The Great Outdoors

ice grillin you · May 08, 2012, 08:08:53 PM

Quote from: hbionic on May 08, 2012, 04:05:08 PM
White farging People

lol

Diomedes · May 15, 2012, 06:28:34 PM

two short phone clips of a ribbon garter snake eating a frog, as mentioned earlier

yes, that noise is the frog distress call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC543bJm2mU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BSQKKn01nc

Sgt PSN · May 15, 2012, 08:03:34 PM

CRICKEY! You're a regular Steve Irwin.

Diomedes · May 15, 2012, 08:41:06 PM

Right before the frog was gone was the creepiest part because all you could see was it's face: an open mouth and moving eyes, inside an open mouth with moving eyes, being swallowed.

Yesterday I found a young Eastern painted box turtle in my mom's back yard, which is in Baltimore city, near Herring Run Park. How the farg it got there I don't know. I moved it down to Millersville, where I was headed on errands anyway, and dropped it in the protected Severn Run area.

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8069/20120514115729.jpg

(image too large, so click if you want to see it)

SD · May 15, 2012, 09:21:31 PM

I was hoping the second video would be of the Frog getting away. Poor little guy.

Diomedes · May 15, 2012, 09:35:53 PM

I thought about saving him at the very beginning but decided to mind my own f'n business. Snakes gotta eat too. Besides, it was far too fascinating to interrupt.

Sgt PSN · May 15, 2012, 11:42:09 PM

So wait a minute.....you hung around long enough to see the snake get the entire frog down it's gullet but you only recorded it getting 1 leg? Dick.

Also, that turtle looks a lot like a red eared slider. Are you certain it's a box turtle? I can't tell because it's head is tucked in, but if it had any red stripes around it's ear area, then that's what it was.

Yeti · May 16, 2012, 12:00:26 AM

Quote from: Sgt PSN on May 15, 2012, 11:42:09 PM
So wait a minute.....you hung around long enough to see the snake get the entire frog down it's gullet but you only recorded it getting 1 leg? Dick.

Also, that turtle looks a lot like a red eared slider. Are you certain it's a box turtle? I can't tell because it's head is tucked in, but if it had any red stripes around it's ear area, then that's what it was.

Oh hi Steve fargin Irwin. I heard you were dead.

General_Failure · May 16, 2012, 01:12:07 AM

We're getting a lot of Steve Irwin and things up asses lately. I wonder if there's any way to combine those.

Diomedes · May 16, 2012, 07:28:41 PM

Not a red eared slider, I'm sure. And no, I didn't get video of the whole thing. I had to work. It took the farger like 20 minutes to get Kermit down the hole.

Seabiscuit36 · May 31, 2012, 09:07:05 AM

The wife and i planted a decent sized garden this year. The same day we get the garden setup, i saw our first groundhog of the year. After two weeks, i finally had a chance to eliminate that problem and did yesterday. Took the dog into the woods to make sure the deed was done and holy crap the ticks are bad out. Pulled at least a dozen off him ranging from regular brown dog ticks to 5 deer ticks that we could find. Scary as can be that they're smaller than a poppy seed.

mussa · May 31, 2012, 04:30:46 PM

That does look like a red ear slider. Box turtles are more tortoise like more round, that guy is more sleek and slender for swimming. IDK....

Speaking of outdoors I just drove through my dads property after work and saw a fox and a snapping turtle when crossing the stream.

NATURE

mussa · May 31, 2012, 04:33:51 PM

Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on May 31, 2012, 09:07:05 AM
The wife and i planted a decent sized garden this year. The same day we get the garden setup, i saw our first groundhog of the year. After two weeks, i finally had a chance to eliminate that problem and did yesterday. Took the dog into the woods to make sure the deed was done and holy crap the ticks are bad out. Pulled at least a dozen off him ranging from regular brown dog ticks to 5 deer ticks that we could find. Scary as can be that they're smaller than a poppy seed.

So what did you shoot it with? My Dad shot a ground hog years ago and he grabbed his deer rifle for some odd reason. Well he aimed for the head and hit dead on. There was nothing left of the ground hogs head as you can imagine. Overkill if you will....

Seabiscuit36 · May 31, 2012, 07:20:22 PM

Yeah, I didn't want take out the big toys so i stuck with a Browning .22LR and subsonic rounds to eliminate that extra pop. Definitely didn't blow up like a woodchuck pinata. I would have left it alone, but every day he was creeping closer to the garden presumable to see what sprouted. F that. I lost half our canteloupe and almost all of our zucchini last year because of one of these fattys.

Diomedes · May 31, 2012, 08:27:15 PM

farg 'em. It's not like they're endangered.

My friend recently had to cull a big brave raccoon who spent to much time too close to the house. He didn't like doing it, but the alternative is unacceptable: Four year old goes outside to pet the raccoon at the back door....

He at least has the respect for nature to dig a good hole and bury the carcass.