Hard working Clean-up Lady

[Bearcarver]

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I figured some of you would enjoy this:

Here's the easy way to clean up under the bird feeders.

This Lady comes by just about every day, and cleans up much of the bird seed that gets spilled from my feeders.
She digs & scratches & pecks away for sometimes more than an hour before strutting away.
Probably has a nest real close.


There she is right under the feeders:



Alright, Don't just stand there-------Get to work girl !!!!



That's it---Pick up them seeds!!!



And---Don't miss any seeds that blew under the deck!!!!!

 

[chef jimmyj]

Start throwing seed on the ground and she will be a perfect size by Thanksgiving! Gooble Gooble...JJ

 

[smokinhusker]

Nice! I used to love to watch them when I lived in PA. Now in CO, I hunt them!

 

[dirtsailor2003]

When I was living on the Big Island we had a flock of 8 that lived near our job site. They would visit everyday around lunch. Fun to watch!

 

[Bearcarver]

Start throwing seed on the ground and she will be a perfect size by Thanksgiving! Gooble Gooble...JJ

Yup---You don't see them during the hunting seasons, but my Son goes back in the woods & calls them in, and shoots one with his bow now & then.

The only part that is any good is the Breast.

Bear

 

[Bearcarver]

Nice! I used to love to watch them when I lived in PA. Now in CO, I hunt them!

Thanks Alesia !!

Now tell me why you only watched them in PA------Weren't you old enough to hunt at the time?

Bear

 

[smokinhusker]

Nice! I used to love to watch them when I lived in PA. Now in CO, I hunt them!

Thanks Alesia !!

Now tell me why you only watched them in PA------Weren't you old enough to hunt at the time?

Bear

I lived in the Burgh...no hunting allowed there! And the ex didn't like to turkey hunt and fall turkey here I can use a rifle or muzzle loader...never shot a shotgun ever in my life!

 

[pineywoods]

Nice I like seeing them the ones around our place disappeared for awhile but I'm starting to see a few. I don't hunt them but enjoy seeing them and it's cool yours get that close

 

[disco]

Great shots, Bear. We are just starting to get Turkeys here a few years ago. They don't get this high up the mountain though. 

Disco

 

[webowabo]

Kinda off the subject. .. but close.. I live in the city. . Or burbs of big city.. still.. we dont see yards like that much less big ol birds like that... but in arlington tx.. dead middle of DFW metroplex.. there is a small neighborhood that has like 30 "wild? Haha" peacocks running around. .. and they are protected under city laws to kill cause they were there before the houses were built.. and they walk and "strut" proudly. Its kinda crazy... driving down a street and theres a peacock male all "bloomed" out in the middle of the street.. not my normal thing to see on a street in arlington tx..

 

[Bearcarver]

When I was living on the Big Island we had a flock of 8 that lived near our job site. They would visit everyday around lunch. Fun to watch!

Big Island ??  Hawaii??

So far the most I saw at one time was a few days after I came home from the Hospital, 32 Turkeys came to welcome me home. They were in the front yard, about 10' from my front windows (25' from my TV watching recliner).

Bear

I lived in the Burgh...no hunting allowed there! And the ex didn't like to turkey hunt and fall turkey here I can use a rifle or muzzle loader...never shot a shotgun ever in my life!

I got it.

You're allowed to use a rifle in PA, but not in the cities. I used to use an over & under 22 cal over 20 gauge. My Son only uses Bow & Arrow.

Bear

 

[tucson bbq fan]

Nice looking lady - I also used to see big flocks in PA in my yard - just north of Pittsburgh (Wexford).  Around mating season, the males would get kind of crazy and attack our cars!  Picture driving down the driveway with a big old tom chasing the car and pecking at the tires and bumper...

By the way - what is all that green stuff on your yard?

 

[GaryHibbert]

Must be nice.  The only wild turkeys we see in our neck of the woods are on TV

 

[Bearcarver]

Nice I like seeing them the ones around our place disappeared for awhile but I'm starting to see a few. I don't hunt them but enjoy seeing them and it's cool yours get that close

It's even neater when there's 32 of them right outside the window. PA gave up on Pheasants, and went to Turkeys years ago, and they really took hold.

