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Bill_in_MI
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Second of the Michigan Whitetail. This little guy was the only one that didn't spook while I fumbled with my camera.
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<font color=blue>Doesn't the Peacock make a noise that scare the heck out of someone??</font color=blue>
And they do it after dark, too, Thomas. When I was a patrol lieutenant in the early 70s, there was a stable not far from the station and they had some peacocks, and every time someone new moved into the area, we'd get calls that a woman was screaming for help./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
When we first moved to where we are now, the couple behind us had a pair. Something (probably a coyote) killed the hen one night; we just found a bunch of feathers. The cock never bothered anyone except the man who owned him, and everytime that guy went outside he'd have to fight off that peacock. Then one day we were going to bale hay and he fought off the peacock while he got the rake hooked up to his old Farmall, and I hooked up the baler to the Oliver, laughing at him and the peacock. Then we got on the tractors and took off with him in the lead and that peacock running along right beside his right rear wheel and me following; too close and too fast because the peacock suddenly stopped then darted left right in front me and committed suicide./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
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And they do it after dark, too, Thomas. When I was a patrol lieutenant in the early 70s, there was a stable not far from the station and they had some peacocks, and every time someone new moved into the area, we'd get calls that a woman was screaming for help./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
When we first moved to where we are now, the couple behind us had a pair. Something (probably a coyote) killed the hen one night; we just found a bunch of feathers. The cock never bothered anyone except the man who owned him, and everytime that guy went outside he'd have to fight off that peacock. Then one day we were going to bale hay and he fought off the peacock while he got the rake hooked up to his old Farmall, and I hooked up the baler to the Oliver, laughing at him and the peacock. Then we got on the tractors and took off with him in the lead and that peacock running along right beside his right rear wheel and me following; too close and too fast because the peacock suddenly stopped then darted left right in front me and committed suicide./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
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Bill,
Looks like you may have a little buddy hanging around you this year,and maybe you better put up a higher fence around the garden. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
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Looks like you may have a little buddy hanging around you this year,and maybe you better put up a higher fence around the garden. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
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I guess one could say the Peacock stood his ground to the bitter end..yikes.
I also heard there a good alarm system during the night.
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I guess one could say the Peacock stood his ground to the bitter end..yikes.
I also heard there a good alarm system during the night.
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Yeah, we are one with nature out here. I've had a couple of these little guys still in spots come right up to the window where the computer desk is and stand there looking at me. We have a heck of time keeping our landscape plants from being nibbled to the ground every year. Gave up on a garden long ago (the fence in the picture is to keep me "legal" around the swimming pool) I tried everything to keep the deer out of the garden...and the raccoons, and the birds...and so on. They won. It's all part of the deal with rural living. Wouldn't trade it for the richest garden in the city.
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Grant,
I don't claim to be an expert, but from the research I have done you can get away with a lesser "mega-pixels" camera if you are interested only in output for a computer video screen...or printed (color ink jet, etc) pictures that are of smaller size. The cameras in the 2 mega-pixel range would work fine, and they are now available in the $200 range if you shop around. 3 mega-pixels and above are necessary for good print resolution in larger size images...5x7 or 8x10. They are overkill for e-mail and video monitor viewing. That said, I am using a 3.3 mega-pixel model (at lower resolution settings) because I wanted the other creative camera features that come with these models. And THAT said, I am finding the auto settings work just fine for about everything I have been doing so far.
I don't claim to be an expert, but from the research I have done you can get away with a lesser "mega-pixels" camera if you are interested only in output for a computer video screen...or printed (color ink jet, etc) pictures that are of smaller size. The cameras in the 2 mega-pixel range would work fine, and they are now available in the $200 range if you shop around. 3 mega-pixels and above are necessary for good print resolution in larger size images...5x7 or 8x10. They are overkill for e-mail and video monitor viewing. That said, I am using a 3.3 mega-pixel model (at lower resolution settings) because I wanted the other creative camera features that come with these models. And THAT said, I am finding the auto settings work just fine for about everything I have been doing so far.
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Bird,
<font color=blue>screaming for "help".</font color=blue>
That exactly what they sound like. HELP
My neighbor has two and they make a pretty good watch dog, not as good as a guinea hen, but not bad.
<font color=blue>screaming for "help".</font color=blue>
That exactly what they sound like. HELP
My neighbor has two and they make a pretty good watch dog, not as good as a guinea hen, but not bad.
