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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: nwwanderer on October 01, 2020, 04:23:32 PM

Title: perpetual motion machine
Post by: nwwanderer on October 01, 2020, 04:23:32 PM: Tiny bit of white showing
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Post by: Bango skank on October 01, 2020, 04:37:13 PM: I love sitting in a treestand watching those little dudes hunt. Seems to be a surplus of them around here. I was laying on a rocky outcrop several years ago during late arch elk, almost drifting off, and an ermine came loping by a few feet from my face, was pretty cool
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Post by: KFhunter on October 01, 2020, 05:02:45 PM: My barn cat has been putting a hurting on them, found 3-4 of them dead now, but she won't eat them.
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Post by: Bango skank on October 01, 2020, 05:12:53 PM: Found a dead one in my barn too.
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Post by: Magnum_Willys on October 01, 2020, 05:46:12 PM: Ermine are cute lil critters - unless you are a chicken farmer.....

Kinda like an oscar meyer fur bearer
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Post by: Humptulips on October 01, 2020, 06:34:26 PM: I read the title and I thought you were referring to me trying to shoot offhand.
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Post by: Hilltop123 on October 01, 2020, 07:04:03 PM: Quote from: KFhunter on October 01, 2020, 05:02:45 PM
My barn cat has been putting a hurting on them, found 3-4 of them dead now, but she won't eat them.
Ya our cats keep them in check around here and like your cat, our cats wont eat them either.
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Post by: Norman89 on October 02, 2020, 01:09:42 AM: Quote from: Humptulips on October 01, 2020, 06:34:26 PM
I read the title and I thought you were referring to me trying to shoot offhand.
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Post by: nwwanderer on October 02, 2020, 07:12:46 AM: Blurred and unsteady, lucky I saw the little wonder. As it eats a third of its weight each day, mostly rodents, a few around sure helps the pest scourge.
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Post by: hal on October 02, 2020, 11:33:51 AM: we had pack rat and ground squirrel problems until one came around. No more problem
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Post by: lokidog on October 02, 2020, 01:14:08 PM: Quote from: Hilltop123 on October 01, 2020, 07:04:03 PM
Quote from: KFhunter on October 01, 2020, 05:02:45 PM
My barn cat has been putting a hurting on them, found 3-4 of them dead now, but she won't eat them.
Ya our cats keep them in check around here and like your cat, our cats wont eat them either.

Well, that's one of the few good uses for a non house cat anyways.... :chuckle:
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Post by: huntnphool on October 02, 2020, 02:16:36 PM: I remember several stoat around my grandparents farm when I was a kid, they were fun to watch.