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Post by bushmanbilly on Aug 7, 2017 15:32:18 GMT -5
Dam Hummingbirds are getting big.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 7, 2017 15:39:41 GMT -5
They do come to the feeders well. Hard on a friends emergency wood rack too when they know there's a juicy rodent hiding in there.
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Post by MrMike on Aug 8, 2017 5:45:21 GMT -5
Dam Hummingbirds are getting big. Amazing, their wings beat so fast you can't even see them......
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Post by jamesp on Aug 8, 2017 7:55:27 GMT -5
Love you western folks. Bears would so cramp my style(assuming they are aggressive).
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Post by bushmanbilly on Aug 8, 2017 12:07:39 GMT -5
Love you western folks. Bears would so cramp my style(assuming they are aggressive). Good food supply if she had triplets.
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Post by smittys on Aug 8, 2017 12:09:52 GMT -5
LOL
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 8, 2017 12:19:51 GMT -5
Love you western folks. Bears would so cramp my style(assuming they are aggressive). Think of black bear as giant raccoons. Smell bad and really got to get close and aggravate one to have them look mean at you. Of course with cubs all bets are off the table. Are very powerful animals. Helping the father in law on his guide and outfitting service, a bear was shot on a steep hill with wrist thick trees . The bear on his way down the hill after absorbing the round bit off a bunch of those wrist thick trees. Had a friend come home from work. Every thing from her fridge was sitting on the table. Opening the door she found a quartered bear that her teen son had put there to cool down. grin. Surprise is the worst about bear, even in a fridge. These are black bear. Browns are a whole different critter and will gladly leave them to Billy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 12:37:15 GMT -5
Love you western folks. Bears would so cramp my style(assuming they are aggressive). They are not, mostly.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 8, 2017 13:00:00 GMT -5
Love you western folks. Bears would so cramp my style(assuming they are aggressive). They are not, mostly. Not here either Scott. Usually run, Black bears. No experience w/Brown and Grizzly. Just heard both can be aggressive.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 13:03:54 GMT -5
Not here either Scott. Usually run, Black bears. No experience w/Brown and Grizzly. Just heard both can be aggressive. Nothing but black bears here. Most dangerous animal in SoCal is either mountain lions (if you run away) and rattlesnakes. But bees prolly kill more.
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 8, 2017 16:40:23 GMT -5
Not here either Scott. Usually run, Black bears. No experience w/Brown and Grizzly. Just heard both can be aggressive. Nothing but black bears here. Most dangerous animal in SoCal is either mountain lions (if you run away) and rattlesnakes. But bees prolly kill more. Humans are the most dangerous animal on the planet killing more people than all other animals combined.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 16:44:39 GMT -5
Nothing but black bears here. Most dangerous animal in SoCal is either mountain lions (if you run away) and rattlesnakes. But bees prolly kill more. Humans are the most dangerous animal on the planet killing more people than all other animals combined. Exactly! Well done! That is nature. Alpha males remove breeding competition from the population of many many species including all of the great apes. Makes more females available to mate with. It's why late teen males fight with their fathers and get booted at an alarming rate too. Pure animal nature. The Muslims are just more clever at it. Promising 72 virgins to the young men and send them off to suicide. Ha!
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Post by jamesp on Aug 8, 2017 17:31:15 GMT -5
Never seen a person eating out of a hummingbird feeder. Might approach that one armed.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Aug 8, 2017 17:32:40 GMT -5
Never trust a black bear. Yes most of them run. That's because you have seen them and in their eyes. You are no longer a easy meal. Bears are opportunistic hunters. If they see a easy meal, they will take it. Has anyone ever been stalked by a black bear? I have, they hide very good. Had one stalk me for 3 days last summer on my claim. I could hear it, but never seen it. The only reason I know it was a bear. Is because it screwed up and left a track on mine in the mud. I took one load to a new spot on the creek, and on my return trip I seen the track. I bet that bear was within 50 feet of me as I looked at the track. A round trip was about 5 min. Now I have a 60 lb pump in my hands and my gun is at camp. I have spray but no free hand while carrying the pump back to camp. It was a very tense trip back. Carry the pump for a few steps, stopping to have look and so on till I got back to camp. Grabbed my gun, pumped a few into the air and bush. Grabbed the rest of my stuff, broke camp and left. The bear didn't care that I had a gun. I had fired it a few times the previous days.
