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I currently have a Broad Winged Hawk nest about 30ft from the house. I've been trying to grab pictures of them and the baby I think is in the nest but that angle of the tree is making it difficult.

Poke said:
Will a turkey vulture go after my chickens? One showed up this week and is around daily. I’ve only ever seen them swarming the PA highways. Never in the woods.
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No if it is in fact a turkey vulture and not a black vulture, your chickens should be fine. Turkey vultures only eat carrion (dead shit) they are not hunters. Black vultures will go after small birds and mammals.
 
Not in the yard, but this trip I saw my first roadkill gator x2. First one was right before the elevated run of I59 and then another on I10 sitting dead next to a dead deer....I guess curiosity got that one....lol
 
Finally found this. Saw one of these come walking down my shooting lane. After some lip squeaking the mate showed up.

Had to take a pic off the camera. Lost the cord to transfer it to the computer. :homer:

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1- Spreading Adder on the carport

2- Turtle wandered in to the shop

3- Doe about 15ft behind the swing set, a few minutes after kids were playing on it

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Fox having a woodchuck for dinner. Garden is safe now.

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Both of these are within the last 10 hours, the Elk are everyday and don’t give a shit about you, your dogs,ect, I could walk by it without him moving I bet. Bear isn’t as common, especially during the day.


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We have a ton of deer in our neighborhood. I pulled into my driveway last night after work, and one walked right in front of my truck. It had been grazing on my lawn :laughing:
 
Had a porcupine making a racket the other night. I don't know what the hell it was eating, but it sounded like peanut brittle. Hard and crunchy. Shined the MagLite on it around 2am through the window. Big fucker too.
 
In town but near a wildlife area. Normal possums, skunks, squirrels, and coons. Occasionally a coyote or turkey wanders past. Birds, mostly mockingbirds since they chase everything else away. And the occasional snake or red eared slider..
 
Nothing but a bird nesting under my front eave and shitting all over my door, plus a chipmunk that came into my house last week when I had the door open for the breeze.

I saw more wildlife living in a city, by a lot.
 
Not my yard but this thing snuck up on me at my folk's place a couple weekends ago, not sure if it's someone's pet that got loose or game birds gone native but this is the second Reeve's pheasant that's shown up this spring.
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Well, shit...this thread made me feel like a idiot...

Little over 2 years ago we moved into a amazing disaster of a bank owned house on 5 acres. We see animals all the time. Hawks, eagles and owls hunt the yard. I've killed 3 porcupines so far(only 1 trip the vet). Moose, yotes, and sooo many deer. Including a legit 180+ typical whitetail. I was so stunned I didn't even think to count points! Heck, this week the dogs let out a "not a person bark" and I looked and there was a 1000lb steer in the yard, lost af. We live at the edge of town on a mountain, there ain't no ranches here, lol! (I did manage to track down the owner, via a previous email concerning a lost bull. Turns out he lost 5 head. Is it still cattle rustling if they're lost? Asking for a friend...)

Day 1 I set up a spotter in our living room so I could check out all the animals. Never even occurred to me to set up our DSLR camera instead! It's older Canon? Can I pick up enough lens for a decent price on eBay or CL? Average shot would be 100-250yds. Would be great if I could at least ID animals in the valley, say 800-1000yds. My spotter is 20-60x and it does the job.
 
I had a bald eagle circle back and take a look at one of our little yapper dog mutts, wishful thinking, a few weeks ago. The best sighting so far has been a fisher. Raccoons, skunks (I got sprayed), squirrels, songbirds, barred owl, various hawks, grouse, timberdoodles, deer, coyote, bear and wolf. A moose was sighted half a mile down the road.
 
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Met up with a hog nose the other day. Picked a bag up of the ground and he landed on my foot. I didn't realize they hiss like a mother fucker and are strong as a bull. He could push himself up out of a 9" deep sand bucket and he's only about 12" long! Freaked me out the first time :lmao:
There are also tons of deer in our yard day and night. My wife keeps trying to scare them away, but it seems to make them less afraid:laughing:
Tons of birds too.... living on 40 acres has its perks. The mosquitoes on the other hand, they suck and can about carry you away.
 
Atleast 20 elk calves just 300’ from my front door, pretty cool to walk up on this afternoon going to the mailbox;
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Hummingbird nest under my carport. Vids of momma feeding em and the first one to leave the nest




 
We've got the typically east coast critters. Deer, turkey, black bear,a fox den on the property and some flappy headed geese!
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5 bucks from last week. 70 yards out the back door.
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Almost forgot about the Sabertooth Sadie.
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Doe walked past me twice within 20 ft while mowing, then went and layed down next to my garage, picture is from over the top of 10ft stone wall Click image for larger version Name: 20200624_152007.jpg Views: 0 Size: 951.7 KB ID: 54414
 
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