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Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on November 21, 2004, 08:54 PM:
Mommy is in San Diego with my 8 year old. So I took the 2, 4, and 6 year olds pheasant hunting today. I saw where someone had long ago torn down a barbed wire fence and it was all bundled into a tightly wound giant ball. On top was an impaled, frozen, and decapitated ermine (white phase weasel. It looked like maybe a raptor of some sort killed and took it to the wire ball for lunch, dicovered it didn't taste like rabbit and then split. My second guess was that it was the victim of one bad-assified Loggerhead Shrike!?!?
Any other theories?
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 21, 2004, 09:10 PM:
A lot of places I frequent, a bundle of barbed wire is used to drag roads, same as old tires.
Then they check every so often, for the sneaker tracks.
The ermine? Who knows?
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on November 22, 2004, 10:56 AM:
Best guess-- Owls eat the head off first.
8-6-4-2. Danny do you see a pattern?
Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on November 22, 2004, 12:22 PM:
A weasel is too large a prey for a shrike.
Posted by Norm (Member # 240) on November 22, 2004, 12:24 PM:
Some type of bird of prey seems to fit the depiction... an owl would be a good fit...
Momma probably went to San Diego to make sure the pattern was broken...
Posted by Alaskan Yoter (Member # 169) on November 22, 2004, 02:12 PM:
Rich according to my calculations Momma should have one in the oven ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Barndog (Member # 255) on November 22, 2004, 04:12 PM:
The little guy climbed up there to look for some lunch when some coyote hunter decided to see if his scope was still true. I know I would have.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 22, 2004, 09:38 PM:
That is kinda what happened, one night up in your area, barndog.
We were somewhere south of Carlin when we were making a stand and caught a set of eyes way out there. The weird thing was it appeared to be standing on the hood of an old abandoned car. Real bright eyes, way out there.
I was on the light and my buddy was eyeballing it. I asked him what it was and he said he didn't know, but he was going to find out. (not really, we never are iresponsible taking a shot at something unknown)
But, anyway, he could see it well enough to know it wasn't someone's dog or cat. So, just for curiosity, he took his litter head off with the big gun.
And, that's what it was. A (mostly) white ermine. Looked like a damned hood ornament.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on November 23, 2004, 08:33 AM:
"A weasel is too large a prey for a shrike." by NASA
The shrike thing was another failed attempt of Dummy Danny's at internet humor I guess. LOL ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
But you gotta admit, it would truly have to be a pretty bad-assified one if it could!!!!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 23, 2004, 09:38 AM:
quote:
My second guess was that it was the victim of one bad-assified Loggerhead Shrike!?!?
See why you should always add the "lol" after attempting humor? lol
...owl is still a good guess.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on November 23, 2004, 03:03 PM:
Just because a weasel can take out a critter 5 times its own size doesn't mean I'd think a little sparrowish sized bird could. lol
Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on December 04, 2004, 10:21 AM:
Sorry to drag up an old dead topic...I just got around to skinning the weasel. I found a bunch of little round holes in the pelt and few pieces of lead. The mystery is no more. Some knuckle-head checked out his kill then hung it on a wire ball to show off. LOL
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