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Strange things while hunting.

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Chief RID:
You guys better have a prescription for that stuff!  ;)

BowEd:
Watched a great horned owl nail a hen pheasant once and many red tails catching rabbits and mice.Owls at night will swoop on past a person checking you out that's for sure.Sparrow hawks are fun to watch doing their thing.Watching those little falcons I call them streak through the woods after squirrels is fun to watch to while in the stand.A litter of coon in the tree above me climbing down past me to the ground was neat.A little darn chicadee once sat on my broadhead for quite sometime before I finally spooked him off.He cussed me out good from the tree next door.
As far as sounds in the woods especially at night hearing bobcats,coon,and beavers fighting carry pretty well through the valley when it's dead still out.Someone out there who does'nt realize what it is can have the hair on their neck raise.People around here have seen many a mountain lion and one was shot 4 miles from my place while dragging a deer through underneath a fence during a snowstorm.Personally I can't say I've seen one.My hounds never did actually get onto one either.Plenty of bobcats seen though.Love to get a good shot at one in the stand someday.
I remember the first time turkeys were chased from there roost while retrieving dogs.Seemed like the sky was falling with twigs falling underneath there.I thought those are some mighty big crows up there at first.
Mothers and fawns staying in touch with each other.Bucks grunting here and there.It's all good.Gets your blood going.Any kind of animal noises are cool to me.Go primitive it's the only way.

kinslayer1965:
Fell asleep while turkey hunting with my father once and a black snake slithered right up my pants leg. My father thought I was making some kind of attempt at communication but he was unable to understand what all my gyrations meant. He said the screaming seemed to be pure gibberish as well.

To this day I am not sure who was more scared...me or that black snake.

CR

H Rhodes:
I sat down with my back against a big root wad and leaned against the trunk of a fallen tree.  The other side of the root wad had a hole in the ground that was something's home.  I had sat there about fifteen minutes when something 'woofed' from under ground.  I decided to go sit somewhere else!  I guess that doesn't qualify as strange - I would woof at someone on my doorstep too. ;D

jayman448:
nothing like that but while fishing i witnessed the same bald eagle attack a crows nest, a hawks nest, and chase an owl across the lake. my uncle once while netting a fish had his fish attacked from below by a loon, only to have the loon attacked from above by an eagle. now both eagles were in the same bay of the same lake from the same nest only a few years apart.... i seem to think MR eagle has grown a taste for bird meat XD

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