In mid bow season I was sitting in my stand and a bird came a landed on my bow while I was holding it. It just sat and stared but I guess it didnt know I was there. Then it flew to a branch and I noticed it had something in its mouth. It dropped it, and as the piece was falling the bird flew down and caught it in mid-air.

Once while I was squirrel hunting I was sitting on a hill under a hedge apple tree and a walnut tree. I heard this noise like something was rolling down the hill so I didnt really pay attention to it. About 2 seconds later a deer jumped over my head and ran down the hill. It was really cool.

I watched 5 rabbits run back and forth from the corn field to the woods for about 10 min. They would then run the other way from my tree.

I have had to 2 screech owls land 5 ft. away from me in the same tree. I have had a red tail hawk land right above my head ( big bird). I also had a fox which I bleated at run up to the base of my tree, put its paws up on the trunk and looked up at me trying to figure out what was going on. Then he took off when he figured it out

Shane

I sat watching rabbits roughly 20yds away through my bino's , when a fox jumped frow cover 10yds away and grabbed a young bunny . Realtree hardwoods green really did work that day , its great just to watch the wildlife sometimes .

Last yearI saw alot of neat things.In PaI saw 6 bucks in one day (a first), ironicly, not one doe. I killed one of those bucks and have a trail cam pic of him as well.In Alberta last season I saw my biggest buck ever at 19yrds, a thick 10ptbut no clear shot. Rattled in my first bucks, no shot opps![:@]And I watcheda decent8ptcoming my way, stop and paw out a bed in the snow. He layed there for only 10mins or so, then walked into the path of my Muzzy at 20yrds, ran 60yrds and saw himdrop. It was awesome!

This just happened a week ago last saturday to some friends of mine......I went out with themto do some target practicing with our rifles.After we finished lining up our guns we did some ATV riding and I left to go back home.They went out fishing in a small boat on the large Lakethere and suddenly they heard something crashing through the woods towards them and the Lake,suddenly a big Buck runs into the Lake and starts swimming across it and about 6 feet pass them while they were in the boat,it's mouth was open and panting heavy from running,it was a nice big 8-Point Buck in full velvet.When it reached the bank it tripped a few times then ran through the edge of the woods along the Lake and dissapeared in the taller timber.Their Wife's were fishing on the bank the same time when the Buck came running through and said it looked like a Coyote or Bobcat was chasing the Deer and stopped in the tall brush and retreated back into the woods after the Buck ran into the water.



Oh yeah,Ground Hogs can climb tree's.....we used to go hunting in the woods behindour house when we were kids and hunt ground hogs in the sink holes and 1 day there was a small tree that leaned outward from one of the sink holes and a ground hog climbed up it about 6 feet and was resting in between the forks,I shot at it but missed and he ran down inside his burrow on the side of the sink hole. [:@]

We shot a rabbit out of a tree last fall. The tree was hollow so he climbed up through the inside of the trunk.

For a couple months toward the end of 2003, when back in Kuwait, my unit was tasked with pulling security for an ammo dump. During the overnight shift, you could always count on these little ghostly white desert foxes, maybe a little bigger than a Chiuawwa (SP?) coming out looking for scraps. They would come is some quite and ghostly and pick up scrap. It was fun trying to feed them from a guard tower without them getting spooked.
Other interesting critter stuff was watching soldiers in Germany, 1990-1991, during gunnery in Graffenwere and manuevere training in Hoffenfeles run from momma borehogs when babies were around and the solider just could not wait to crap and had to get on ground. Trust me, these mommas were mean adn quick, and about 2 bills or so!

are you sure that wasn't a groundhog?[8D]

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By far the coolest thing I have ever seen in the woods was when I was archery hunting several years ago. I was set up on the edge of a wood line with a golden rod field to my right and a pond in front of me. I was watching ducks in the pond when I saw two fox come out and work the edge of the pond looking for food. This went on for awhile when all heck broke out and the fox both took off, thats when a large coyote ran out of the woods chassing them. They ran into some brush and after a few minutes and sound skin crawling screams the coyote came out of the brush with his prize fox in his mouth. I slowly stood up and tried drawing my bow back on him at about 20 yards but he instantly picked me off and high tailed it out of there with his diner.

I have seen squirrels fall out of trees and that always provides for some good laughs.

Another priceless moment was when I just started archery hunting, I was probablly 14 years old and my best friend and I were set-up about 80 yards apart from each other in a major funnel. As it just got light enough that I could make him out in his tree a screech owl let out near him, well apparently it had landed just feet from him and he had fallen asleep. He almost fell out of the tree when that owl screamed just a few feet from him.

I've seen lots of bucks fighting and I've seen a buck breed a doe. One of the coolest things was watching the 12 point I shot come in to me after my grunt snort wheeze. Too say he was ticked off would be an understatement. The whole time he is comming in to me he was violently smashing his antlers into every piece of brush while grunting and snort wheezing. His ears were laid back and his hair was standing straight up.

And then there was this time that I saw a 20 point buck with double 12" drops get chased around by a black panther