These arent actually of today...

[Cubfan64]

These aren't actually of today...

but rather from the fall of last year. We had a local grouse that apparently decided our neighborhood was HIS domain!! He stayed around the area from around October through the winter and was gone in spring.

He went into people's garages, chased cars down the road and driveway and would follow me around the yard while I mowed the lawn.

He wasn't tame or anyone's pet that I know of, but he sure acted weird!!! Pretty cool to be able to come that close to him though.

 

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[COUNTRY GIRL]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

Ohhh too sweet. I'd have kept it but..... Micki would have had tooooo much fun, or tried to, if she had enough energy ! Great picture!

 

[Cubfan64]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

Ohhh too sweet. I'd have kept it but..... Micki would have had tooooo much fun, or tried to, if she had enough energy ! Great picture!

Hehe - yah, my Brittany wasn't too pleased with us for not letting him outside to "play" with his new toy when the grouse flew into the pine tree by our back deck, climbed down a branch and jumped onto the railing to watch my wife water her flowers - I'll see if I can dig up that picture with our dog on one side of the glass slider door and the grouse on the other

 

[fossis]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

Neat pic, thanks for sharing.

Fossis.............

 

[watercolor]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

That is a neat pic. . . maybe some of the neighbors had been feeding it and was following you around for its next free meal.

 

[Cubfan64]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

That is a neat pic. . . maybe some of the neighbors had been feeding it and was following you around for its next free meal.

I did find out that some were feeding it, so that's a distinct possibility. It was so weird though because it would seem to come running as soon as you started making noises. In fact, like I said, it would follow me around while I mowed the lawn. Eventually it started even getting a little "aggressive" in that if you turned your back on it and started walking away, it would come up really fast and peck/flap at the back of your leg.

We were afraid of running it over with the car because it would chase us down the driveway and often just stand there in front of us until we got out and tried to shoo it off the road at which point it would leave and then run back after us as we started moving.

We have coyotes, fishers, cats etc... in the neighborhood, so I didn't actually expect it to stay alive as long as it did - it's gone now, so I don't know if it was killed or just decided to move on to a better neighborhood.

It was pretty neat though - we never fed it as I generally don't like to encourage wild animals like that since it makes them so susceptible to being hurt, captured or killed.

 

[COUNTRY GIRL]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

Sounds more like a goose, we used to have one like that. If you turned around and stomped your foot, he was running the other way. It must have been fun having it around .

Did you find the other picture yet?

 

[River Rat]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

Real neat lil birdie. I thought when I saw a real live roadrunner that those were cute too.

RR

 

[Mona Lisa]

Re: These aren't actually of today...

That's really interesting, Cubfan.

Thanks for the laugh. What a great "pet".