Members' Important Animals

[caysa]

Wow, Cool pics!! Thanks Knallfroesch
Tell us a bit more about them - how do you get so close to them??

[Knallfroesch]

Nice"little" boars You must be proud to have them :peek:
Do you have some shelter there where you watch them?

Wildlife animals are ownerless, but if they are in my region, I feel it as they belong to me.
Im proud if my wildcams take good videos or pictures, or if I see them myself in wildlife.
For watching them are some little cabins.

[Knallfroesch]

Wow, Cool pics!! Thanks Knallfroesch
Tell us a bit more about them - how do you get so close to them??

I would be very very proud - if I could take the pictures by myself - but this work did a wildcam.

[caysa]

Oh that is very nice!
I wish I would understand more about the technology so I could set up a camera too!

[Knallfroesch]

Oh that is very nice!
I wish I would understand more about the technology so I could set up a camera too!

My english is to bad for explaining the technology - but I`ll try with a few of words ...

The cam registers movement or / and warmness. So if something appears - you can take one or three pictures - or a video. You have the option to tell the cam, to do that all 5 minutes if something happens - or 10 or 15 or 30 or 60 minutes.
Similar the speed - cam ... maybe you got catched sometimes?

[Knallfroesch]

Really yours??? Or the ones you saw at your cams in the woods???
Anyway, very nice pictures, Knallfroesch!!

Sorry, I added an explanation only to another post

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[caysa]

"Our magpie - Pica Pica"

This happend a few years ago. One rainy, stormy day my daughter found a magpie baby that had fallen out of the nest. The nest was destroyd and no parents were around anymore. This little bird did not even have feathers yet, just some down and it was very wet and weak. My daughter is a veterinarian so she took the bird inside and gave it some medication and kept it warm. Then she called me and told me that she has a baby for me. OK..... I didn't think it would survive but I would sure try! We made a nest in a box and fed it with cat food and water. In a few hours it already opened its bright beak whenever ít hear me come. Soon it got feathers and started to move around. We now put it in a big dog crate with branches to sit on. Slowly it started to use it wings and I took it outside every day so it could learn how to fly. I thought that one day it will be gone.
But i was SO WRONG
It did NOT want to leave - at all!
It flew around the garden and took baths in the dogs' water bowl when the days were warm. Every night it wanted to come inside into its own cage. And it got aquainted with the dogs and cats and loved beeing with them and tease them.
It sat on our shoulders and when we went for walks in the woods with the dogs it followed us - flying from tree to tree.
It also developed a taste for beer!!! My husband could never have his beer alone!
The first summer was like this - and the winter too. The next spring when Pica Pica was about 1 year old it started to do"bad things" It stole everything!!! And was so very quick too! I am a smoker ( ) and you have no idea how many cigarrets it stole from my mouth!! It just flew by and took it!! Then it peeled everything away and played with the filter
We wanted it to stay outside during the night also - but no way!! It flew inside through the door when we let the dogs in! We couldn't stop it. Finally we got it to sleep in the bathroom - it sat on the shower pole. There it was pretty easy to clean up after it.
Later on, in the autumn I noticed that there often was broken eggs in the coop. I had no idea why until I saw Pica Pica sitting on the top of the coop - listening to the hens. They make a special sound when they have layed an egg... When they are ready they come outside again, through their own little door. Now it was time for PicaPica.... It just walked in through the hen door and hopped into the nest and picked the egg and ate it!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
When I tried to get it away from the coop it started to get angry and in a few weeks it had become really aggressive . We tried everything we could to get the situation solved but as we had the grandchildren on their way we couldn't take any risks. I called a bird specialist and aksed him if we perhaps could take him into a wood further away and release it there. He said that the bird would find its way either back to us or somewhere else aming humans - and the trouble would go on. So we ended up haveing him put down, humanly.... Sad... Very sad.
Still, the 1½ year we had with Pica Pica was a really special and funny time!

I will add pics in following posts.

[robin]

Caysa, your story is soul-stirring , it reminds me if I was a little girl and raised a little Siskin, and she lived with us 2 years, but one day she got away from window, we couldn find her anymore in big city. When we was in the country at summers, she flew sleeping at night in her cage, at mostly she was flying free, only slept and ate in her cage. She followed us also everywhere we went...Only trouble she did, she riped the books

You must be missing your Pica pica?

[AllyKass]

caysa, it was very interesting and sad story...

[caysa]

Here is Pica Pica after a bath in the water bowl

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The dogs watch Pica Pica wondering why it is so wet!

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[caysa]

A few pics of young Pica Pica

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pica puussa.jpg

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[caysa]

Pica Pica having beer with my husband

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and cleaning a shoe

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[caysa]

Pica Pica teasing one of our friends

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[caysa]

Pia Pica and a cat

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and with a labrador

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pica ja saima 2.jpg

[robin]

I love your pictures

[caysa]

Thanks!!
Here is pica with one of our corgies

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[caysa]

And the last 2 pics

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This is my favorite pic

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[robin]

And the last 2 pics

pica lizzu 4.jpg

This is my favorite pic

pica lizzu 5.jpg

Super... I dont have words anymore

[caysa]

Super... I dont have words anymore

Thanks!!
Glad that you liked the pics

[AllyKass]

caysa, great pics
you was wonderful life with pica too, seems it was talking with all of you