My Wildcat (?) or some kind of animal photo - Page 2

WelshWitchPMD · #16 02-16-2005, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

You? Are the bomb.

And, Pattie, I know everyone is saying that just looks like a big housecat, but it looks stranger than that to me. Did you get a sense of it's size? Cause it looks really big to me. Also it looks like it has a strange face/body shape.

Yes, Amber it was larger and as a matter of fact I ran like the Dickens when I saw it. Even my friend who was with me thought that it did not look like a normal cat. That photo does not do it justice. I wish that I got that photo of it looking right into my lens. Darn automatic camera. Now I know why they have manual settings I just don't know how to work it yet.

amber · #17 02-16-2005, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Sugar

Hey thanks Amber and Pattie! I'm lucky since the shelter is only about 1/2 hour away...and besides...what else was I going to do...let a freakin' BLUE HERON die in my yard???

His wing was really mangled and even when I went to capture him he was so weak he didn't put up much of a fight. Very sad.

And this ain't the country or anything (I live in an immediate suburb of Philadelphia), but my husband has made a habit out of photographing all the local wildlife that finds its way into our yard. We have photos of opossums, racoons, skunks, and even a wild turkey! We live on a street that dead ends at a creek, and there's deer down there. My husband always finds baby snakes and frogs in the yard too!

Maybe I'll post some more local wildlife photos if I feel like re-sizing them...

Were they able to rehabilitate the heron? Just curious. I think lots of kinds of herons are endangered, or something, due to loss of wetlands/habitat. But, hey, what isn't endangered nowadays?

I would enjoy seeing more photos.

amber · #18 02-16-2005, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

Yes, Amber it was larger and as a matter of fact I ran like the Dickens when I saw it. Even my friend who was with me thought that it did not look like a normal cat. That photo does not do it justice. I wish that I got that photo of it looking right into my lens. Darn automatic camera. Now I know why they have manual settings I just don't know how to work it yet.

Maybe a Main Coon mated with a bobcat? It looks really weird, though, like some kind of bear/raccoon/cat. Obviously, I know that's not possible, but I'm just saying...something strange seems to be going on! Oooo, mysteries of nature, I love it!

Sugar · #19 02-16-2005, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Were they able to rehabilitate the heron? Just curious. I think lots of kinds of herons are endangered, or something, due to loss of wetlands/habitat. But, hey, what isn't endangered nowadays?

I would enjoy seeing more photos.

I never called to find out about the heron. I didn't have the heart since they told me when I dropped it off that things didn't look good for it. Not only was his wing mangled but twisted around its break like three times

. On the ride, too, I'm giving him a pep talk the whole way because he was SO listless, I thought he was going to die right there. "Don't die in my car, Mr. Heron, we don't have far to go now..." I am glad I did it though!

I work on some photos!

WelshWitchPMD · #20 02-16-2005, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Maybe a Main Coon mated with a bobcat? It looks really weird, though, like some kind of bear/raccoon/cat. Obviously, I know that's not possible, but I'm just saying...something strange seems to be going on! Oooo, mysteries of nature, I love it!

Maybe it's an alien cat.

amber · #21 02-16-2005, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

Maybe it's an alien cat.

You gotta see that thing again, Pattie!

Stake out the shore on a nightly basis!

I have to believe that if you ran from it, it must have been even way bigger than i've ever seen even the most giant housecat be.

Sesly...

amber · #22 02-16-2005, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Sugar

I never called to find out about the heron. I didn't have the heart since they told me when I dropped it off that things didn't look good for it. Not only was his wing mangled but twisted around its break like three times

. On the ride, too, I'm giving him a pep talk the whole way because he was SO listless, I thought he was going to die right there. "Don't die in my car, Mr. Heron, we don't have far to go now..." I am glad I did it though!

I work on some photos!

Oh....*sad* .... I forgot if you take it to a shelter you don't know what happened. In my head I was thinking you took it to a vet, paid the bill, etc.

poor thing...

At least you knew it, once.

We used to live in a shack by a pond, and there was a heron that was always there (it was a really small pond, too!) and my mom always made a big deal that it was there. Now I know why. That was pretty cool.

Sugar · #23 02-16-2005, 08:50 PM

Groundhogs...please excuse the yard detritis...

Sugar · #24 02-16-2005, 08:54 PM

...opposums and skunks...hangin' together...

Sugar · #25 02-16-2005, 08:55 PM

...three fat racoons...looks like a mom and two babies...

amber · #26 02-16-2005, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Sugar

Groundhogs...please excuse the yard detritis...

Hey, pretty cool! I don't think i've ever seen one, live.

We get lots of possums and 'coons. The best animal thing I ever saw was when I was walking down my parents road near dusk, and I suddenly got this prickly scared feeling. (There was a mountain lion attack before on my parents road)
so, then, I look up the hill from the road, and there was this weird coyote/wolf/mottled looking thing.(it didn't look like a dog, coyote, or wolf

more like some weird mix) then, I look down the hill in the woods, and there was a deer. So of course, I'm thinking "why is the coyote ahead of the deer?" And then my hypothesis was that they had both smelled a mountain lion a 'comin, and were running for it!