never give up hope!!!
Tails of nature
- Thread starter flying frog
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frodo
ArboristSite Operative
:fart:poor kitty
pbtree
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One wasp nest, which was not noticed until aloft.
Several squirrels
Several birds
No flying opossums as of this date! :jester:
Several squirrels
Several birds
No flying opossums as of this date! :jester:
brookpederson
Prairie Lumberjack
Bats
I'm suprized nobody has any bat stories, Their seems to be bats in every hollow boxelder or basswood we de-verticalize. And they don't seem to want to fly during the day, so we have to put some gloves on and hang'em in best spots we find.
I'm suprized nobody has any bat stories, Their seems to be bats in every hollow boxelder or basswood we de-verticalize. And they don't seem to want to fly during the day, so we have to put some gloves on and hang'em in best spots we find.
treeman82
Addicted to ArboristSite
Well, last week I personally evicted at least 1 squirrel. Hollow branch over some service drops and a driveway... bombed the tip out and the squirrel ran away like a little grey blur, so I guess it was fine.
A few years ago I was working with a friend taking down a rotten black birch. Got the tree down no problems, but when my friend was going to cut the stump lower we found a baby squirrel in there trying to get out. The home owner wanted us to kill it with the chainsaw, but we re-located it someplace else on the property. Same thing happened about a year ago on one of my jobs... taking down a rotten sugar maple at a friend's house. Cutting the stump lower I see some movement in the rotten part. I called my friend over and she rescued a little baby field mouse out of there... she tried to nurse it back to health in order to release it into the wild.
Stuff happens, and sometimes it can't be avoided. However if there's a chance to save another creature's life, particularly a baby creature... I think we owe it to that animal to give it a helping hand... I mean we're the ones who are taking away their homes. Not like they are driving up to ours in bulldozers, or selling us adjustable rate mortgages.
A few years ago I was working with a friend taking down a rotten black birch. Got the tree down no problems, but when my friend was going to cut the stump lower we found a baby squirrel in there trying to get out. The home owner wanted us to kill it with the chainsaw, but we re-located it someplace else on the property. Same thing happened about a year ago on one of my jobs... taking down a rotten sugar maple at a friend's house. Cutting the stump lower I see some movement in the rotten part. I called my friend over and she rescued a little baby field mouse out of there... she tried to nurse it back to health in order to release it into the wild.
Stuff happens, and sometimes it can't be avoided. However if there's a chance to save another creature's life, particularly a baby creature... I think we owe it to that animal to give it a helping hand... I mean we're the ones who are taking away their homes. Not like they are driving up to ours in bulldozers, or selling us adjustable rate mortgages.
corndogg
ArboristSite Operative
Watched a large racoon come out of a tree onto my coworker's back as he felled it. He bolted and wouldn't finish cutting the tree! Another friend of mine got between a squirrel on the ground and the tree, the squirrel first climbed him and jumped into the tree. He's still afraid of squirrrels. Old coworkers told me before I was around that one of them cut into a racoon which then crawled out onto the yard for all the family to see!! They said they had to grab a shovel and get rid of him while the kids freaked out!