Humans are not the top of the food chain. A human with a gun is! If they have the nerve and are a good shot. If not, it's a fancy club.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 8, 2017 17:48:13 GMT -5
Love you western folks. Bears would so cramp my style(assuming they are aggressive). Good food supply if she had triplets. Some of the biggest trophies whitetail are killed in backyards of subdivisions in Atlanta. Not tame deer, very wily wild deer. Nocturnal. Urban deer hunting, a new concept. Bow only. Govt. is interested in thinning population in 9 counties about Atlanta. In most of those counties you can kill a doe per day for almost 3 months straight. Govt. and insurance companies lobby for this arrangement to reduce auto accidents. The biggest are killed on the east side of the Chattahoochee River. Prevailing west winds blow the dense river fog into the east side forest growing rich lush plant life. The fog is rich in ammoniates, nitrates and phosphates from soap and sewage lol. Nutrient rich food for the plants makes some serious whitetails. Conversion. About the only way to see them during the day is to set a wind up alarm to go off in his bed and flush him for ambush. Or a dog, but that's illegal. Never knew black bears had a stalk instinct Billy.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Aug 8, 2017 20:06:21 GMT -5
Never knew black bears had a stalk instinct Billy. Their predators, of course they do. Once or twice a day I would hear a branch crack. I would fire a shot and would hear it crashing the bush. And then nothing for the rest of the day. The second day I seen the bush moving after a shot. On the third day after seeing the track going the same direction as me. I had enough and called it a trip. Most fatal attacks by North American black bears during the past century were conducted by lone, male animals that stalked and then killed their human victims as prey, according to a new study by the world's top authority on what triggers bear attacks. www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/lone-predatory-black-bears-responsible-most-human-attacks/2011/05/11/
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Post by bushmanbilly on Aug 8, 2017 20:09:56 GMT -5
Check this guys tale out.
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Post by bushmanbilly on Aug 11, 2017 15:56:34 GMT -5
Holy F@#$For Liz Desrosiers of Saskatoon it was a perfect day at the cabin on Cowan Lake, sitting on the back deck reading a good book on her e-reader and enjoying a glass of red wine. But then an unwanted guest lumbered up onto the deck. "I didn't see it, didn't hear it, and didn't smell it," Desrosiers told CBC Radio's Saskatoon Morning. The "it" in this story was a bear. Desrosiers' instincts took over. "Something inside me said freeze, so I just froze." Her hope was that the bear would just turn around, and walk back into the bush. This bear, however, seemed to have a curiosity streak and little fear of people. "He circled the coffee table, came and sat beside me on the left hand side of my chair, kind of looked at me, started sniffing my pant leg, brought his head up, stuck his nose in the side of my hair, started sniffing the side of my hair and then all of a sudden to the corner of my mouth, butted the corner of my mouth a couple of times, gave a few sniffs." "Please move on bear, just move on, just move on," she said she pleaded to herself, silently. Desrosiers held her breath, worried the bear would smell the red wine she had been enjoying. That seemed to throw the bear off a little, she said. "He just kind of backed up and looked at me a couple of seconds as if to say 'what are you?' and then turned around and headed down the stairs." Bear may have made a previous visit It's not the first time a bear had visited the cabin. Desrosiers said that paw prints had shown up on the cabin windows, not long before the visit on the deck. She said they've packed up the citronella candles, and have tidied up the recycling bin to try and dissuade future visits. Desrosiers's advice after this close encounter is to "listen to your instincts." Since then, Desrosiers has tried to return to the deck and get back into that book, but lately the story on her e-reader just isn't as engrossing. She said she's a little distracted, and on the lookout for bears. 1 reaction Sign in to post a message. Cindy Cindy27 minutes ago "Paw prints had shown up on the cabin windows not long before the visit"...maybe you should lay off the wine and pay attention lol Reply00 ca.news.yahoo.com/curious-bear-gets-close-personal-182800247.html
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