MADDOG
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I put out a hummingbird feeder since they have few flowers this year in the drought.
I have some of them here already feeding. I was watching them yesterday,one flew off and was attacked by a female cardinal,she chased the humming bird down both dissapeared under a black berry bush. The cardinal didnt leave so i opened the door and went out there, then she flew away.I think she was eating the hummingbird.
I do not feed the other birds they crap on everything.
When i feed the woodpeckers they tear up my wood siding,and trim.
The cardinals hang out in the trees near the humming bird feeder to eat them.
Birds were pecking the tops of my tomatoes while mice were eating the bottoms this summer.
My sisters dog stold a tomatoe from a sack of them today and was eating it like his life depended on it. We got it away from him then he laped up the juice,after growling at us like we were removing a steak.
Wildlife and weiner dogs are stressed this year.
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MADDOG
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Also i have found that praying mantis that used to be 7 inches long now are only 2 inches long.They have shrunk ,probably because the big ones got hit with more yard chems do to their size and now only the smaller ones survived.
WE are killing our planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Don't forget cats mating with rabbits - I saw two catrabbits in an Indiana cormfield...well, better to call them that than rats...
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just don
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here the rabbits cross with antelope,,,,,they call them jackalope.
(you can goggle that I think)
For you that never saw a jack rabbit they are not your average yard bunny
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kam
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We had 3 or 4 bear attacks here in campgrounds.
1st time that has happened.
But, once the monsoons came the bears went away.
I hope.
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lpkayak
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they say bear attacks and intrusions will go up soon as their metabolisms are telling them to eat alot b4 hibernation...and fires and droughts have taken so much of food supply
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Ann-OH
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I doubt that a cardinal could catch a hummingbird, let alone eat it. Hummingbirds are fast and cardinals couldn't get their beak open wide enough to kill one. Cardinals are finches and have beaks made for eating seeds.
Rabbits will try to mate with any other animal, but they can reproduce only with other rabbits. No such thing as catrabbit. Cats will chase and kill any small critter, including baby rabbits.
Jackalopes are a big and very old western joke. They don't exist, but you will find lots of heads- rabbits with horns or antelopes with rabbit ears - put together by taxidermists and hung up in hundreds of local bars.
Moose and bears wander a lot, especially in mating season. Moose are clumsy and easily confused and very dangerous.
Whales have been found stranded for years and years, usually attributed to disease.
Sharks will try to sample anything they bump into, including people. They don't know people from any other animal. They have poor vision.
A black bear, rarely seen here, was spotted and chased away by firemen not far from me. He was about 6 feet tall. Young males wander hundreds of miles and then go back home around here. They will be looking for more food now.
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Hi <<<<< MADDOG/Lyme-Family >>>>>,
There's been problems w/ mountain lions here, a few days before the Charlotte area fire, two of the cubs were spotted just a couple miles from here.
Because of the fires, deer have moved around into different area,and that means larger predators close in to town.
It is a weird year for certain.
Had to laugh about the Jack-a-lopes, the sporting goods where we lived years ago in Louisiana had one from the taxidermist...it got a lot of laughs .
We do get confused Moose and Elk in town sometimes here too.
Jus' Silverwolfi
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Ann, the creature I saw by an Indiana cornfield had a cat head, cat front legs and cat fur to just behind the front legs.
Then its fur changed to much softer, and its legs were rabbit legs - it hopped in the back.
Its tail was about 6 inches long. Its mew was a very short one.
I think it was an example of creative genes at work!
And the guy there at the cornstand told us there was another one that got away.
You know, I think I might even have pics of it, but I'd have to find them in my stored stuff, being that I was 11 at the time!
Hm, Just Don - jackalopes with goggles on...to stay out of the glare of any publicity?
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just don
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My jack a lopes arent real....Tell me, cant be so.
Googls or no googles I still believe in um.
I heard Santa got run over by one,,,,or was that grandma?????
Well I spose I was wrong once,,,an again an a gain
Oh well,,,who would wanna be perfect???????
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lpkayak
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the bears getting into cars and houses scares me
the locals say different things...one says to bang tin pot covers to gether to scare them...one says get higher up than the bear and face him and yell...one says lie down and play dead...and all say never turn your back to them and run...
i really hope i dont have to deal with this. my house is ground level with many windows just on the edge of town and woods with many critters
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