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Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 04:00 AM
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Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 04:00 AM
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Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 04:14 AM
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Nice share. Must say you have some skills with your camera!
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 04:26 AM
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High protein meal,
lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 06:13 AM
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High protein meal,
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 11:44 AM
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That's pretty cool. I've always been fascinated by those birds. I've seen them out here picking at dead rabbits on the side of the lease road.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 12:35 PM
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Cool pic sequence. Why do you think that bird got into the coon cage? To avoid the birds attacking it?
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 12:46 PM
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Some days your the Caracara some days your the Cardinal ...
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 12:52 PM
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Cool pic sequence. Why do you think that bird got into the coon cage? To avoid the birds attacking it? That bird got into the cage to get to the corn on the spinner plate, they are seed/grain eaters. It must have found a spot in the cage the coons had opened up enough to slip in. Then could not find it back. It could have been killed by a hawk also and then it could not get it out of the cage.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 01:14 PM
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 01:24 PM
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Really neat pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 01:41 PM
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That's some really good pics.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 01:47 PM
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Really cool Great flight pictures of the shrike
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 02:27 PM
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Shrikes area also called "Butcher Birds" for their habit of impaling insects and other small creatures with thorns to eat later. They've also been known to use the barbs on a fence.
Guess they don't mind a free meal as well! Cool pics STX. Love the TC series of the hawks hunting the bird as well.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 02:30 PM
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Some days your the Caracara some days your the Cardinal ... Isn't that the truth!
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 02:50 PM
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Great pics STX as always!
Why the varmint cage? I thought you were running Eliminator plates?
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 11:15 PM
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Great pics STX as always!
Why the varmint cage? I thought you were running Eliminator plates? I do on my place I live on but this feeder has been on that place since 2004. I tried to put the Eliminator Plate on that feeder in Sept but needed to remove the downspout and did not have the right tools with me.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 11:20 PM
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Wow, interesting photos! I thought surely, that little bird just wants feathers for nesting material... then finished reading your post. Crazy!
Love the second set of photos too.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/12/16 11:42 PM
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Neat photos. It looks like a pack of Harris Hawks in the second sequence.
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/13/16 12:45 AM
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Nothing like a good bird head appetizer
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/13/16 12:56 AM
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/13/16 12:32 PM
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Butcher birds is what we have always called them. Look for large insects, lizards, and even small mice impelled on thorns and barbed wire. I've read they store them that way to eat later, but after watching a pair nest and raise chicks this year, I'm convinced it's for display and marking territory. It was always the male sticking lizards and grasshoppers on thorns, but only while the female was there watching and they never ate them...
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/13/16 04:24 PM
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I have been training these Caracara's to be Attack Birds and bring me Coons and lay at my feet STX
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/13/16 04:36 PM
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Second sequence Harris Hawks?
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Re: Not your normal carrion eating bird.....
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01/13/16 04:55 PM
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