Legionnaire
Contributing Member
Great "zombie" thread! I've not finished reading the whole thing yet, but will. In the interim, I'll add a couple:
1. Chickadee landed on the bill of my hat during archery season (full camo) and hung over the edge looking at my face trying to figure out what I was.
2. Also during archery season, a grey squirrel ran between my legs while I was standing on top of a stone wall. Had fox squirrel jump on my backpack that was on the ground at my feet just last week.
3. Saw a hawk (Redtail?) kill a squirrel right in front of my tree stand. My father-in-law had to throw up his hand to ward off a hawk that seems to have targeted his eye movement, again during archery season when he was wearing full camo (I didn't see this one).
4. Saw a grey squirrel fall out of a tree! He was 40 feet up or so on a cold, windy day. Jumped for a branch on another tree just as a gust blew the branch out of his reach. 40 feet is a long way to fall, even for a squirrel. He was dazed for a while, but eventually seemed to recover and stagger off on his merry way.
5. Set up too close to a turkey roost one Fall, and when I started calling, they came down all around me! A couple looked like they were going to run right into me before peeling off.
6. Scarriest: seeing some guy using his shotgun scope to check me out! I waved (vehemently) and he dropped the muzzle and gave an apologetic wave back. This was NOT during archery season, obviously, and I was wearing a blaze orange jacket. And this was on private land where I had permission to hunt, and the offender did not. Moron.
1. Chickadee landed on the bill of my hat during archery season (full camo) and hung over the edge looking at my face trying to figure out what I was.
2. Also during archery season, a grey squirrel ran between my legs while I was standing on top of a stone wall. Had fox squirrel jump on my backpack that was on the ground at my feet just last week.
3. Saw a hawk (Redtail?) kill a squirrel right in front of my tree stand. My father-in-law had to throw up his hand to ward off a hawk that seems to have targeted his eye movement, again during archery season when he was wearing full camo (I didn't see this one).
4. Saw a grey squirrel fall out of a tree! He was 40 feet up or so on a cold, windy day. Jumped for a branch on another tree just as a gust blew the branch out of his reach. 40 feet is a long way to fall, even for a squirrel. He was dazed for a while, but eventually seemed to recover and stagger off on his merry way.
5. Set up too close to a turkey roost one Fall, and when I started calling, they came down all around me! A couple looked like they were going to run right into me before peeling off.
6. Scarriest: seeing some guy using his shotgun scope to check me out! I waved (vehemently) and he dropped the muzzle and gave an apologetic wave back. This was NOT during archery season, obviously, and I was wearing a blaze orange jacket. And this was on private land where I had permission to hunt, and the offender did not. Moron.