Ever been fooled??

I saw this hawk sitting on a dead tree, stopped and took a couple of photos, then pulled on up, wondering why it didn't fly. Second picture is a side view of the "hawk".

Oh, yes.....you got fooled thinking a broken branch was a bird.

I got fooled thinking this was a log across the trail. This trail is long and straight and goes through a heavy canopy. As I was coming toward this I was thinking that a tree had fallen. I got closer and realized that i was mistaken.

This guy was perched on a rock on the side of the road late one night when driving up to our house on Montserrat
Didn’t think anything of it, see these and crabs and turtles and iguanas every now and then (and goats and donkeys and wild pigs etc)
Next morning he was still there, and I thought it was odd
Wasn’t until we saw him 3 days in a row that we decided to investigate. Just a shell. Completely hollow.

I confess to having shot a few stumps with a 20 gauge during my Ruffed Grouse hunting years.

saea501 wrote in post #18951747
Oh, yes.....you got fooled thinking a broken branch was a bird.

I got fooled thinking this was a log across the trail. This trail is long and straight and goes through a heavy canopy. As I was coming toward this I was thinking that a tree had fallen. I got closer and realized that i was mistaken.

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That could have been an unfortunate mistake! Great photo.

SMP_Homer wrote in post #18951797
This guy was perched on a rock on the side of the road late one night when driving up to our house on Montserrat
Didn’t think anything of it, see these and crabs and turtles and iguanas every now and then (and goats and donkeys and wild pigs etc)
Next morning he was still there, and I thought it was odd
Wasn’t until we saw him 3 days in a row that we decided to investigate. Just a shell. Completely hollow.

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Is that one of those Coconut Crabs? Anything that can crack open a coconut, I'm keeping a respectable distance.

CDMOOSE wrote in post #18952147
I confess to having shot a few stumps with a 20 gauge during my Ruffed Grouse hunting years.

The best way to get the woods to yourself is tell everyone you see, "I've gotten some good sound shots, but haven't hit anything yet!"

Things in the woods can fool you. I've seen a lot of deer that after the light changes a bit turned out to be fallen logs, or a small bush. Fortunately I have never shot at one of them.

Strangest thing I've ever seen happened as I was walking up a faint trail on a ridge line. At the top of the mountain was a small clearing, about the size of the average living room in a house. On one side was a fallen log, and a person in full camo (gun season in Oklahoma, blaze orange clothing is required) sitting on the log, back to me. I didn't want to disturb him, so I quietly walked past, all the time wondering "how stupid could a person be, SE Oklahoma deer season and him wearing camo?" Anyway, as I got to the other side of the clearing I looked back, nothing there. Now I'm really curious, so I go to the log, no footprints, no sign that a person had ever been there. I go back to where I first saw him, nothing there. I don't really believe in haints, but sometimes I have to wonder.

I love stuff like this.

.....and of course, people that you tell about it look at you a little....askew.

Ive pulled over many times to take pictures of snowy owls-and got the lens on them only to find a white Walmart bag.

Wow, that's a mistake you don't want to make.