Back yard critters

[Chevy1]

There doesn't seem to be a gardening thread here, which is fine BTW, I'm just fooling around with this stuff on a small scale, and this isn't landscaping.

So to follow up in to the critter thread I've deemed the critter cages a success since the 'maters are ripening nicely and none of them have gone missing. At least the one plant. The other hasn't been quite as productive.

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I was also harvesting and pruning some parsley when this critter suddenly jumped out of them:

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Didn't spot him in the parsley, until he leapt out of the parsley. At least there won't be bugs in the parsley with Mr. Mantis on guard.

We do have a vegetable garden thread

 

[cany]

We do have a vegetable garden thread

Showed him that a while back

 

[Chevy1]

Didn’t get a pic but at about 4:00 a hawk came down and plucked a dove off of my neighbors garage roof. It was raining feathers

 

[Avenger]

They eat more than you would think

Update:

Yes they would make Eric Carle proud.

It appears that we sacrificed a lot of garnish to fatten up the Parsleypillar just to feed a tree rat.

I'll have to check out surveillance video (please no) but I suspect a roving rodent filched our vital pollinator for lunch.

To be fair, that's what the ba$tard gets for eating his cover. But it was soooo close to doing the chrysalis thing,... I'm disappointed.

 

[Avenger]

Not back yard per se, but I passed a doe ambling along the median of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expwy at about 2:30 this afternoon.

It was near exit 9, so I guess it had wandered off the Bethpage Park reservation. Still odd to see a deer on the Expressway.

 

[Avenger]

Forgot to add... It's probably because Climate Change.

 

[cany]

WTF over grown chicken is on my deck railing.........Stupidcat hightailed it into the house lol

 

[CELLFISH]

 

[MakoMatt]

A turkey food shopping at the Pioneer Market, Fair Harbor, F.I.

 

[CELLFISH]

WTF over grown chicken is on my deck railing.........Stupidcat hightailed it into the house lol
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a nice 12 lber in two months… cell…
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[Chevy1]

a nice 12 lber in two months… cell…
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They don’t get that big on Long Island six and 7 lbs

 

[CELLFISH]

They don’t get that big on Long Island six and 7 lbs

feed em, it keeps em nearby… cell…

 

[cany]

They don’t get that big on Long Island six and 7 lbs

Oh they get bigger than that here I have seen some big ones on LI

 

[cany]

On Long Island, adult male wild turkeys, or toms, typically weigh 18 to 25 pounds and stand about 30 inches tall, while females (hens) are smaller, averaging 9 to 12 pounds. These Eastern wild turkeys are native to the area and can be identified by the large size and darker, metallic-sheened plumage of the males, while hens are smaller and have blue-gray heads and rusty-brown bodies.

 

[Chevy1]

On Long Island, adult male wild turkeys, or toms, typically weigh 18 to 25 pounds and stand about 30 inches tall, while females (hens) are smaller, averaging 9 to 12 pounds. These Eastern wild turkeys are native to the area and can be identified by the large size and darker, metallic-sheened plumage of the males, while hens are smaller and have blue-gray heads and rusty-brown bodies.

Never saw one that large , but facts are facts

 

[JackPrintMD]

Never saw one that large , but facts are facts

Golf courses out east are loaded with big ones…..they are a bit scary when they roam towards ya .

 

[wader]

Never saw one that large , but facts are facts

try coming around a blind curve in your vehicle to find a couple of dozen in the middle of the road.

Squash...................

 

[Chevy1]

try coming around a blind curve in your vehicle to find a couple of dozen in the middle of the road.

Squash...................

Been there done that

 

[Roccus7]

Kids grow so fast!! Was wondering where the 2 Hen Turkeys and their broods were lately. Well yesterday, the Moms and their 11 now pretty large chicks were working our driveway, probably munching on worms who congregate there during rainstorms...