Local Wild Animals and Birds

[daytime dave]

Great shot Gene.
Yes, they are big when you actually get close.

[North Country Gal]

Cool pic. Yes, a lot of animals don't equate cars with humans, so you can sometimes get very close.

[cooperhawk]

Years past when I was doing some landscaping here and I had a pile of black dirt about 400 yards down the driveway through the woods I would use my tractor with the bucket to haul dirt in and then spread it. One day I notice a pair of fawns parked right behind my dirt pile. They'd stand up and look at me but never run away. (I think Ma said stay here), and then about 4 or 5 in the afternoon the doe would come get them.

The next day they were back and for several days after that.

I decided that the doe was using me as a baby sitter. She wasn't afraid of the tractor and sometimes I would have to get off and shoo her out of the way. Then she saw a human and would run. The tractor was just a tractor.

[Sir Henry]

It’s still quite dark and I can barely see the deer in my field. By full daylight they will be hidden in the woods.

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[Sir Henry]

These sandhill cranes have been hanging out at my place for the fourth summer. They are really getting used to me and they don’t run away when I walk by. I did a range report earlier and ran them off before I shot.

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[cooperhawk]

I've heard they are called, "The flying Rib Eyes".

[Sir Henry]

I've heard they are called, "The flying Rib Eyes".

I can attest to that. This was in Alaska two years ago.

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[Sir Henry]

The sandhill cranes are back after not being seen for two days. Someone should tell them not to walk on the range.

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They hang close to the house a lot. .

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All these pictures were taken from inside the house and this isn’t a telephoto shot. It was literally ten feet away.

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[Sir Henry]

A neighbors caught this on his game camera last night. He has a dozen or so cameras on 40 acres and is always catching something.

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