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Al, my grandparents had guineas and Dad always talked about wanting some when I was a kid, but we just had lots of chickens. And I always heard they were great watch dogs, but the neighbors who had the peacocks also had half a dozen guineas and over a 6 month period something killed every one of them, one at a time, just leaving a pile of feathers, and no one ever heard anything.
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Pete -
Yeah, I can see the ears in moose photo. I hope you get another chance for a better shot. I'd really like to see that thing.
Wild turkeys are great eating, huh? Since you and Thomas seem to agree, I might just have to try it out for myself. I suppose you need some kind of license/permit to knock off a wild bird?
Bill (GlueGuy), Thomas -
You're right about the noise the peacocks make. This guy has an amazing repertoire of sounds that he can produce, each one unlike anything I have ever heard before. Would make good effects for a space alien movie. LOUD, too. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
I've been told they are sometimes used as "watch birds" 'cuz they will honk/bellow/caterwaul at anything approaching which is not familiar to them. During the summer, this one spent much of his day on our roof, belching out his "song" whenever any vehicle or pedestrian happened by that wasn't part of the neighborhood. Looking at the size of the brain box on the critter, I'm surprised it can differentiate between the local residents and "outsiders". /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
Bill in MI -
I like those deer pictures just fine. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I'm not a hunter, but I enjoy stalking the wildlife with my camera. Have you noticed that you always get the closest and see the most when you don't have your camera handy? /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Bird -
I'm sure the episode with the neighbor's peacock was a bit upsetting. You had your given name before the incident, right? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
And now that Pete has warped my way of thinking about these things, I don't suppose you found out if peacocks are good eating, did you? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
Yeah, I can see the ears in moose photo. I hope you get another chance for a better shot. I'd really like to see that thing.
Wild turkeys are great eating, huh? Since you and Thomas seem to agree, I might just have to try it out for myself. I suppose you need some kind of license/permit to knock off a wild bird?
Bill (GlueGuy), Thomas -
You're right about the noise the peacocks make. This guy has an amazing repertoire of sounds that he can produce, each one unlike anything I have ever heard before. Would make good effects for a space alien movie. LOUD, too. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
I've been told they are sometimes used as "watch birds" 'cuz they will honk/bellow/caterwaul at anything approaching which is not familiar to them. During the summer, this one spent much of his day on our roof, belching out his "song" whenever any vehicle or pedestrian happened by that wasn't part of the neighborhood. Looking at the size of the brain box on the critter, I'm surprised it can differentiate between the local residents and "outsiders". /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
Bill in MI -
I like those deer pictures just fine. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I'm not a hunter, but I enjoy stalking the wildlife with my camera. Have you noticed that you always get the closest and see the most when you don't have your camera handy? /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Bird -
I'm sure the episode with the neighbor's peacock was a bit upsetting. You had your given name before the incident, right? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
And now that Pete has warped my way of thinking about these things, I don't suppose you found out if peacocks are good eating, did you? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
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Yeah, Harv, I really hated it when I ran over that peacock, but the owners didn't seem to care at all./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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Harv, you sure do need a license for wild turkeys, though on occasion my pack of goldens surprises them and twice they've actually caught one! (I think the turkey is so intent on one dog that he never notices the others coming around behind him.)
I don't hunt. Now and then when the deer simply won't stay out of my garden despite the battery of repellents deployed in and around it, I'll bring out the trusty Marlin and drop one. (Preferably not ON the vegetables!) Of course I can't let the meat go to waste, though I prefer veggies to venison. I've never understood why Vermont spends so much money controlling deer hunters instead of the deer. They are, IMO, just destructive pests with good PR. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
I've never taken the other animals that live in our forest; I prefer looking at them. But if one of my dogs shows up with a fresh duck or turkey, well, into the freezer it goes.
As for guineas, some people say their warning call sounds like "Buckwheat!" I've listened for hours and feel it sounds more like they're yelling "F***ing A!"
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I don't hunt. Now and then when the deer simply won't stay out of my garden despite the battery of repellents deployed in and around it, I'll bring out the trusty Marlin and drop one. (Preferably not ON the vegetables!) Of course I can't let the meat go to waste, though I prefer veggies to venison. I've never understood why Vermont spends so much money controlling deer hunters instead of the deer. They are, IMO, just destructive pests with good PR. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
I've never taken the other animals that live in our forest; I prefer looking at them. But if one of my dogs shows up with a fresh duck or turkey, well, into the freezer it goes.
As for guineas, some people say their warning call sounds like "Buckwheat!" I've listened for hours and feel it sounds more like they're yelling "F***ing A!"
