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That's a well-known route for viewing bluebonnets. It's a back road loop that normally sees 4 - 10 cars a day. probably all property owners and/or locals. During bluebonnet season on weekends, it may get 1,000 - 2,000 cars a day. For whatever reason someone put a boot on that stretch of fencing one year. The landowner removed it. Another one showed up and another and another for about 3/4 mile. He removes them after the season now. And next season here they come again. It's become a tradition and a lure nowadays. Here's my granddaughters posing in front of one of the boots in 2015
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Planning on going hopefully next weekend
 
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DLJeffs said:
Nice eagle sitings. There was an article in the paper today that said researchers had been testing eagles since 2010 and found almost 60% had some level of lead poisoning. Sounded high to me but that's what it said. Bald eagles are primarily carrion scavengers so I guess they'd be feeding on injured ducks and stuff that flew far enough away to not be retrievable.
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I do not believe it. When I was a kid you saw no eagles. First in Yellowstone in 1962 at 300 yards. Now they circle above watching my chickens. They are everywhere . Of course you never hear in mainstream about how many wind turbines kill. I think 60% is part of anti gun movement.
 
Mike1950 said:
I do not believe it. When I was a kid you saw no eagles. First in Yellowstone in 1962 at 300 yards. Now they circle above watching my chickens. They are everywhere . Of course you never hear in mainstream about how many wind turbines kill. I think 60% is part of anti gun movement.
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I never saw one until I was in Grad School in WI. Prairie du Sac dam. Now down here in Illinois. See them all the time even though we are 30 miles east of the Mississippi. On the way home from town today, even spotted a nest with at least one sitting parent.
 
Gdurfey said:
so sad, one part of the state is burning up, and the other is in its spring beauty!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never stop loving a picture like that. Needs an old barn and a windmill...........just saying.
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Go ahead Garry, Bob Ross the thing. Bet with your computer skills you could cut and paste a barn and, "Let's just plant a pretty little weathered barn right here. Oh, see how the shadow slips in to greet this old, old windmill cresting the ridge...".
 
Cliff. said:
Yes, peregrines very active here too, over the mississippi river. A fellow w/ binocs said they knocked a passing mallard out of the sky.
There are two pair with nests nearby. I watched an eagle drift along into their space, he flared upside down, a falcon was up above and did this blistering flyby down on him, almost gave him a haircut. I don't know if it scared him, it scared me.
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Peregrines are fierce defenders of their "property". I watched one dive bomb white-bellied sea eagles off the coastal cliffs in the Royal Nat'l Park of Australia, south of Cronulla. The sea eagle weighs about 10 peregrines but the sea eagle left the area.
 
We had no eagles until about 30 years ago, we built a hacking tower on Boss's property on the Cumberland River and the ones that know how to do that kinda thing - hacked about 200. Now, they are not an unusual sighting as long as there is substantial water near! My favorite sightings are when I am thigh deep in a trout stream and one flies over me and scolds me for catching his fish and saying I had better release those slippery boogers back into his river. I speak eagle!
 
A couple pictures I took in Oregon. Some really beautiful nature to see there. 20220407_152125.webp 20220407_132902.webp
 
There's nothing to see in Oregon. Best stay home. And the way our water situation looks those waterfalls may be all dried up by July.
 
Thinking of your Mom Patsy and my deepest condolences and prayers to you @Mike Hill. The “Survivor Tree”- it is the very last tree in the 9/11 Memorial grounds to lose it’s leaves during the Fall season and it is the first tree to flower during the Spring Season. Peace, serenity and God bless you & your family…….

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