said "What? It's not my fault you're scared of an overgrown hamster. Pussy!" So the cat looks at me a sec, then kinda hangs her head in shame and sulks away. This is why I usually only function around noonish...Not only did I talk to the cat, I used a bad pun, and I didn't make sure no one was watching first, lol. Was funny, though. H "When I was 10 I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I was found doing so. Now I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man
I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up"
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HoloSuite |
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That dump (from either portal) to flee reflex is present in other bird species. It lightens the load for quicker flight.
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Blizzard |
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Yeah if you watch almost every time a bird take flight it drops some doodies as it goes...
~Blizzard of Az
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CthJ |
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I had a very unpleasant experience last night. My 1 1/2 yr old husky, knocked over an ironing board last night and scared the most vile smelling stuff out of
himself. Whoaaa that was rank and of course all the way across the bedroom. I mopped with 3 different kinds of stuff, used the pet smell neutralizer and 1/2
a can of febreeze spray, before it was gone. Not a fun evening.
p.s. great pics and sorry to get off topic! Cathy
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cobroldy |
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Uh...Which end, Cathy? I mean, either way, you may want to seek a vet...predators don't usually have the "Oh, SHIT!" reflex...
H "When I was 10 I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I was found doing so. Now I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man
I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up"
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Dr Wild |
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Musk glands in the dogs do have some powerful smell.
On the buzzard topic, the microwave tower at the Air Traffic Control Center in N Florida is the local buzzard roost. I've seen a whole flock roosting there in the morning. And here in S. Jersey, the buzzards roost near the lake beach, so it's very disconcerting to see buzzards perched on the life guard stands in the early morning! Bob |
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The Law of the Jungle! Terribly cute (^-^)!!!
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wolfmammy.fantasynet |
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Dr Wild wrote: They're actually anal glands and they smell about 20x worse than dog poo! I used to be a dog bather and we had to express the anal glands so that they wouldn't get freaked out & let loose after they'd been all purtied up. |
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