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Piggington needs a "Like" button.

Wow, great story, thanks for sharing. Are you sure it was an egret though? A gopher seems to be too big for such a slight bird.

Great writing, ox, and a great story. Any way you can lend Ed to TG for his gophers?

Yeah, it is an egret. Great egrets are big birds. He visits a few times a week. Sure beats those HomeDepot clamp traps.

OX
...putting ground hogs on alert

Thanks. Wish I could. Ed seems to have found his hood in my yard for now.

OX
...might snag rentanegret.com domain, however.

Funny I didnt see anything about White Death from Above in the disclosure package we got from the sellers.

It must have been an awesome show. Moe, Larry & Shemp (3 bunnies) have been ravaging my backyard. Does Ed have a pallet for bunnies?

Yeah, odd that they didn't mention "carnivorous birds of prey" in all that stuff. Ed would love to gobble some rabbit. Leave a box of RITZ crackers on a silver platter by the door. Edward does have standards, ya know.

OX
...egret pimp

I've seen an egret swallow a gopher whole when I worked in Torrey Pines. I couldn't believe it.

Great story!! How cool.

Oh good. For a moment I thought this was going to be a bad story about a bad case of dandruff.

About two years ago, I have one of those wonderfully beautiful egrets choose beneath my truck as his final resting place.

It was a nice spring day, he landed, walked under the truck and remained there the rest of the day. When I went out the next morning to go to work, I noticed he was still there. Unfortunately, he had passed during the night.

Very sad, obviously had an impact on me as I still remember it.

WTH is an Egret?

To heck with TG, can I borrow Ed for a few days? We lost our dogs to cancer recently and the gophers are moving in !

It kinda is.. cept the dandruff had feathers.

OX
...rinse and repeat this mofo

Sorry, I didn't see the picture of the Egret. We don't get many of those out in the IE, the only thing we really have is yard chickens as far as birds go.

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Cool. Is that in San Marcos? I thought egrets only lived near water.

No shit.
That was an awesome story.

Eddie the Egret and Gary the Gopher?

You, my friend, have a new career in writing children's books. Just make the story ending a bit happier than this one!

:P

CE

hilarious post, glad you shared it too

similar o the gothic realism in lemony snicket's SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, i prefer a nature story that ends brutally and honestly...

gopher attack

I'll give you fifty bucks if you can rent him to me for just one kill. The sonic gopher repellers arrived and they actually attracted the gophers, I had one hole in the lawn, after installing the sonic things, i now have 7 holes. They actually covered the solar panel with dirt yesterday. Where do you buy egrets? Can I buy egret eggs?

In the picture above, the green stuff is seed patch for areas that I am regrowing after the weekend gopher attack, before the gopher repeller arrived there were no holes in that area, in an effort to protect the area, i attracted them. I installed traps, poison and then gopher gassed the first hole, all this caused two new holes daily. I need egrets, entire flocks of them and I need them now!!!!

On second thought, it's probably better if you keep eddie away from my mutant gophers. Since you've named him and everyone already likes him, it would be such a downer when I have to report back that my prison gang gophers killed him, which I'm certain they would, there would only be a few feathers and a leg left behind. I'm gonna have to take it up a notch, How do you make mustard gas?

Sorry to hear about your dogs, sdduuuuude. :(

Were they older dogs? Did the vet think it was strange to have more than one dog get cancer at (what sounds like) the same time?

TG, I think you want to go with a chlorine gas, heavier than air, good for pouring down a gopher hole. Do take precautions.

TG, Edward would have a two mile radius from your house gopher-free in one yummy afternoon. He was born for this and comes with all the tools. Not pretty to watch but he's a getter done kinda guy.

OX
...Edward the Egret Fan Club President (T-Shirts coming)

Am I the only one? Liked the story but do we need all of the swear words?

fuck yeah

obscenity no longer has to do with particular words. it's more substantive i would say. tvs bombard us with tales of child rape, economic mayhem...a simple fuck is refreshing. and not obscene

Loved this story. Keep 'em coming as far as I'm concerned.

My property recently underwent an inspection by two VERY self-empowered raccoons. If they decide to take time off from their evidently busy schedule and come back, I'll post a photo. These guys were HUGE.

We probably need a thread for backyard wild life tails. About 6 years ago my next door neighbors cat had 3 am Battle Royale in my backyard with Bob Cat. She lived to tell about with one less life to show for it.