What is it like where you are from??

Oh, leannkat - I love your descriptions!! The Ozarks are famous for what you just described!! I hope you will be able to post your photos!

What memories of 'the Hunt' your post brought back...and it was just like you said for me, too - the h-u-n-t, NOT the kill!!
My Dad used to take me 'hunting' with him when I was growing up, but we never killed anything. He just taught me how (lots of target practice!), and never to kill unless it was necessary for food. But the quiet companionship was priceless...and I treasure those memories always! I liked the sounds, the soft crisp crunching of the fallen leaves, the scurrying, rustling of small unseen animal paws...and the earthy, refreshed smells were like heaven!! The feeling of being at one with/in the natural world is incomparable!!

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You're most welcome, lottidah!! I sure hope it works, too - would Love to see your photos!!

 

You will have to uploade them in hosting site first(like photobucket). It won't work if you do it directly, or if it does then the picture will only stay here for a small period of time and then it will disappear.

Amazing photos, Lily

 

Thanks Arielh!! So glad you like them!!

 

farmlilly you get it, so many people don't, they think I'm a cruel murderer. that's not what its about for me. and i don't kill it unless i eat it. and i don't take more than i can eat.
i really enjoy those pictures. I've seen a lot of that around. another thing about being in the woods quiet and cameoed you see things that are hardly ever seen. last year i had just bought a new pair of camo coveralls and was sitting on the ground next to a tree. a coppers hawk flew up and landed on a branch about 15 feet from where i was sitting and started doing this crazy call and dance. a lot of other smaller birds began to fly in a circle around it. it kind of looked like a bird tornado, but the other birds weren't other hawks like you would think. i think they were some small woodpeckers we have that live in that area. I'm not sure though. it was crazy and cool. they never knew i was there. then i twitched my foot and they all flew off. my boyfriend was hunting in a stand about 100 yards from where i was and he said he could hear all the commotion.
I've seen bobcat and fox and chipmunks. usually when the deer walks up they catch me by surprise because I'm watching something else play in the leaves or the trees. lol

 

Wow, leannkat - nice experience with the Hawk!! Sounds like a mating ritual for the Hawk...and the other birds weren't too happy about having a hawk in their back yard....marking him and his position, alerting the 'neighborhood'.
Would love to hear some more experiences.....
Bobcats are so soft and beautiful. I actually got to put my arm around and pat a wild one, but the circumstances were heartbreaking.
I lived for a year in the North Carolina mountains, in a chalet that had been built on a bobcat run, and occasionally would see one peeking in a window - and once opened the door and spoke softly to one. He retreated up the hillside a bit and stopped to listen and watch me from about 20 ft.
Then one day one of the backwoods 'hillbillies' that also lived in the area stopped by. He was a trapper (and a 'murderer' of wildlife for their fur!!) He had just trapped a gorgeous bobcat, and had come by to show him to me. The 'cat' was fully alive and undamaged - except for having been severely stunned by the trapper to get him out of the trap undamaged. He put the bobcat on a tree stump that I used on my porch for a table, and then retreated for safety into the house to watch. I didn't know any better, and my heart ached for such a beautiful, injured , living, breathing creature....so I moved slowly, softly talking to him so as not to frighten him, and was able to stroke him gently, soothingly. He was too stunned to react or take me apart, as he could easily have done. I could feel a soft rumble in his throat and chest, sounding just like a cat purrring, as I slowly, gently put my arm around him and touched my cheek to his amazingly soft fur.
The...@#!!xxxtrapper came back outside, laughing, shaking his head in disbelief...and c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y gathered up the bobcat - telling me 'that wasn't purring...that was the closest he could come to g-r-o-w-l-i-n-g...and I was lucky to still have my arm attached!!' (Not to mention my face!!)
Nevertheless, it's a memory I'll treasure till the day I die.
I offered to buy him so I could turn him loose, but the trapper said he was too brain damaged from getting him out of the trap and he'd just die anyway.

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On a happier note - chipmunks!! So cuuuute!! Might tell you a really neat/funny experience another time with a pair of them I called 'Chip & Dale'(for obvious reasons)!! LOL!

 

farmlily3,
An experience to last one's lifetime.


These photos were taken by me in my native place & nearby villages where my relatives live.

