tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post8011769860324650484..comments2023-09-18T06:38:04.194-04:00Comments on Palemaleirregulars: Great Horned Owls and a Wisconsin SkunkDonegal Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09809720759418462703noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-90929244572819311232009-04-26T00:37:00.000-04:002009-04-26T00:37:00.000-04:00Karen,
Very interesting about two dens of foxes i...Karen,<br /><br />Very interesting about two dens of foxes in the same area. I would guess that like Red-tails, the prey depth is a deciding factor. Also perhaps like the Red-tail nests, N1 and N2, the nests just happen to be very near the invisible territory line with the territories, I assume, spreading out to a reasonable size from there.Donegal Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09809720759418462703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-20784500815947573222009-04-26T00:34:00.000-04:002009-04-26T00:34:00.000-04:00Hello Sally and Karen,
I looked for a visually ac...Hello Sally and Karen, <br />I looked for a visually accessible nest for a couple of years before I found one so keep up the looking, you'll run across one eventually I'm betting.<br /><br />The Ms, I think, are nesting in an old Oak tree of some kind, according to the leaves I'm seeing still on twigs from last season. It also has that gnarly look of an old oak. I could be wrong of course as I've not gotten up close enough to look at the nodes and such other ID marks. <br /><br /> The tree by the Dollar General where I often see a Red-tail hunting, which I thought was an Oak from a distance, turned out to be an old Walnut, once I climbed the hill to look closely. It had no leaves on it, but plenty of last seasons walnuts underneath.<br /><br />And yes,Karen Anne though I was feeling somewhat hysterical about being lost and supposedly being somewhere else, I found all sorts of fascinating things while in the process. So actually a good thing after the fact anyway. I never did arrive at the place I was going that day, Pete Berno's shop (an engineer with a huge building chock full of antique machines, many of which he invented), as I was lost for so long, but I did manage to get there the next day to take photographs. But not without getting lost (of course) that day as well but only a little lost not a BIG lost like the previous day. <br /><br />Thank goodness for cell phones. Otherwise I'd still be out there finding fascinating goodies but getting expremely hungry by now. I think I only had a few Ritz Crackers with me for sustenance.Donegal Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09809720759418462703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-23730094870756193932009-04-26T00:20:00.000-04:002009-04-26T00:20:00.000-04:00Hi Karen Anne,
I'm thinking that my Skunk buddy w...Hi Karen Anne,<br /><br />I'm thinking that my Skunk buddy wasn't really all that upset, the tail up thing just being a mini warning. I surmise that if I'd gone across the road and gotten too close we'd have had some foot thumping. Sure would like to see one stand on his front paws, but don't want to set Skunk off either. :-) A bit of a tight rope walk that.Donegal Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09809720759418462703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-79469416185360652672009-04-25T23:56:00.000-04:002009-04-25T23:56:00.000-04:00Sally,
Aren't the wells wonderful? I have a grea...Sally,<br /><br />Aren't the wells wonderful? I have a great memory of going with my grandfather to a well, just off the main road. He had a number of jugs in the car which he took to the well which when he uncorked the water in some way, it shot up several feet in the air. You're right. The water is so cold and FRESH. It is a wonder.Donegal Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09809720759418462703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-47990017231177755352009-04-25T22:11:00.000-04:002009-04-25T22:11:00.000-04:00We had artesian wells in my home town in Illinois,...We had artesian wells in my home town in Illinois, too...seeing that one brought back memories. One was in a lot in the neighborhood, had a pump handle that you had to prime then it flowed like crazy until you shut it down; I guess it was to keep it from flowing all the time. the other was in a field near a railroad track, we used to stop by for a drink someitmes when out and around, before bottled water and nalgene! Such great tasting water, too-so fresh and clean.Sallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-14398731210612905642009-04-25T13:22:00.000-04:002009-04-25T13:22:00.000-04:00p.s. Half the fun of driving in the country is ge...p.s. Half the fun of driving in the country is getting lost and finding interesting places.Karen Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306986336556283751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-25813052308543222802009-04-25T10:55:00.000-04:002009-04-25T10:55:00.000-04:00Cute skunk! Perhaps getting lost is a good thing, ...Cute skunk! Perhaps getting lost is a good thing, leading to other adventures? At least, as long as you don't have a tight schedule! I loved those country road in Illinoins, I knew most of them, and the cut-throughs around the little cities. Your Ms had me looking for nests in the trees near the soccer fields at the edge of the county line where I dropped off my nephews today, but I didn't see any. There are plenty of farms, they are probably nesting further from people. Do you know what kind of tree the Ms are in? Not a sycamore but big. i keep looking at the sycamores in the lowland along fields but no luck.Sallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27276563.post-51152292756389960902009-04-25T06:59:00.000-04:002009-04-25T06:59:00.000-04:00What happened to that thumping of feet business by...What happened to that thumping of feet business by skunks that I thought had been written about awhile back? I was thinking I would know when I was about to upset a skunk :-)<br /><br />If my various neighbors are correct, our neighborhood has several fox residents, including at least two dens. I had thought they had bigger territories.Karen Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306986336556283751noreply@blogger.com