Topic: BIRD MAN!

[dave500]

i was tinkering in the shed today when our dog went ballistic!i spotted a weird looking guy with a tv aerial on my property just outside the fenced area,turns out he lives over the back from us and has a pet hawk he lets fly and tracks it with a radio jigger,he said its up in that tree there and called it and #$%* me dead it flew down to him!pretty cool!my dog was going berserk at it but "SID"the hawk didn't even flinch,probably eat a puppy?the guy told me he does shows etc with birds at local retreats and such,he had a bit of dead bush turkey his mate ran over in his car and gave him for the bird to eat.

[MoMo]

Cool life experience you had Dave. That is one beautiful bird...Larry

[Sapphireminer]

Looks a nice spot where you call home Dave great photos of a beautiful  bird thanks for sharing.
Dave

[madmtnmotors]

Makes you glad you didn't shoot him for trespassing! 

Very cool by the way. 

[dave500]

plenty of bird life here,groups of cockatoos/kookaburras little colourfull finches etc,magpies,butcher birds.

[dave500]

got a good close up of a falcon nesting in a tree today!

[Kevin D]

 I'm not a bird man, but I think that is a white goshawk.

[Stev-o]

We have a lot of Turkey Vultures around here. They eat all the roadkill and look beautiful when flying...

[BomberMann650]

plenty of bird life here,groups of cockatoos/kookaburras little colourfull finches etc,magpies,butcher birds.

This ain't your ordinary house pet.
This.
Is.
FALCONRY!!!

Have to be licensed to fly those predators where I'm at.

[dave500]

yeah I think he said they are mostly grey?

[MoMo]

We have a lot of Turkey Vultures around here. They eat all the roadkill and look beautiful when flying...

the wing span on some is truly amazing.   A couple flew over us when we were trail riding in New Joisey and the shadow cast over us just about darkened the three of us

[seanbarney41]

We have a lot of Turkey Vultures around here. They eat all the roadkill and look beautiful when flying...

the wing span on some is truly amazing.   A couple flew over us when we were trail riding in New Joisey and the shadow cast over us just about darkened the three of us

I recently had one swoop at me while I was riding...had to duck my head right down behind the clocks, #$%*ing scary!

[Stev-o]

We have a lot of Turkey Vultures around here. They eat all the roadkill and look beautiful when flying...

the wing span on some is truly amazing.   A couple flew over us when we were trail riding in New Joisey and the shadow cast over us just about darkened the three of us

I recently had one swoop at me while I was riding...had to duck my head right down behind the clocks, #$%*ing scary!

That must have freaked you out!

[Kevin D]

I had a face-off with a turkey vulture a while back. It nearly ended badly for me:
I'm on a dirt road in farm country. The trees are planted tightly in windrows along both sides of the road. There is a big bird (not BigBird) in the middle of the road gnawing on some roadkill. Probably a turkey vulture, maybe an eagle, way bigger than a hawk. As I approach, he stays on the road kill beyond when I would expect him to be leaving. So I slow just a bit, and finally he takes off, but instead of heading for the field, he is flying straight at me, about head high, down the middle of the road. So here I am, playing chicken with a bird, my 35mph plus whatever his speed is. His idea not mine. At about 50 feet I was ready to concede victory to the bird, slam on the brakes, swerve, full tuck, I don't know, when at last he made a sharp left and found an opening in the trees. I didn't check the road kill as I passed but it occurred to me that it might have been an earlier arriving motorcyclist.

I found a video of a rabbit hunter using two hawks and a ferret.

[dave500]

quite a dedicated hobby,this bird in a cage once held up its wings to me with its chest poked out saying "scratch scratch,scratch scratch"so when I went to scratch its belly it #$%*ing latched onto me!never trust a talking bird!another time the wife and I were staying at a resort off peak with no one else around,there was a bird in a cage saying hello etc,for two days I was teaching it to say "show us your tits"it mustve gotten sick off me cause it latched onto my ear!

[ken65]

ha ha bloody ha. good one.

[ken65]

Got this magpie that comes under the house and drops little bombs everywhere.
A mate gave it a few twisties awhile ago and the thing pops in all the time.
It snuck in behind me the other day and got locked in. Nearly had a heart attack the next time I went in.
Nearly took my head off trying to get out.

[spotty]

where i used to live in the northern burbs all the magpies were lean mean and fighting fit, where i live now up in the hills they're all quite sleek and healthy looking ( and nowhere near as attacky ) but i was walking through the carpark at work the other day i saw one of our local birds and they are obviously have a much easier time of it round here cos the bastard looked like a footy with a beak, fat little bastard

also at the old house i saw an albino magpie, instead of blk/wht it was sort of coffee and white coloured

as you'd expect up in the hills we get quite a range, swallow/swifts, owls, native pigeons, eagles, hawks, magpies, kookaburras , white cockatoos, black cockatoos, different sorts of parrots, little super quick things with bodies about the size of a chooks egg and loads of other stuff i got no idea about....and the two rabbits that live in our front yard

[MoMo]

Got this magpie that comes under the house and drops little bombs everywhere.
A mate gave it a few twisties awhile ago and the thing pops in all the time.
It snuck in behind me the other day and got locked in. Nearly had a heart attack the next time I went in.
Nearly took my head off trying to get out.

jumping jehosaphat,  I think I'd expel waste matter all over myself if I turned around and saw that in my shop

[dave500]

magpies are great they can get real tame,old place we had a few would come and hand feed easy,old workshed we had one would come in during welding and grinding looking for your lunch discards,we called him fearless,theyll defend their area during breeding though and swoop and peck ya head,and #$%*ing pluvvers!aint they #$%*s when they have a nest,stupid #$%*s put em right on the ground and will really dive bomb you,we had a nest year after year at work once,had to run to your truck in the mornings,i managed to place a golf ball in its nest next to its eggs and it never kicked it out!dumb arse bird.

[ken65]

Got this magpie that comes under the house and drops little bombs everywhere.
A mate gave it a few twisties awhile ago and the thing pops in all the time.
It snuck in behind me the other day and got locked in. Nearly had a heart attack the next time I went in.
Nearly took my head off trying to get out.

This boys not to bad. Sometimes when I've had enough of him I shut the door so he cant come in
and he sits on thee mower handle bar and stairs at me.






jumping jehosaphat,  I think I'd expel waste matter all over myself if I turned around and saw that in my shop