Hooters Calendar 2006--Check It Out!

[Scooter]

Well, its that time again guys, time for the new Hooters 2006 picture calendar. I didn't have the space to post the whole thing, only the first three months, but wow, these hooters are awesome.

Come, on, Whadya think I was going to post?? Sheesh, you guys have filthy minds.

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[Mike2]

Yea Scooter, there selling like hot cakes up here too. What you you think about Lorna Jiggles, Miss January?.... gotta be my favorite. And then there's Ms. March, lookin like some real mean bitch eh? :yeah:


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[muskymike]

Better git one for CX. He'd like one for sure. :yeah:

[Charles P]

Got my hopes and everything :bang: :bang:

[cx]

Y'all weird. :rolleyes:








How many of them birds in them pichers even hoot?

Hooters, yeah, right. Geeeeez! :D

[Dog paws]

cx, you seen this one yet?

http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=79&articleID=1158

[Shaughnn]

Michael,
I think I would have soiled myself if I saw that thing heading my way like that. :eek:
I'll bet CX is so bored of that sort of thing he takes a stick along to poke at 'em to make 'em meaner. :D
Shaughnn

[cx]

I can't make that link open. :(

[Rob Z]

Nice pictures at that site...

[cx]

Oh, is that all? Hell, I thought it was fixin' to be somethin' scary like a momma Goshawk comin' to knock my wretched ass out of a tree fifty feet up. :D

Did I tell y'all that story? Sure wish I could show you the video. :)

And last owl season I was tryin' to take a picher of a Spotted Owl taking a mouse off a log. So I pewt the mouse out and stand back about ten feet and I'm holdin' my camera up to my eye with both hands and I have my little clear-plastic mouse box hanging from my left pinkie and I'm watchin' and watin' for this bird to drop down on this mouse and I'm gonna get me a really good shot, right?

So what does the bird do? The bird lands right on top of my camera, which is stuck in my face, and wants to know if she can have one of them rats inna box! :D

They're a lot of fun. I've missed dozens of world-class photos of the little critters over the years. :)

[Dog paws]

Um, talons in your face is fun? :confused:
Sorry cx, you be the one that's weird. :stick:

[cx]

Well, Michael, I'm the last one who would argue that I'm not at least a little weird. :)

But that bird just pewt talons on my camera and my hand, actually, and very gently at that. She was interested in mice, I and my camera simply represented a place to try to sit - very briefly. But those talons are to be taken seriously, even when no malice is intended.

Now the Goshawk? That's a different story. She clearly had intent to draw blood and she is a very large bird with very large talons. I had to stay in that damn tree until dark to get myownself down without loosing any body parts. And all I was doin' was tryin' to take some pichers of her kids. Hell, most mommas is proud for peoples to take pichers of their kids, eh? :D

[Shaughnn]

So, where the Goshawk pitcher? :)
Shaughnn

[cx]

Unfortunately, Shaughnn, alla Goshawk pichers are movie-pichers taken with someone else's camera on accounta I don't have me no such camera and his has a real fine zoom lens and all. I didn't even take my still camera up with me that trip on accounta it just doesn't have enough lens to get any decent shots from maybe 80-feet away like I was.

I actually have some stills, but not of the "attack." the first wave of which is on the video. Everything after that is just what the mounted camera was seeing of the nest and nestlings, with some audio of their momma tryin' to kill my ass over yonder in the next tree. :D

Got some stills my friend took of the same nest with his camera through a spotting scope. I'll see can I post one so's y'all can say, "awww, ain't they cute." Don't have a good still of Momma.

[bbcamp]

Awww, ain't they cute!!!


:D

[Shaughnn]

Wow! Is a clutch of three a normal amount? I imagined raptors had clutches or two for some reason, probably because meat is less plentiful than non-meat?
Aw! How cute! :)
Shaughnn

[cx]

I think the clutch size is accepted to be 1 to 4 or 5, Shaughnn. It's difficult to collect that data without seriously disturbing the birds. I think three young is a pretty normal number, though, with two or three actually fledging.

Food is abundant for these birds most of the time on accounta there ain't much that lives in the forest they can't catch. It's absolutely amazing to watch something that big flying that fast through the trees and brush. It's kinda like watching a mature bull elk run full-tilt through the trees, where you're having trouble gettin' by, with that huge rack on top his head. You just wanna scratch you head and say, "how do they do that?"

Yep, I do love to watch Momma Nature show off her stuff. :)

[jvcstone]

I think three young is a pretty normal number, though, with two or three actually fledging.

:)

Few years back, I was up in the clock tower of the Waxahatchie court house with a stone setter putting together a proposal for some of the restoration work. We needed to climb out on the little parapet/balconey thingy to get a closer look at some of the stone needing replacement. There was a build up of 10 - 12 inches of guanno-not the most pleasant thing to wade through. Rounded a corner (its a 4 sided affair), and there were 3 just about to fledge, big, white owls giving us the once over. One of the most memorable experiences of my young life, concidering just how unexpected it was. For a moment, I even forgot how terrified I was being up there in the first place- especially without any safty gear. Kudo's to the general contractor-- they delayed any work in that area until the birds were grown and gone.
JVC

[cx]

Mostly their momma and poppa would just let you pick'em up and haul'em off, too, John. Well, I think the Great Horned is like that. Hell, the spotted owls will just let the little boogers sit onna ground until the coyote gets'em if they fall outa the nest. Don't pay'em no attention at all, cept to feed'em, seems like.

Tough out there inna wild. :shades:

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[Tool Guy - Kg]

:eek: HOLY SHARK!!
Look at the animal ripper-a-parters on that thing! YIKES!

[RLeVan]

We had a barn owl that made it's nest inside of our grain silo since it sin't being used. The door at the top of the silo would get stuck open so he/she would enter that way. To make a short story long, every evening we would hear a loud clang every once and a while. Turns out, it was the owl perching on that silo door after sundown and hunting around our Mercury Vapor lamp.

On a clear night, you could see it circling for field mice along with the bats. Too bad we haven't seen it in a couple years.