A special needs duck. Even the animals know to take care of those in need. They don’t rush – they seem to know the drill.
@myprideandducksI didn’t realise until watching the video back later that they placed Cleo in between them when they were walking home, even though she walks so much slower than them! I love ducks!♬ original sound – My Pride and Ducks
Stevens hightailed it back the his truck to grab a hoodie that he hoped would protect him from the swarming pests, but as he hiked back, he noticed a Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks employee eyeing him from a distance. It was a biologist working in the area who’d been observing Stevens’ hunt from afar. From his vantage, he could see a large grizzly bear stalking in on the hunter and his kill.
“I walked out to where my car was parked and he drove down there and he said, ‘Do you know you have a grizzly stalking you?’,” Stevens says. “I was just shocked.” The biologist told Stevens that another group of hunters had been watching as well, and they’d alerted FWP because they were concerned for his safety.
“They said that as soon as I shot that deer, the grizzly picked up his head. He must have smelled it immediately,” he recalls. “It started coming straight on a line for me. I was really lucky that I got out of there when I did.”
Stevens had left his bear spray at home that evening. He had a handgun, but it was just a 9mm. “I’ve become so comfortable with that area and have been hunting it so often,” he says. “I didn’t wanna carry my big .45 around with me because I didn’t think I’d really need it. In hindsight, I should have thought that through a little better.”
I don’t mind carrying around my .45.
Bird shot just isn’t sufficient for bears. I have no explanation for how you would avoid a situation like this. Bird shot is certainly a second or third or fourth choice. Reaching a large bore handgun would be my first choice, but this attack was from close range. Actually, my first choice would have been 00 buck, but you don’t hunt upland birds with 00 buck shot.
Earlier this week, a man was hunting upland birds along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front when a grizzly bear charged him from roughly 15 feet away. According to a press release issued by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP), the bird hunter escaped the harrowing encounter without injury after firing his shotgun multiple times, injuring the bear and causing it to flee the immediate area.
I just don’t think I’d get into a pet skunk. WiscoDave is pretty oddball with his pet pigs, but I don’t even think he would like this.
They’re lucky that sow didn’t claw their eyes out and then rip their hearts out and eat it in front of the cubs as an object lesson.
I await comment by “The Alaskan.”
Three guys springing towards a bear and two cubs; one with some papers and one carrying a child. What exactly was the plan here? pic.twitter.com/VgDmR68CrS
I’ve immensely enjoyed watching the Osprey family in Boulder, Colorado, for the season. I saw the chicks when they hatched, watched them fledge, and watched them learn to fish for themselves, all in a single season. And now they’ve migrated, all individually. You might have seen images or video of the mother protecting her eggs in a hail storm.
Here are some other images.
Chick #3 hatched last, and had to fight for every morsel of food. Every now and again when I saw dad bring in a fish and hand it off to mom, I’d scream at #3 to go get some. This made for an interesting lunch break for me. But he did learn to fight for himself, and was a big as the rest when he fledged and then eventually left the nest to migrate. He was also first to learn to fish for himself.
And finally, one of dad himself, the big boy, the feeder and protector of the family. He did have to chase away interlopers.
All the chicks lived, fledged, and presumably they all learned to fish. I’ll see mom and dad again next year. They mate for life and nest in the same location every year (after running off the squatters).
I may have shared this before, but it’s always a good watch when I stumble upon it. From the comments: “The honey badger popping up after getting free from its coils and then going after it was probably the most gangster thing I’ve ever seen in the animal kingdom.”
1 year, 6 months ago
