Back yard critters

[JoeBfishing]

Your new best friend!!

 

[cany]

Your new best friend!!

Thought it was gonna be dinner lol

 

[Dx life Rx fishing]

R they in season for the county... cellie...

I don't think there is a spring season for turkey on long Island. I believe it is Only for youth age 12 to 16 .

 

[Roccus7]

Today's "Mutual of Midcoast Maine's Wild Kingdom" was a conclave of ospreys over the backyard waterway. Counted 12 circling and squawking away. Guess the Brit Herring are in town. Hopefully when the alewives come and and the osprey do their yearly "Reenactment of the US Dive Bomber's Attack on the Japanese Carrier Fleet at the Battle of Midway" I'll be able to get some footage...

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[CELLFISH]

Today's "Mutual of Midcoast Maine's Wild Kingdom" was a conclave of ospreys over the backyard waterway. Counted 12 circling and squawking away. Guess the Brit Herring are in town. Hopefully when the alewives come and and the osprey do their yearly "Reenactment of the US Dive Bomber's Attack on the Japanese Carrier Fleet at the Battle of Midway" I'll be able to get some footage...

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they look like Turkey Vultures to me... cellie...
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[Roccus7]

they look like Turkey Vultures to me... cellie...
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Nope, there is white in them, none in turkey vultures. They were flapping away, vultures usually soar. When osprey and eagles do glide, their wings are parallel to the ground, vultures make a distinct "V", kind of ironic. Finally listen to the sound track, those are osprey calls, vultures are silent when they fly.

 

[CELLFISH]

Nope, there is white in them, none in turkey vultures. They were flapping away, vultures usually soar. When osprey and eagles do glide, their wings are parallel to the ground, vultures make a distinct "V", kind of ironic. Finally listen to the sound track, those are osprey calls, vultures are silent when they fly.

I know, I know, Just breaking’ em my friend .. I found a large dead soft shell turtle at the lakeside this winter, turned it white side up, 20 minutes later 20 vultures were dining on meat, something to watch... cellfish...
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[Roccus7]

I know, I know, Just breaking’ em my friend .. I found a large dead soft shell turtle at the lakeside this winter, turned it white side up, 20 minutes later 20 vultures were dining on meat, something to watch... cellfish...
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Thought that might be the case, but here's a related "teaching moment". Some folks used to call ospreys "Buzzards" and there were thousands of them across New England prior to DDT. Care to guess why part of the MA Coast is known as "Buzzard's Bay?"

 

[CELLFISH]

Is that like Sheep Meadow in Central Park., nyc, or Flatbush Brooklyn .. cellie...

Thought that might be the case, but here's a related "teaching moment". Some folks used to call ospreys "Buzzards" and there were thousands of them across New England prior to DDT. Care to guess why part of the MA Coast is known as "Buzzard's Bay?"

 

[Roccus7]

Couldn’t grab the camera quickly enough, 2 eagles hassling an osprey trying to steal his breakfast.

 

[Roccus7]

Ugghhhh, had a noisy fox barking away at 04:30 waking me up today. Of course I'd much rather have that wake up call than sirens...

 

[JoeBfishing]

I’ve should have read all the followed thread before I replied on the other one. Me too.

 

[Roccus7]

Noisy out there today, multiple osprey, a very vocal loon, and a bunch of eagles. Here's one sitting on my neighbor's dock...

 

[CELLFISH]

Noisy out there today, multiple osprey, a very vocal loon, and a bunch of eagles. Here's one sitting on my neighbor's dock...

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What kind of trees ya got up there beside pines... cellie...

 

[JoeBfishing]

Very nice pic of a amazing creature.

 

[Roccus7]

What kind of trees ya got up there beside pines... cellie...

Oak, Maple, White Birch & Poplars...

Conifers - White Spruce, all dying from Witches Broom, a small mistletoe which is parasitic like regular mistletoe, White Pine, Juniper, & Hemlock

 

[JoeBfishing]

No sycamores up that way?

 

[CELLFISH]

No sycamores up that way?

Maple is good d for BBQ, soft maple I’m told , Oak too I know... cellie...

 

[Roccus7]

No sycamores up that way?

Not along the coast where I am, no hickory or ash either, but I know there's lots of ash inland. Borers just started to show up in Southern Maine.

Maple is good d for BBQ, soft maple I’m told , Oak too I know... cellie...

Native maple is red maple along the coast, but many planted sugar maples for the syrup.

Didn't realize how behind schedule we are this year, but I just saw my first skunk cabbage shoots. Sheesh it's May, that's about a month late!!!

 

[CELLFISH]

Not along the coast where I am, no hickory or ash either, but I know there's lots of ash inland. Borers just started to show up in Southern Maine.



Native maple is red maple along the coast, but many planted sugar maples for the syrup.

Didn't realize how behind schedule we are this year, but I just saw my first skunk cabbage shoots. Sheesh it's May, that's about a month late!!!

Climate Change... cellie...