ONE TOUGH MOTHER !

[lonehunter]

NO . IT'S NOT A HOOD ORNIMENT , THIS MOTHER GROUSE HAD HER CHICKS FLY OFF TO BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD AS WE APPROACHED . SHE KEPT US AT BAY AND WOULDN'T LET US PASS UNTILL THEY WERE ALL GATHERED .

THATS ONE TOUGH MA MA !


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[Flagmanonice]

[] Had breakfest with the local warden yesterday , on the way out , we had a family of mallards we help cross the road by the resteraunt (busy traffic ) Its worth the wait !!!!!

Flagmanonice................Quack
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[lonehunter]

LOL ! i do the same thing ! ducks and turtles ! the iddy bitty turtles , for the gators ( snappers ) we grab a branch , let them clamp on it then drag them across the road by there tails . takes a lot of practice , one wrong move and your in bigtime pain .
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[davetclown]

I like to give them snappers a ride down to the soup pot []

snapper chowder, yumyum
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[lou]

hey there lonehunter! thats[cool] she does look like my partride. she sure was tough hahaa louie almost had a chickmunk by the tail when we went over to the camp grouuund in laconia. hhaa funny watchin him chase that bugger haha later good picture.[][cool]
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[lou]

hey flag how ya doin been fishin?? i haven,t since i been back. RELAXIN!!! HAHA THAT,S COOL. THEY MUST OF BEEN CUTE. I USE TO HAVE mallard back years ago fer pets. they were cute too. my rooster use to ride in basket on my bike when i was a kid. too haha he was cool. it fun to warch animals they can be so comical sometimes. when i was workin in claremont every mornin i,d go by this one farm and i,d have to wait fer mother goose and her tribe to cross the road to go to the pond. so cute. later
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[lou]

haha i guess os. jack one caught one on the hook last year just cut the line he must of had a 2- 3 ft round. big! i imagine they git bigger there. thought he had a log on! louie was playin with the little mud turtles barkin at em and pullin by the tail to kepp em from goin back into the water but when he see that one and bigger than him he was stunned fer a bit then strted barkin at it. he didn,t git near that one whether he wanted to or not. haha big head! mouth! i haven,t seen one like him since i was 6 and walkin to school. it was on the side walk and i turned around and went home. haha scat me. haha [][cool][laugh][laugh]
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[lou]

hey dave how ya doin?? was wonderin if ya still got the swan?? how he doin?? guess the indians round the arears use to like eatin em too. been to good many powwow,s and they sell the shell. sometimes made ornaments too. cool. i,ve never tried it. hey hoow do ya clean em out dave??? what ya do??? later just wonderin.[][][cool]
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[davetclown]

the swan is doing fine. it is swinging around the lake.

to clean the shells the Squaws of the tribe fish the shells out of the bottom of the river, they crack them open with their stone tomihowks, then they suck out the mussle with their teeth for breakfast. then they lick any stuff left in the shell out with their toungs. and to tell the trouth they most likley find them on the river side already cleaned the same as I do up here. [center][sly][/center] [left]to clean a shell is not any different than prepairing oisters on the half shell. you cut them open with a nife use a dull butter nife to scrape the mussle loose.[/left]
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[lou]

i,m so happy to hear it dave! that,s cool. do ya think she,ll stay there durin the winter with you or go now? that,s cool bout how she feed on the shells. i didn,t realize they could do that/ or they ate them. swans are so beautiful been seein hundreds of the canadian geese here. i hear em every mornin flyin to go to the pondd and at night they go back to the connecticut river. been deein moma and daddiy,s everywhere with the little ones with the down feathers on em. i,d love to bring them all home. haha thanks fer lettin me know bout her been wonderin. she must be good and fat with ya feedin her good all winter haha take care mare
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[lonehunter]

we've got a family of canadian honkers on a private pond up here , the kids are already half the size of the parents !
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[lonehunter]

turkey mom and her 9 kids in my backyard this week ( tuesday ).
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