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Spoiler: shikra (Accipiter badius)

shikra
(Accipiter badius)

or
little banded goshawk

We call it Valluru or Rajali








A yellow & black dragonfly



A red Dragonfly
I couldn't get a clear image as it was always hovering about.

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more pictures in the next post

 

12ss12 - lovely photos and I especially enjoyed the dragonfly!

 

Love your photos, 12/12! I've never seen a red dragonfly before...didn't even know they existed. They are beautiful.

EDIT: Yaaaaaay.....Fall is here!!

 

Pink & white water lilies, lotus from the same pond in my native village.
Half the pond was dried up. So we went inside the pond to take closer look.
In another one month rainy season will start and the pond will be full.

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Oh 12ss12 I would just love to have those pink and white water lilies for my Koi pond

 

farmlilly, how did he get the bobcat out, beat it in the head? poor thing. i tried foothold traps before and didn't like them because i caught an armadillo trying to catch the foxes and bobcats eating my mom's chickens. when i turned him loose he hobbled away and i hated that. i believe i could have gotten the cat out without hurting him or me, other than his poor foot. but i prefer live traps now and i do have a stuffed bobcat because that's the only way ill ever get to pet one...it was eating chickens...i trap but my doing so is population control. if some things like, bobcats for instance, weren,t kept in check they would eat all our chickens.. i trap around a chicken coup.
and those are beautiful bobcats.

 

leannkat, I can hardly bring myself to talk about it....but, yes, he was a professional trapper for skins, so he knew how to give the Bobcat a blow to the head. In this way, he preserved the fur/skin from marks or tears. It is soooo barbaric! When I think of the beautiful furs I used to love, and how and where they came from, it makes me sick.What we sometimes do in ignorance.....

Is there any way to fence in or reinforce the fencing for your chickens that would protect them?? When I was little, I remember foxes used to come for our backyard chickens, so I understand the necessity of protecting them....but still, there should be a better way.
Have you looked into electrified fencing; sonic animal repellers? They are supposed to be pretty effective at keeping animals away. So glad you use live traps!! Where are they released?

 

Spoiler: Palmyra palm

'Borasus Flabellifer'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borassus_flabellifer
Every part of the tree is useful.

with weaver bird nests
The nest have not been fully finished.
There is no clay layering inside as yet.

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Those are bird nests hanging??
That has got to be the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Right up there with how wild quakers ( aka monk parrots) make their nests!!
I wish I knew how to post photos so I could show you.
I bet farmlily3 could find one for us

 

Amazing! Here you are, Lea...Enjoy!!

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Thanks Farmlily3!!
I used to own quakers and I would throw sticks in their cage just to watch them build.
They would make these elaborate nests and weave the sticks in and around each other.
Just amazed me to watch them. It was very serious business as the male would check and double check the strength
of each stick and if it moved even a little it was ripped out and reweaved.

 

I thought parrots live only in hollows and not in nest. Beautiful. Never seen a parrot nest.

The male weaver bird builds several nest. The female weaver bird inspects them and chooses one out of it. Then the male weaver bird finishes it and gives a clay coating inside. There are several chambers inside that nest. Female weaver bird lays eggs inside it. They say sometimes it even captures & puts a glowworm inside the nest for light. I do not know whether it is true or not.

Take all of them, shellhappybj.
My aunt plucked several of them with their underwater bulbs for putting it in their village ponds. She also took their seeds. Lotus seeds can stay virulent for more than 1000 years.

 

12ss12 that is so funny that she makes the male build several houses and then she picks!
I wonder if I could get my husband to do that? lol
Nope, build another one hunny, nope not that one either, try again hunny lolol

The quakers build condos. Their nests are huge as you can see and many many pairs all live together in different holes in the condo~

 

Wow - LOL-Lea!!..and 12/12 - what interesting posts!! Birds that go shopping from a choice of houses, and Glowworms for light!!! Nature is always surprising and amazing!!
The Quaker parrot is actually a parakeet...much smaller than a parrot, with different nesting/grouping habits.
Thank you both for the education on these beautiful, interesting birds!!

 

Quakers are also shot at by farmers who consider them a nuisance.
They are also illegal to take into some states because they destroy crops.
Mine was named casper and he would sing "casper the friendly ghost..."
I had him for 15 years and the unthinkable happened

They can talk real well too~