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Author Topic: Birds in the back yard  (Read 379585 times)

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Offline mike89

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very interesting crew he running or flying with!!!  that is cool to see!!!
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Offline Dotch

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That is pretty cool. One of the neighbor's or is it just living on the loose?
Time itself is bought and sold, the spreading fear of growing old contains a thousand foolish games that we play. (Neil Young)

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That is pretty cool. One of the neighbor's or is it just living on the loose?
It's running loose. About 5 miles away I seen a mating pair on the gravel road.... but that was 3 years ago. I heard that they are as bad as Guinea hens (hard to keep penned up)
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and they are very loud!!!   
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I posted the video on the community Fartbook page and they said that there is more than one and they have been on the run for over 6 months
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I posted the video on the community Fartbook page and they said that there is more than one and they have been on the run for over 6 months
:scratch: maybe it Identifies as a turkey??? :rolleyes:

on the other hand.........that thing would make a pretty mount!!!!!!!!!! :sleazy: :happy1:
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Offline Bobberineyes

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That's cool stuff HD, especially on the run. We use to see some just outside of Lake Lillian,  they were free to roam but musta always went back to a coop or something.

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I posted the video on the community Fartbook page and they said that there is more than one and they have been on the run for over 6 months
:scratch: maybe it Identifies as a turkey??? :rolleyes:

Must be brotherhood Union thing.....  :whistling:
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On our overnite car cruise to the casino in Black River Falls last fall, we noticed a bunch of bird crap in front of our cars in the parking lot the next morning. Upon closer inspection, there were some guinea feathers interspersed with it. When we inquired about it at the desk they laughed. There was a roving band of guineas running wild in the area. Everyone locally was trying to catch them but to no avail. Raising guineas growing up, we had a hard time keeping them around. They'd just disappear from time to time & never return. Always figured they probably wound up being lunch for a fox.  :scratch:
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topped off the feeders that needed it. good amount of activity with the redpolls and a few other assorted birds. still have Junco's around  :scratch: though they'd be already southbound by now.

while i was throwing the training dummy for shadow had a sizeable flock of ducks headed south......
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hundreds of swans still around here...   
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 :rotflmao: poor birds are having a  heck of a time hanging on the feeders! :huh:
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This guy came in to check out the bird feeders...

https://youtube.com/shorts/npISQH2EySw?feature=shared
pretty awesome......thats a damn big skurrel!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

when i got back from st cloud i went around the house to the patio door to go in the house because the wind would rip the screen door out of your hands. found a dead cardinal !!!! :confused: :doah: :embarrassed: looked like the same one that was on the feeder earlier!!!!!!
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Offline LPS

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Nice one!  The sunflower shells are blowing out of the feeder nicely. 

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not much for bird activity here at the homestead. an occasional cardinal, some woodpeckers going after the beef suet and my peanut butter/sunflower feeder. mostly redpols here.

at the cabin..... after the 2nd day.....birds finally found it again.......been 6 weeks. woodpeckers and redpols mostly. 1 morning i had 3 black skurrels and 6 grays chasing each other around!!! didnt see the flying skurrels however......... bummer!!!

at deer hunting i brought up 4 dog food bags of the 50 lb variety stuff with maple leaves and dumped them back behind one of our sheds.....went to look when i got up there, the deer had that pile just trashed and gone!!!!
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I’ve got a gang of bluejays hanging around this year. They knock a lot of food off the feeder and push out the smaller birds. I might suspend feeding for a while to see if they move on.

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Saw a Robin yesterday. I dont believe I've ever seen one out here this late in the year. In town yes but not out here.

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I’ve got a gang of bluejays hanging around this year. They knock a lot of food off the feeder and push out the smaller birds. I might suspend feeding for a while to see if they move on.
yea them damn things! :angry2: :angry2: :doah:
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Saw a Robin yesterday. I dont believe I've ever seen one out here this late in the year. In town yes but not out here.

There is a flock of them up here too.   Not sure if they are crazy or if they think spring is coming early.