Is Winter Over Yet? – IOTW Report

Is Winter Over Yet?

Sunday, 20 March 2022, 8:00 Claudia Uncategorized 18

Images from:

1) SNS (The Flock) Down for a springtime snooze.
2) AnonTrooper (Honey Boo Boo) This is old girl (13), ready for the Kentucky winter.
3) Bobcat (Egret) Lizard hunter in Little Torch Key.
4) NAAC (Kilo)
5) NAAC (Logan)
6) Marco (Jameson) is enjoying the latest snowfall.

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18 Comments on Is Winter Over Yet?

  2. Good morning, Lady C. Always glad for our Sunday critter break.

    My girls have been literally cooped up for too long. The winter was rough, the coyotes hungry, and the risk of frostbitten chicken toes too great except for the occasional freak thaw which usually resulted in a raging creek bisecting my backyard. Here they are happy for a couple of 70 degree days so they could take a real dirt bath and a nice sideways snooze in the sunshine.

    First time I saw this I thought the ladies were having a seizure or something, but nope, just chicks doing what chicks do.

    And I was watching over the party with a stick.

    Coyotes not invited!

    No hawks, neither. You gotta look UP here too…

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  7. Glad you told us those were chickens, SNS.

    I come across dead things all the time and I was wondering if I was looking at some remains from a coyote meal. Seriously

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  10. Jethro
    MARCH 20, 2022 AT 8:55 AM
    @SNS
    “My Dad told me chickens do that to get rid of lice, etc.

    It’s not that your chickens have lice, but it is an instinctive habit they have.”

    …that’s what the vet said too. These girls were raised like sisters so they act like them and pull the feathers out of each other’s tails over dominance, but this makes ’em look kinda mangy. The wife got worried and took them to the vet, but neither the vet or us found any evidence of mites, just some prickly pullets.

    Just chickens doing what chickens do.

    Sometimes they are just feathery little bitches.

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  15. The trumpeter swans and Canada geese are back and I think I even heard a robin this morning (summer birds). The red polls and pine grossbeaks are gone (winter birds).

    Sure signs that spring is on its way, though we’re a good six weeks before the hummingbirds will arrive.

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  16. TRF
    MARCH 20, 2022 AT 8:45 AM
    “Is winter over yet?”

    …I can tell you with 100% certainty that yes, winter is definitely over.

    Know how I can be so sure?

    I just got the tire chains for my lawn tractor/erstwhile snowplow that I ordered in August.

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  17. Dadof4
    MARCH 20, 2022 AT 8:55 AM
    “Glad you told us those were chickens, SNS.

    I come across dead things all the time and I was wondering if I was looking at some remains from a coyote meal. Seriously”

    …you can blame the photographer for that. This is probably the best of a terrible series of pictures I subjected dear Claudia to, and that this was the best cropping anyone could have done with them.

    Part of the problem is that I did chase them under a tree on purpose. Makes it a LITTLE harder for the hawks and buzzards, anyway, since I can’t watch them and email Lady C at the same time…

    Xxxxs://i.ytimg.com/vi/WVlxs-gudtQ/maxresdefault.jpg

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