Frosty Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Yeah, smoke is a bad sign now days. I'm thankful the FD, Forest Service and Air Guard, got a house fire on the hillside above Anchorage out before the forest caught. It was an all hands response with a helicopter making water drops around it. We're sweating fires again this year and the hillside above Anchorage is steep, has limited road access, minimal water and crowded sub divisions. We dodged serious badness Sunday afternoon. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmySoldier72 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 We are thankful for our crops to be growing. the little green sprouts of corn, WOO HOO and the hay is growing real nice. With these two fields we see alot of wildlife at the top of our property. Deer, badgers, coyotes, gophers, a ton of different birds. ARMY SE Oregon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 Fields look nice! One of the dogs was barking none stop a couple days ago so I walked out to see what he had treed but it turned out he didn’t have anything up a tree instead he was barking at this very annoyed turtle that was trying to find its way outta the yard, I helped him out an set him over the back fence so he could head over to the pond, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Found this guy when I opened up the shop this morning, that’s one big moth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 TW, that appears to be a cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia) very pretty and a unique visitor. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ThomasPowers Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 We've got barn swallows on our front porch and bats in the studio gable; both are welcome to any flies or mosquitos they can find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 14, 2022 Author Share Posted July 14, 2022 Tree frog slacking on the slack tub this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 Baby mantis! I’ve been seeing a bunch here lately around the shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Recently I've had a small horned lizard AKA horny toad outside my shop and my wife reported a huge one in her raised bed garden today. Unfortunately my neighbors pet lizard---5 to 6' long, got loose and was in the alfalfa field when they mowed it for hay---definitely a "Thoracic Park" experience for the guy on the tractor! My horny toad: The front section of my neighbor's lizard: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 That happens around here occasionally, not with lizards but coyotes, they hide out in hay fields, most of the time they jump and run away from machinery but every now an then they do get up fast enough and get caught up in hay equipment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 An old friend of mine had a darned big iguana he'd been raising for a couple decades. It was pretty docile and actually liked being petted once she had time to get to know you. Then one say John had her out sunning in the kitchen window when the wife opened the door and it made a bolt out. The last anybody saw she was about 25' up in the birch trees across the road. She probably loved life till fall then it was curtains, short term sub freezing maybe, 20f highs not a chance. When I lived in S. Cal. we'd ride in front of the mower in alfalfa fields and shoot rabbits as they flushed. Very few farmers would let you hunt on foot as missed shots or through and throughs, would travel farther. Shooting down from horse back you have the planet for a back stop. You had to be pretty close to see them running through the alfalfa and shotguns were cheating. I caught ribbings for using a semi auto, AR7 survival rifle. Good times and rabbit that's been eating alfalfa is pretty good good eating themselves. Mmmmmm. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 The humble bumble. They are good pollinators and one of the few flying things with stingers I like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Had one of the normal lizards in my shop today. It skittered away before I could grab my phone and shoot it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 With all due respect, did they ever find the back half of your neighbors pet lizard? We used to use a lot wheat straw bales for mulch and a lot of carcasses turned up in it. Mostly skunks and racoons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Nope; but the vultures picked over the hay while it was drying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Sounds like normal happenings. I will say that photo you posted of what was left has given me ideas for a prehistoric fish sculpture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 That leftover photo Thomas posted made me wonder about a coffee an sandwich shop that used to be right outside of NSU campus in tahlequah called “the iguana cafe” just what was in those sandwiches? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 “pollo de los árboles” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 Lol i thought that was supposed to be squirrels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 I can recommend a few places in Mexico City on your way to the pyramids.... Anything but the mole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Yes you need a dermatologist to check out the moles! It was scary how long it continued moving after is was cut entirely in two and disemboweled. Now it stinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lary Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 I've got about 8 acres of field that I either just mow with a rotary or cut for hay with a sickle mower. For some reason, maybe it's the vibration of the machinery, pocket gophers will come to the surface an run around like mice. Ounce in a while they get hit by the mower or a tire. About a minute latter a raven will come along and grab it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 17 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Yes you need a dermatologist to check out the moles I use a terrier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 On 7/22/2022 at 3:58 PM, ThomasPowers said: It was scary how long it continued moving after is was cut entirely in two and disemboweled. Now it stinks. I wonder what it was thinking about. You should have cooked it or buried it out back by the smell by date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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