Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: iowabow on August 04, 2013, 08:33:12 pm
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We call him Bob......Annette took this picture this morning!
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Cool! 8) I would call him Quiver. ;D I would be very careful, if you have any house cats. They,(Lynx, Bob Cats, etc.) will kill and eat them. Pretty cool you got the photo. I used to watch them, when I hunted in the Big Cypress area.
Wayne
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Cool pic! We have tons around here never seen one that close to a house. They will sometimes stalk the ducks on our neighbors pond in the winter.
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Choot! Choot!!
Cipriano
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Cool pic. I just picked up a big ol' tom hide Im making into a quiver some decade soon.
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Good timely moment pic.BTW there are real lions in Iowa all over the state.The boys shot one 4 miles from my place.
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Bobs aren't known for letting just anyone take a picture of them. They tend to keep to themselves rather well.
And yes, they will solve a cat infestation. Or rabbit, turkey, etc...
I have a couple bobcat skulls I collected years back. Both had been killed and eaten by golden eagles. Who woulda thunk a 12 lb bird could kill one of these wildcats?
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Bobs aren't known for letting just anyone take a picture of them. They tend to keep to themselves rather well.
And yes, they will solve a cat infestation. Or rabbit, turkey, etc...
I have a couple bobcat skulls I collected years back. Both had been killed and eaten by golden eagles. Who woulda thunk a 12 lb bird could kill one of these wildcats?
But you have to consider the fact that like an owl, they try to hit their prey in the back to break it. So 12lbs, at "X" mph, striking an animal in the back, tends to accomplish it's goal. Their have been people killed by Great Horned Owls, using the same technique, and which ended up with the person dying from a broken neck. :o The Great Horned Owl, which I also believe is the only natural predator to the Eagle. Correct me if I am wrong here J.W. Since owls primarily hunt at dusk, and night, and Eagles sleep during that time, they can become prey. :o
Just wait till I get bigger, Kitty, then you're all mine...... Hey, Eagle, yeah, I'm talkin to you Baldy! You have to sleep sometime. Just try not to look into my eyes!.....yes......sleeeep...... ;D ;D
Wayne
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I have a couple bobcat skulls I collected years back. Both had been killed and eaten by golden eagles. Who woulda thunk a 12 lb bird could kill one of these wildcats?
That's insane.
Bobs aren't known for letting just anyone take a picture of them. They tend to keep to themselves rather well.
And yes, they will solve a cat infestation. Or rabbit, turkey, etc...
I have a couple bobcat skulls I collected years back. Both had been killed and eaten by golden eagles. Who woulda thunk a 12 lb bird could kill one of these wildcats?
But you have to consider the fact that like an owl, they try to hit their prey in the back to break it. So 12lbs, at "X" mph, striking an animal in the back, tends to accomplish it's goal. Their have been people killed by Great Horned Owls, using the same technique, and which ended up with the person dying from a broken neck. :o The Great Horned Owl, which I also believe is the only natural predator to the Eagle. Correct me if I am wrong here J.W. Since owls primarily hunt at dusk, and night, and Eagles sleep during that time, they can become prey. :o
Wayne
Dang, that's insane too.
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Bobcats have killed eagles here in Florida... and I have proof (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianeharper/3319792016/):D
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Turn about fair play..... ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Wayne
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I once saw a man eating perch.
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Well I certainly hope he cleaned it first! :P
Wayne
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Northern Saw-Whet Owl. Hat is photoshopped, otherwise I would need to track the idiot down and put a "beanie" on him.
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Well who tugged on your tail feathers?! :o Don't you have cages to clean, and water dishes to be cleaned and refilled? Still cute though. ;) Maybe a Fedora, at an angle would be better. ;)
Wayne
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STICKBENDER
I read a book called NINO COCHEISE the grandson of the great cheif COCHEISE. Their small band (mostly family)were the last to hold out. Like 20 some years. The lived on a high hidden massa before they were found out by a rancher looking for cows. They talk about a child beind killed by a owl many years before. I can't remember much about it it was 40 or so years since I read the book.
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CrooketArrow;
I had read about the Great Horned Owls having killed people, in either Outdoor Life, or Sportsafield, yeas ago, when I was a teenager, or early twenties. I can't remember which magazine it was, as I used to read them both. But the article talked about how a game warden was killed, and his neck was broken. It also told of others, who had been killed by them. Not a lot of people, but nonetheless it lets you know what they are capable of. I think I have read of the Nino Band before. I don't know if he was with Geronimo when they forced out of the lava fields, by cannon fire. And then lied to by the Government. But I remember something about a few of them not surrendering. I was hit in the face by a screech owl, one night, when I was about 11 or 12 yrs. old. I was up in a tree, and my Buddy, and I were having a pine cone fight, and I was hiding up in a pine tree, and his carport light was on, and I just had my head, peeking around the tree, to see where he was, when, I see this whitish thing coming at me, and I am trying to figure out what it was, I thought too big for a moth, then just before it hit me in the face, I saw it was a Screech Owl, and it hit hard! :o Then it realized I was not in his prey category, and flew off. I climbed down, and told my Buddy what had happened. My face was scratched, and bleeding. Lucky I didn't get my eyes clawed. Which is probably what it saw, with the light reflecting off my eyes. The thing about an Owl versus an Eagle, or Hawk, is the Owls wing feathers, are not stiff, but soft, and make hardly any noise at all, so you don't hear them approaching. Which is what they rely on when hunting at night. ;)
Wayne