Wildrosebeef - Armchair Cattlewoman's BYH Journal

[Mamaboid]

We are always up for pictures.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Still haven't uploaded the pics yet, I'll get em up sometime...

Went for another drive today, on personal business. Then I decided to take a fairly long drive north on the high way that runs north not far from our place. Only turned around when I came to a T in the road.

Nice to get out of the house for a little while. And I think I counted about four or five red-tail hawks on the drive there, they're sure out and about hunting those mice.

Speaking of mice, one of the cats killed another mouse in the quonset...this is #4 so far. Only way I found out was I nearly stepped on it when I went in to get the car. Red, you'd probably have a near fit if you walked in to a garage and seen a dead freshly killed mouse waiting for you at the door!

At least Spider was kind enough to have the want to eat it up, as he was just about to eat it when I let the cats back in again.

 

[redtailgal]

NO, I like them dead, lol. (mice that is)

You'll probably see a lot of hawks for the next few weeks. They are doing their spring migration. Hawks have a really weird migration. You'll have a constant population of Redtails, but you'll have a different "set" in the summer than you have in the winter.

Alot of time the northern birds are darker than our southern birds, esp with the juvenile birds. If you get a chance to get a pic of one, I'd love to see it, esp if you could get the tail in there.

The migration here is yeilding alot of very large birds from last years hatch, meaning there are alot of females. We've already had several of the juv birds end up down with worms. I wish I still rehabbed, I miss my hawks. But I just dont have the time to train a hawk for release anymore and I cant condone not releasing a releasable hawk.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

I was taking pictures this evening and saw a couple hawks flying around. Even better a flock of six geese came landing in the very pond I was trying to get pictures of a pair of ducks from. Those birds are BIG, especially when they came flying in nearly right over my head!! Thankfully I had my camera with me, so I'll definitely have to get some pics up here soon.

While I'm on the topic, Mom says she seen a big snowy owl this morning too. I'd love to see one myself so's I can get a pic of it.

So here's a list of all the birds I/we seen today:

- Gyrfalcon (that hawk I seen with white underneath and grey on top)
- Canada geese
- Mallard ducks
- Snow bunting (thousands of them!)
- Juncos
- Red Polls
- Snowy owl
- Magpies
- Gull
- Nuthatch

It's so neat to get the kind of wildlife we get around here.


But those darn cats didn't even touch that mouse I left for them to clean up this mornin! So I had to put on a pair of gloves and toss the dead mouse out to the bush. Blegh!

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Here's one picture:

More are on the way.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Here's those snow buntings we've been seeing lately:

The pics were dark since it was snowing quite a bit. I was sitting really quiet and those buntings were getting pretty close to the camera, as shown in the last pic.

Mallard ducks:

Flying off since I scared them.

Robin that was hanging around near the pond

Canada geese coming in for a landing

Stretching his wings

Reflections on the water

Only one of the few tiffs I seen between these birds.

What I thought was a Gyrfalcon turned out to be a Northern Harrier. (This is not the greatest pic, I have a few better shots I took today to show, will show maybe tomorrow)

This is just from a couple days ago, I still have to upload pictures from today and last evening. So, more pics on the way!

Oh, and enjoy!

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Some slightly better snow bunting pictures:

Landing on the snow

The flock's so thick they're worse than flies!

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Sorry I didn't get any more pictures up today.

Two types of wildlife came around today: Finally got to see that snowy owl, and a half dozen muley does came around this evening.








Lately I feel like I've been talking to myself on here, hope I haven't scared everybody off for whatever reason, or at least bored everybody to death with not much to report except wildlife and general life...

 

[77Herford]

I read just don't comment much anymore. Nice pictures though, I like to bird watch when I have time.

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Thanks 77.

Here are some more pictures from the other day:

Ducks flying in

Mallard in mid-flight

Swans flying over

Northern pintail ducks in a spring-flood pond

Lesser Yellowlegs (species of sandpiper)

Pintails coming in for a landing

Cloud of snow buntings and ducks

Harrier going after buntings