Bear

Great shots, Bear. We are just starting to get Turkeys here a few years ago. They don't get this high up the mountain though. 

Disco

Thanks Disco!!

Ai'rs probably too thin up there!!!

Bear

Kinda off the subject. .. but close.. I live in the city. . Or burbs of big city.. still.. we dont see yards like that much less big ol birds like that... but in arlington tx.. dead middle of DFW metroplex.. there is a small neighborhood that has like 30 "wild? Haha" peacocks running around. .. and they are protected under city laws to kill cause they were there before the houses were built.. and they walk and "strut" proudly. Its kinda crazy... driving down a street and theres a peacock male all "bloomed" out in the middle of the street.. not my normal thing to see on a street in arlington tx..

Sounds like the Neighborhood Mascot.

Somebody on the other side of our South Woods has a Peacock. Sometimes when we're outside, we can hear him calling.

Bear

 

[Bearcarver]

Nice looking lady - I also used to see big flocks in PA in my yard - just north of Pittsburgh (Wexford).  Around mating season, the males would get kind of crazy and attack our cars!  Picture driving down the driveway with a big old tom chasing the car and pecking at the tires and bumper...

By the way - what is all that green stuff on your yard?

LOL---I saw ducks and geese chase cars, but never Turkeys (so far).

That grass was pretty new when I took those pics. The whole yard is now like those few  feet around the deck (much darker & thicker green).

PITA----Gotta mow every 4 or 5 days!!!

Bear

 

[dirtsailor2003]

Big Island ??  Hawaii??

Yep when the Housing market crashed here in 2008, I was temporarily laid off for 6 months. So I rather than draw unemployment, I went to work in Hawaii as a project manager for a friends construction company! It really sucked and I wouldn't recommend it. The worst thing was walking a couple hundred feet from the job site after work everyday and having to take a swim in the ocean. 

 

[bkleinsmid]

Yup---You don't see them during the hunting seasons, but my Son goes back in the woods & calls them in, and shoots one with his bow now & then.

The only part that is any good is the Breast.

Bear

Bear........you're kill'n me. Legs and thighs are great...IF you slow smoke them by themselves. I cut the 1/4's off and brine them. Then into the smoker for about an hour........foil with a little apple juice......and back into the smoker for about 2 more hours until fall off the bone tender. The drumsticks are a PITA with all the little tendons to deal with but the thigh's make it all worth it.

Brad

 

[Bearcarver]

Must be nice.  The only wild turkeys we see in our neck of the woods are on TV

Yeah, but you must have some awesome fishing up there!!!

Bear

Yep when the Housing market crashed here in 2008, I was temporarily laid off for 6 months. So I rather than draw unemployment, I went to work in Hawaii as a project manager for a friends construction company! It really sucked and I wouldn't recommend it. The worst thing was walking a couple hundred feet from the job site after work everyday and having to take a swim in the ocean. 

Aww, Poor Sailor!!!

Actually I spent 54 weeks in Hawaii (after Vietnam), and I couldn't wait to get home to PA. I'll take mountains over beaches any day. Plus Oahu was too expensive on E-5 pay !!!

Bear

 

[Bearcarver]

Bear........you're kill'n me. Legs and thighs are great...IF you slow smoke them by themselves. I cut the 1/4's off and brine them. Then into the smoker for about an hour........foil with a little apple juice......and back into the smoker for about 2 more hours until fall off the bone tender. The drumsticks are a PITA with all the little tendons to deal with but the thigh's make it all worth it.

Brad

I never got to try the thighs, so you're probably right about them, but I gave up on finding meat between all the blades of tendons in the drum sticks. Somebody else must have been eating the thighs while I was fighting with the Drums.

Bear

 

[bkleinsmid]

I never got to try the thighs, so you're probably right about them, but I gave up on finding meat between all the blades of tendons in the drum sticks. Somebody else must have been eating the thighs while I was fighting with the Drums.

Bear

You are so right about those drums. Most of the time after I smoke them, I will throw the drums in with my left over chicken parts when I'm making stock. After I have boiled everything out of them, I will stain the stock and throw the bones out. Once the thighs have smoked until tender the meat will just fall off the bone and none of those little blades to deal with. I do the same with pheasant legs.

Brad