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Looking at the weather reports it looks like you guys in the pines have more snow than we have here in South Dakota! Ten to eleven inches? Really? Sheesh, I hope you get some great pics . Must be beautiful! Dave

I remember bumping a mature bald eagle off a carrion snack (road-kill rattler) in west Texas and thinking the same thing ..."no water - what the Hell's he doin' here?" but then realized that once he got up a few hundred feet he was probably within line-of-sight of both the Rio Pecos and the Rio...

Results of long-term observation of nest-banded balds show that it takes four to five years to gain full adult plumage. By the bye - some folks in Homer, AK, consider that little ol' lady who feeds the bald eagles scrap from the fish processing plant on the Homer Spit to be having a...

Way to go, Bob! Nice shots! Doesn't a sight like that just make your heart swell a size or two? Dave

Yeah; paintball paint is water-soluble and bio-degradable - even the stuff made to shoot when it's well below freezing. My son and a bunch of his high-school pals - guys as well as girls - are paint-ballers. Almost all are rural kids and they each host a paintball war once - rarely twice - a...

Bob, That looks to be a good summary of the situation to me. It's the newly resident geese, not the migrants, that are the problem, and I'm glad the powers-that-be are using a bit of that inappropriately-named commodoty "common sense" to deal with it. These newly resident lazy greensward...

For a 'yote to make prints the size you reported seeing, I figure it'd have to be about four foot high at the shoulders; maybe higher. Dave

Cook it well; at least as well as you'd cook pork. They are a source of Trichinosis ... Big Time! Dave

About a month ago my wife and I were driving down a nearby county road at the height of South Dakota's pheasant season. Just after we past three out-of-state cars (Illinois) parked at the roadside we looked down into a slight hollow and there, encircling a small patch of brush, were eight...

Hey, Bob, Sure glad you took your camera! Terrific shots! Horned larks and snow buntings are all I saw today on our white and icy roadsides. My camera isn't thawed out yet after 3 days without power and heat. Back on now. Life is better! Dave

Ocelots don't roar; they scream and compared with the scream of the much larger puma/cougar/catamount/mountain lion, theirs is definitely wimpy, and the smaller margay's and jaguarundi's even wimpier. Dave

The previous lists pretty well covered my preferences and not-to-be-forgottens. I do wish I could include "friends" - but with my hips and knees, I'm so exasperatingly slow that I've long since been left to my own devices when back-packing or climbing - so one very important item is a bright...

Sort of puts a new face to the term "animal rights activist'... don't it? Dave

Now let's not confuse The Pennsylvania State University ("Penn State"), which is located almost exactly at the geographic center of Pennsylvania - in Centre County - by-the bye - with Lock Haven State which is located in ... wait for it ... LOCK HAVEN ... which is located at a distinct remove...

Thanks, Boyd ! Haven't heard anyone refer to "Pennsyltucky" since my Dad's older brother - Uncle Dave - died in '63. I'm wondering to how many on this list is the term familiar? Dave

You got that right, Bob. But could you hear my cussin' all the way from there? Musta been more upset and outta control than I thought... It does get to me; each additional American death in Iraq results in an increase in the administration's resolve to "...stay the course..."(with...

C'mon, Bob ... is that the first line of a joke of ... questionable ... propriety? Dave

Nice shots, Jeff In my experience, the black racer is the single most reliably aggressive snake in the U.S. Granted, most will withdraw rapidly when approached, but I have had the occassional individual strike at me and continue to pursue me as I backed away some considerable distance. My dad...