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[Mom2Dogs]

@SportyShorty07   We never found out what took the head of the bird off...it really was disgusting....and what would have gotten up in the light fixture to attack the bird?

[colliemom4]

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@SportyShorty07 wrote:

@colliemom4 Wow- snakes are everywhere! Were the horses afraid of the rattlesnakes? Rattle snakes are ugly and scary- I've never seen one in person, but the youtube videos are enough to creep me out .  That's really cool that your daughter took horseback riding lessons- did she wear the equestrian boots and the blazers that people wear in the movies? 

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@SportyShorty07   I've seen lots of snakes through out my lifetime and continue to see them sometimes when it's hot. The only time I've seen the rattle snakes was at the place where my daughter rode horses. The horses didn't seem afraid. My daughter wore riding boots and jeans but took different types of riding lessons. One of her friends has horses and they still ride them sometimes.

[SportyShorty07]

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@Mom2Dogs wrote:

@SportyShorty07   We never found out what took the head of the bird off...it really was disgusting....and what would have gotten up in the light fixture to attack the bird?

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@Mom2Dogs  Its a real mystery- I wonder how the bird lost it's head and ended up in the light fixture? It couldn't fly without a head- or could it? It doesn't seem like someone would do that to the bird and throw it into the light fixture. I'm stumped on how that could happen. Maybe it was attacked by a crow- crows can be really mean.  There was a poor squirrel that was beheaded by crows in our backyard.  I had animal control take the  squirrel away and I bought a little felt squirrel stuffed animal to put on the mantel in memory of the little squirrel. 

[SportyShorty07]

@colliemom4  Interesting! Snakes seem to vary in species in different locations. Horses are such strong and gentle creatures- I think its great for people to learn how to ride horses. Horses have such great hair and I like the clip clop sounds that their hooves make. I've never had the opportunity to ride a horse, but when I was a kid I would get to  pet ponies at county fairs! 

[Pezzie]

@Mz iMac you are 100% correct.

[spumoni99]

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@ECBG wrote:

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@cheriere wrote:

@Pezzie 

Yuck!  I hate for anything to die, but in the case of a rattlesnake I'd be glad.  
Last summer, we had a similar situation except it turned out to be a large black snake.  I noticed it in the front yard under a tree.  This is gross too, but it had actually laid an egg.  I didn't even know they laid eggs.

I took a few pictures too.

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@cheriere 

Black snakes keep rodents and poisonous snakes away.

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We live in an area with rattlesnakes and your right, when we see a different type of snake we are thankful because it will keep the rattlesnakes away.  I have killed a few rattlers.

[River Song]

Everybody's gotta eat.  Including the hawks that hunt mourning doves and blue jays at my bird feeder.  I often find a pouf of feathers left in my yard.  About a month ago, I watched a hawk eat a mourning dove (still alive) under the bushes near my bird feeder.  The hawk was standing on top of it and taking bites out of it until it died.  All that was left was a pile of feathers.  Such is the cycle of life out in the wild.

Although there are coyotes around, I've never seen them in my neighborhood.  But, I've noticed that the population of raccoons has really dropped in the past year.

I've seen black snakes and red rat snakes in my yard and I'm hoping they are eating the palm rats (aka roof rats) and mice in my woods.  Along with the owls.

[Puggywuggy]

Ick! Today must be the day for finding carnage in the yard because I found a poor deceased baby bird when taking the dogs out in the yard at noon... unfortunately, I had just eaten 😭

[monicakm]

Ah, Mother Nature's Food Chain at work.  

[Still Raining]

Hawks gotta do what hawks gotta do.

Sunday I watched a pair glide around over an empty steer pasture for a while.  Hope they kill some mice!