| To: Neeka who wrote (21481) | 6/11/2024 12:22:00 PM | | From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) | | | | I found a baby Pigeon when I was in Junior Highschool. No feathers, took it home, asked a neighbour that had carrier pigeons on how to feed it. Used milk and bread (they drink like a horse, not like other birds), then as he was older seeds that the neighbour gave me.
Had him for around 4 years and then he was gone one day. I called him Squirmy as he didn't like to be held.
He liked to land on your head. Crazy thing. |
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| To: Neeka who wrote (21483) | 6/11/2024 1:02:02 PM | | From: Ken Adams | | | | | We see a bob cat a few times a year, more often a stray coyote. A more frequent visitor, or visitors, is a squad of javelinas. They seem to know when our trash pickup is as they come in, tip over anything that must have the smell of food, and then proceed to leave the biggest mess of trash all across the street. Followed in the morning by an unhappy homeowner who shouldn't have put the trash out the night before. |
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| To: Ken Adams who wrote (21485) | 6/11/2024 2:37:40 PM | | From: Neeka | | | | Sounds like our bears. Due to the temperate climate, they only hibernate for a few months every winter. We have to keep our can in the garage, which happens to have a metal door. They get in through wood doors and have little to no problem breaking them down.
A more frequent visitor, or visitors, is a squad of javelinas. They seem to know when our trash pickup is as they come in, tip over anything that must have the smell of food, |
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| To: Neeka who wrote (21483) | 6/12/2024 3:22:39 AM | | From: Zen Dollar Round | | | | My parents used to live in a wooded area with a large greenbelt behind their house. Bobcats would sometimes walk through the driveway and yard, and one day I saw one carrying a still twitching squirrel in its mouth. :-(
Squirrels there would make a very distinctive noise up in the trees when a bobcat was in the area, to warn the other squirrels. |
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| To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (21487) | 6/13/2024 7:07:41 PM | | From: Neeka | | | | | That reminds me of when we were in the last stages of packing up the house that we'd built and lived in for 39 years to move up into the mountains. Our dog must have sensed we were going to leave because all of a sudden there were 4 dirty, flat and long dead squirrel carcasses littering our yard. We soon found the holes where she had evidently buried them after she killed them...lord knows when...and for what ever reason she decided she was going to dig them all up at once. Thankfully, she was never confronted by a bobcat or any other animal when we lived there. But she did experience a bear encounter at our new place shortly after we moved in. She's been long gone, but I'm sure she would have made it if she'd been lost and needed to feed herself. She could also disable a mouse in seconds. I saw her do so several times. |
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