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Photo Essay: Angry squirrel vs. hungry owl (Hey, it's a break from election angst,Enjoy!)
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Posted on 11/02/2008 9:20:50 AM PST by yankeedame

Angry squirrel vs. hungry owl



TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: squirrel
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1 posted on 11/02/2008 9:20:50 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

did the little guy get away?

squirrels are awesomely smarter than most people recognize


2 posted on 11/02/2008 9:22:35 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: yankeedame

OUCH!


3 posted on 11/02/2008 9:22:35 AM PST by kimchi lover (Joe the Plumber is my Homeboy!)
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To: yankeedame

LOL! Never underestimate the ability to fight for your freedom, I guess.


4 posted on 11/02/2008 9:22:49 AM PST by conservative cat (I am voting for Sarah and against Obama.)
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To: yankeedame

the Owl is Obama, and the Squirrel is flyover country.


5 posted on 11/02/2008 9:23:15 AM PST by Ancient Drive
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To: yankeedame

How humiliating for the owl! LOL!


6 posted on 11/02/2008 9:26:00 AM PST by LiberConservative ("Typical white guy")
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To: Ancient Drive

Haha - great answer... notice Obama’s claws....


7 posted on 11/02/2008 9:26:27 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Obama prays to himself: "The prayer that I tell myself every night ...")
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To: silverleaf
did the little guy get away?

You asking about the owl???? LOL!

8 posted on 11/02/2008 9:29:02 AM PST by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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To: yankeedame
God I hate squirrels - they are almost as bad of a vermin as are deer.

And when they get in your attic and start eating your electrical cables and your house burns down, they are even worse than deer [the worst you can expect from a deer is that when you hit it at 65MPH, it will come through the windshield and kill you instantly].

PS: Had to stop midsentence as I was typing because I saw a squirrel out the window and had to go shoot it. Caught it on the run and required three shells to put him completely out of his misery.

PPS: Have noticed that since I went on this mission to eradicate all of the squirrels around here, we are now seeing some gorgeous & exceptionally large red-headed woodpeckers in our nut trees which I have never seen before now - I think the squirrels were crowding them out of the ecosystem, but now they feel safe to move back in.

Squirrels are vermin. Eradicate them.

9 posted on 11/02/2008 9:29:43 AM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: silverleaf
Smart? No. Tiny peanut brains. Curious yes. These rodentia have damaged vehicles on my property to the tune of $1800, and with the help of a BB gun I have reduced their numbers by 22 over 2 years. I'm going for zero growth.

Sorry the owl came up short.

I hate squirrels.

10 posted on 11/02/2008 9:30:34 AM PST by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: kimchi lover

Yowza!

He got some choppers, don’t he?

Funny, a while back this summer I saw this critter cross the road and I’m looking at it like WTF is that?

Not a coon, not a possum, not a rat, not a rabbit... turned out it was a gray squirrel that had lost it’s tail somehow!

Surprised it could survive very well, because they use their tails alot navigating and balancing in the trees.


11 posted on 11/02/2008 9:30:59 AM PST by djf (I have dimes. Brother, can you spare a dame?)
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To: nnn0jeh; Cailleach

ping


12 posted on 11/02/2008 9:33:28 AM PST by kalee
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To: yankeedame

There’s a squirrel in our back yard that terrorizes our dog ALL THE TIME. He sits up in one or another of the trees and throws things down at the dog. And hits him with some those things.

Then he jumps from tree to tree, and runs along the 6’ high wood fence, just teasing the dog.

My neighbor says he uses his .22 with low power ammunition to shoot the squirrels in his trees. I’m tempted to hire my neighbor for a day.


13 posted on 11/02/2008 9:33:38 AM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: yankeedame

That is a fantastic series of photographs. I am also a photographer, so please, please, please - next time give the citation to the owner of the works in the comment or the headline. We hate to see our works posted without credit due. However, thank you for posting the link citation, but most will not follow it, so crediting the photographer and is website first is most appreciated.


14 posted on 11/02/2008 9:33:48 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: silverleaf
squirrels are awesomely smarter than most people recognize

So true. Just think of how they can remember where they buried their nuts.

The Travel Channel had a program on one night that was the "10 Smartest Animals." Squirrels were on the list. They showed squirrels taking their nuts to a street so that the cars would run over them and crack them open. After the car went by, the squirrels would run back to the street to retrieve their cracked nuts.

15 posted on 11/02/2008 9:38:19 AM PST by DallasDeb
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To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot

NUTZ

16 posted on 11/02/2008 9:38:33 AM PST by usmcobra (There are 665,000,000 reasons why Obama should show his eligibility to be president!)
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To: usmcobra

LOL! Get some! I’m gonna need some more firepower for those rats..


17 posted on 11/02/2008 9:41:25 AM PST by LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot ("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

I hope you put it in your pot (or freezer)

Squirrel is about the best tasting small game there is!


18 posted on 11/02/2008 9:41:47 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: DallasDeb

I had trained several backyard squirells to crawl up my pantsleg to accept pecans. Got a cat and he soon put a stop to that!


19 posted on 11/02/2008 9:45:52 AM PST by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

Squirrels are yummy, especially with gravy. ;~)


20 posted on 11/02/2008 9:46:14 AM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.)
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