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Harv
I was outside. They are pretty tame. I have many more of the rest of the families.
I'll send them when I find out where I put them - Lets see - My harddisks, my wifes harddisk, the kids harddisk,a CD, a floppy or one of these zip disk that are multpling faster than an AOL cd.
Harv I'll bet the charm of a dear in the burbs' wears off right after the roses disappear.
I was outside. They are pretty tame. I have many more of the rest of the families.
I'll send them when I find out where I put them - Lets see - My harddisks, my wifes harddisk, the kids harddisk,a CD, a floppy or one of these zip disk that are multpling faster than an AOL cd.
Harv I'll bet the charm of a dear in the burbs' wears off right after the roses disappear.
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Bird:
So THAT's what is making that sound I keep hearing in the evenings! Kind of a shrill "Help!" repeated at 5 - 10 second intervals.
Been hearing that occasionally for the two+ years we've lived here in the country. I've seen them during the day a couple of times down the road but never right around my property.
We've never seen what makes the noise but it sounds like it's coming from a couple of hundred yards away in the field next door - or maybe in the trees on the other side. We can follow the noise as it moves.
Sends chills down the spine.
Thomas:
I'm with you. Any picture from me that you might see of a skink, or a snake or any creepy-crawley will likely take three or four frames because that's how many pieces it will be in.....
So THAT's what is making that sound I keep hearing in the evenings! Kind of a shrill "Help!" repeated at 5 - 10 second intervals.
Been hearing that occasionally for the two+ years we've lived here in the country. I've seen them during the day a couple of times down the road but never right around my property.
We've never seen what makes the noise but it sounds like it's coming from a couple of hundred yards away in the field next door - or maybe in the trees on the other side. We can follow the noise as it moves.
Sends chills down the spine.
Thomas:
I'm with you. Any picture from me that you might see of a skink, or a snake or any creepy-crawley will likely take three or four frames because that's how many pieces it will be in.....
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Yeah, WVBill, those peacocks are plumb spooky until you get used to them./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I also used to work with a fellow who bought a little place out in the country and someone in town offered to give him a peacock. Now he said he figured he could just put it in the back seat of his nearly new car and take it home, so he did. He said as soon as he got rolling, that peacock started running laps around the inside of his car, spewing a continous stream of exhaust out his hind end. He said he got the peacock home all right, but his wife wanted to kill him and the peacock for what it had done to the inside of his car./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif He said he'd never have another one./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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I also used to work with a fellow who bought a little place out in the country and someone in town offered to give him a peacock. Now he said he figured he could just put it in the back seat of his nearly new car and take it home, so he did. He said as soon as he got rolling, that peacock started running laps around the inside of his car, spewing a continous stream of exhaust out his hind end. He said he got the peacock home all right, but his wife wanted to kill him and the peacock for what it had done to the inside of his car./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif He said he'd never have another one./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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RAllen,
Nice photo shot!
Pictures like that are on post cards around here.
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Nice photo shot!
Pictures like that are on post cards around here.
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Excellent, RAllen! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
I look at that picture and I start hearing the theme music to Northern Exposure. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
That's definitely the kind of picture I was hoping to see in this thread. Now I can't wait to see the next one. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
I look at that picture and I start hearing the theme music to Northern Exposure. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
That's definitely the kind of picture I was hoping to see in this thread. Now I can't wait to see the next one. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
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I did see a fox and a grouse this week, but the snow is 3 feet deep, so not much is moving.
This pic was taken last May of a small black bear about 50 feet from the house. It had been raiding my bird feeders in the middle of the night and was keeping an eye on the horses. The horses were really spooked and running around with nostrils flared. I guess it decided they were too big to tackle and left shortly after.
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This pic was taken last May of a small black bear about 50 feet from the house. It had been raiding my bird feeders in the middle of the night and was keeping an eye on the horses. The horses were really spooked and running around with nostrils flared. I guess it decided they were too big to tackle and left shortly after.
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uppermich,
If that bear visit you last year more than couple of times,he or she will remember the where abouts of your bird feeder and return this year...creature of habit.
In the bear family a black bear consider more dangerous do to the different moods,also in the spring time if your out and about in the woods carry some pepper spray just in case.
Great picture you took..send more of your wildlife.
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If that bear visit you last year more than couple of times,he or she will remember the where abouts of your bird feeder and return this year...creature of habit.
In the bear family a black bear consider more dangerous do to the different moods,also in the spring time if your out and about in the woods carry some pepper spray just in case.
Great picture you took..send more of your wildlife.
Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
