What have you seen lately?

FPrice said:
This guy's family have been living in our neighborhood for years.

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Bring that to Kinfolk BBQ in Taunton and he'll fry it up. LOL. (Yes they do serve rabbit about 1x a month and it's pretty good. It's like dark meat chicken but the bones are in teh wrong spots.)


FPrice said:
Was driving home from church when the car in front of me slowed down, then stopped completely. Was bout to honk when these guys beat me to it. We have at least two families living in our town.

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F them birds. Full time mASS residents. They can go F themselves. They crap all over everything.

Lone Wolf McQuade said:
This morning. Black Squirrel in Sandwich, MA.
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Allegedly, they are becoming more and more prevalent. Steve Rinella says that the % he sees is massive compared to the expert 1-in-10K #. Like 10%. Which is crazy.



At work today, we had a Cooper's hawk circling with every bird in the vicinity of the office airborne. I'm hoping it was looking for feathered food. I'm further hoping it found the seagull nest on teh next building and ate some eggs. The stupid building owner doesn't care. So they fly in and out for 10-12 weeks, crapping all over everything. Started 2 weeks ago. Ugh. Once they lay, you can't mess with them as they are protected. F'ing seagulls. A nice predatory bird helps immensely. They can set up shop somewhere else next year.

It was funny to see every seagull in about 5 square blocks and clouds of pigeons all racing around panicking.
 
Patriot said:
What are you using for cameras? You seem to have a serious bear problem, stating the obvious.
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CONNECTICUT has a serious bear problem, cuz they adamantly refuse to open a bear season. Consequently overpopulation, and they're getting increasingly aggressive.

The cameras are garden-variety Ring.
 
SpaceCritter said:
CONNECTICUT has a serious bear problem, cuz they adamantly refuse to open a bear season. Consequently overpopulation, and they're getting increasingly aggressive.

The cameras are garden-variety Ring.
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Yeah. That no-bear thing is whack. Isn't NJ the same way???? "Oh poor Boo-Boo." LOL

SpaceCritter said:
This morning's ride companion:



Actually, the Larkin was a critterfest this morning: those guys, red efts, turkeys, deer, ... (And two legged critters jogging or riding bikes.) No horses, but plenty of poop.

Edit: moar critterz:


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We saw a couple of snapping turtles swimming around while fishing on Sat. Hard to get pix ever. Not the biggest I've seen, but pretty big.
 
Saturday I saw a baby moose for the first time. I was on a dirt road in Jefferson NH, going slow. Momma Moose had already crossed the road and waiting for the spindly-legged baby to catch up.

My phone was in drive mode and I couldn't unlock it fast enough for a picture. Mostly because all I could do was point and say, "Baby moose! Baby moose! Baby moose!"
 
When we moved up here, I started a bounty system with my kids to keep them looking out the window and enjoying the scenery instead of staring at a phone while we're driving. I pay $5 per animal seen (real animals: cows, dogs and turkey don't count), and someone has to verify that the animal exists, they have to put someone else's eyes on the animal to get the cash. The past couple weeks has been hell on my wallet, though. We've got baseball season, with my son on two teams - and every away game is at least a half hour away, and my daughter is over an hours drive to go to driver's ed classes, which means 2 trips down and back per week in the morning for road lessons, and 2 - 3 trips down and back at night for classes. So far, I've had to shell out for:

4 fox
3 moose
2 deer
1 bear
1 coyote
1 otter
1 bobcat
1 porcupine


My daughter, who is in driver's ed, is getting pretty good at spotting animals now, especially when she's behind the wheel. She was driving when she saw the bear, which was headed into the road and her avoiding it scared the crap out of my wife. She now realizes that not only have they been enjoying getting money for wildlife spotting, but now she's in the habit of actively looking for animals - which I hope will keep her from hitting one.
 
Rat187 said:
Anyone ID this skull? Saw Turkey vultures about five days ago in my backfield. Yesterday I doing some brush work amd I spotted this sorry fella behind the barn. First, I thought, baby coyote but now I'm thinking marsupial.
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Looks like what's left of a possum to me.



Try licking the inside of the eye socket and see if it tastes like possum eye socket.
 
What's up with the deers this week? I had one cross a road at 7:30a on Sat. Then cross again (same road - maybe same deer) at around 10am.

Yesterday, near my house - another crossing - 7:45. Today, Broad Cove in Digh-town - 8:00.

Seems awful late for deer moving around. Especially that 10am one. It's not mating season. WTF?
 
Turtles!

I've never seen so many turtles as I have this past week. I've seen 5 already trying to cross the road. Most are little guys, but this morning I had to swerve to avoid a big snapper in the road.
 

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