Found the Alpha Woodpecker
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Found the Alpha Woodpecker
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Ha! That's some serious wood pecking! Not from Colorado I would guess. There's only one record of Pileated Woodpecker in the state, from the Aspen area around 1938, and that record is suspect. ;>)
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Originally Posted by davsel
Saw a couple more bull snakes by the garden today. This guy was most likely a little over 4' long. He got a little pissed when he tried crawling into his hole and I pulled him out. He went into full-on rattlesnake-mimic mode...hissing, shaking his tail in the grass and flattening his head. I thought he looked like he was ready to bite my dumbass so I left him alone:
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Checking the owl boxes on the farm over the weekend, I discovered four nestling Western Screech-owls in a box in an elm. Six weeks ago I checked the box and evicted a nest of 6 Starling eggs. In their place grew the four small owls. Good trade as far as I'm concerned.
This box is about 30 yards from another box that had four young screech-owls last year at this date. Unfortunately, last year the young owls didn't stick around in the yard as they might normally would. We think this is because there was a magpie nest about 15 feet away, and the young owls and magpies fledged about the same time. There must have been a big to-do, as one of the baby magpies was killed and the adult owls took their young elsewhere.
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This one is begging to be made into many memes!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hummer
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Originally Posted by Irving
Have my neighbor believing i found that in their back aley.