Animals, anything goes....
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I am trying to keep squirrels out of my potted garden and I have to admit I am in awe of their curiosity and determination. At first, my concern was all the cats that like to use the planters for a litter box, but it is easy to keep cats out compared to squirrels.
Not only is my garden area completely fenced but it is covered too because the squirrels easily climb fences. Still, the squirrels never give up. They study the fence and make different attempts to find a way in. When it comes to tenacity you just got to admire the squirrels.
Not only is my garden area completely fenced but it is covered too because the squirrels easily climb fences. Still, the squirrels never give up. They study the fence and make different attempts to find a way in. When it comes to tenacity you just got to admire the squirrels.
Paco Dennis
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This looks like a deer goes after a hawk that is going after a rabbit. I have never heard of, or seen a deer act this way.
hawkdon
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Wow, that is amazing!!!! Never would have thought this would happen with a deer!!!
RadishRose
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Yes, amazing. That deer was single-minded in killing that hawk, even to rebuff the other deer from interfering. Never heard of such a thing.
Most of us may not, nor ever know, everything that goes on in the secrets of the wild. It could be that the deer was once terrorized by a bird.
Or it could be a throwback to......
Bambi and Thumper!
Most of us may not, nor ever know, everything that goes on in the secrets of the wild. It could be that the deer was once terrorized by a bird.
Or it could be a throwback to......
Bambi and Thumper!
Mizmo
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RadishRose
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SmoothSeas
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pretty kitty...
RadishRose
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Mizmo
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RadishRose
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Lucky you. I see them circling now and then, but never up close.
I know! I was mesmerized watching him. He was acting like the small birds, trying to flap his wings in the water, but gave up on that. He just sat down and kept dipping his head in the water.
Nemo2
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"Are you talking to ME?" Apologies to Taxi Driver...taken somewhere in what was Yugoslavia (IIRC) in the 1980s.
Nemo2
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Nemo2
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Southern Tanzania, early 1988, watched this young lioness as she set up to ambush Wildebeest when they were maybe 300 yards away......unfortunately for her she broke too soon and went away empty pawed:
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Nemo2
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Rhino, Kenya, mid 1980s (unfortunately these pics are mostly from old, subsequently digitized, slides) - we, with our Masai driver, tried unsuccessfully to head of Hyenas stalking a female Rhino with calf........he said that unfortunately the calf would likely be gone overnight.
Nemo2
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Fruit Bats, Sri Lanka 1985........saw similar in the NT, Oz, 1962......3 of us were sleeping out under the proverbial stars.....dawn comes, the other guys said they'd seen a lot of ducks flying over in the pre-dawn dark, perhaps (since I had the .22 rifle), I could go downriver and bag some lunch?
Hiked about half a mile or so upriver......heard a lot of NOISE......ducks? Naah, a zillion bats!
Hiked about half a mile or so upriver......heard a lot of NOISE......ducks? Naah, a zillion bats!
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Paco Dennis
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“Actually this is Indian Saras Crane attacking a Bluebull from behind, the bull happened to venture close to Saras's nest, where in, it had laid a single egg. The Saras Crane, which is tallest flying bird in the world, opened it's huge wings and attacked the bull from behind, driving the bull away from the nest”