Alabamacoastie
Adiutor vicinorum
Puddle Pirate
2A Bourbon Hound 2024
2A Bourbon Hound OG
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I thought you were gonna say it was a bald eagle!My grandfather has passed, so I’ll tell his story.
He was a farmer in IL and liked cardinals, the birds not the ball team. One day “his” cardinals were very upset about something up in the pine trees about 120’ from the house. To help calm his cardinals he took the 10 gauge out of the closet and fired a round up into the tree. He’d lived there his whole life and had never seen anything like the giant bird that fell dead from that tree, and so being a good farmer he nailed it to the side of the barn facing the road. He was pretty proud of it so had “mama” take a polaroid of him and it, he mailed that to us.
We got the picture, there he was holding his shotgun with a big grin standing next to a great horned owl that was 2’ tall and had a wingspan greater than 4’. Still have that polaroid around here somewhere. We called and explained what it was, he took it down and buried it. I think he regretted killing it.