Critters captured on camera

[Larro Darro]

My cousin is having some of her pines cut on the next 40 over, so I walked through my longleafs to have a look. The weeds growing in the firebreak around the pines were all blooming. There were piles of this kind of butterfly.




But I this guy was the only one I saw like him. I waited with my camera zoomed to 13X for about ten minutes before he lit long enough for me to get a picture. I got about fifteen blurry ones when he would fly just as I snapped. He didn't care for the blooming weeds like the others. He flitted around the oaks, stopping a couple of times on a May Pop {purple passion} vine.

 

[bullbreaker]

Do you have a caption for this?
If you do please post it.

How about " P---Y W--PPED" ! For a caption and that coon ain't even married yet ! :laughing:

Boone

 

[crash325]

Jim ain't nothing like a free hatband ! :thumbsup:

Boone

Once they are dead, I just put them out for the Mexican Air Force. (Turkey Buzzards).
Don't even save the rattles.

 

[Wanda A]

I think you have your labels reversed on the quail and doves.

 

[crash325]

I think you have your labels reversed on the quail and doves.

Your Wrong. I was there & took the pictures. I know what I saw.

Today while I was not looking the buzzards ate the snake. It made a feast for the sparrows or wrens. Must have been 2 dozen of them cleaning up the small scraps left over.

Quail have been doing strange things, I've not seen before. Must have bee 30 to 50 of them holding a conference this morning. Several families all in one place. Not even a place where they come to feed. ???

 

[oldstyles]

Diamondback from the back yard, and gator in the front yard. Wild Florida can still be found! I used to leave the rattlers alone, but being a daddy changes my thinking..... especially since this one was under the kids' treehouse.

 

[Circle W]

Choot 'em!

 

[crash325]

What kind of rattlesnakes are these? besides dead, of course!

Local name is Coon Tail. They are Mojave rattlesnakes.

Most species of rattlesnakes can control how much venom to inject and have hemotoxic venom, destroying tissue, causing necrosis and coagulopathy (disrupted blood clotting).[30] In the U.S., some varieties of the Mojave rattlesnake (C. scutulatus) also have a presynaptic neurotoxic venom component known as Mojave Type A toxin, which can cause severe paralysis.[30][31][32] C. scutulatus is widely regarded as producing one of the most toxic snake venoms in the Americas, based on LD50 studies in laboratory mice.[33]

 

[Circle W]

I've only seen them on the road that goes to our house never out in the pasture. A few years ago I saw a fella that had skinned a timber rattler that he had killed and used it to face his recurve bow, really cool design. He also had one made with a copperhead. Been chomping at the bit ever since to try and make my own but I don't even have enough time to start hand making a bow let alone finish one out!

 

[two_bit_score]

Well to go with all these snake pics here is a snake bite story. They guy was really lucky:'Why me, Lord?': Port Lavaca businessman in ICU after snake bite - Houston Chronicle

 

[swizzle stick]

I have two food plots with trail cams. Was up this weekend to check things out and had lots of deer, bear and turkey making themselves at home. Small sample attached. View attachment 332823View attachment 332824View attachment 332825View attachment 332826

That Bushnell takes some mighty nice pictures.