Some kangaroos over a few days on our Front Door Ring Cam

[Buckshot Bear]

Some kangaroos over a few days on our Front Door Ring Cam

 

 

[Dapper Dave]

You have a beautiful homestead, sir. 

[Rip Snorter]

Solar or battery electric fence,  then again, your laws on suppressors...

 

[J-BAR #18287]

Our son as a toddler called them "kanaroons".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[watab kid]

i appreciate your homestead as well , it seems they are quite common , do they leave deposits that you have to clean up ? they seem to be as prevalent as our geese and yes they do leave deposits that make the lawn unpleasant 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Maybe a BB gun? It’ll scare em away!

[Subdeacon Joe]

Odd looking things.  
(Joe, you shouldn't be so willing to call the kettle black!)

[Eyesa Horg]

Pretty neat actually! Love your water front mate.

[Dawg Hair, SASS #29557]

Definitively not Florida.........................although there may be Gators in the pond....................

[Rye Miles #13621]

Here in Ohio all we have is the usual suspects, deer, squirrels, possums an occasional ground hog and birds!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Do kangaroos destroy anything?

[Eyesa Horg]

They're eating his bushes by the steps!!

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

Cool looking critters on an awesome spread! And so very nice of you to make them feel welcome!

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

[Windy City Kid]

Australia, where the only creature that can't kill you are the kangaroos . . . um . . .er . . .never mind. 

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Nice.  I can see that a double gate is necessary, else you would have them on the porch. 🦘🦘

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, Windy City Kid said:

Australia, where the only creature that can't kill you are the kangaroos . . . um . . .er . . .never mind. 

Don't go swimming with them🤣

[Buckshot Bear]

18 hours ago, watab kid said:

i appreciate your homestead as well , it seems they are quite common , do they leave deposits that you have to clean up ? they seem to be as prevalent as our geese and yes they do leave deposits that make the lawn unpleasant 

 

They do a large dropping similar to a sheep and like all grass eaters a LOT!
The dogs certainly enjoy them!

Did you see the wild ducks in some of the vids? Sometimes there's 50 - 80 of them on the front lawn and THEY create a LOT of waste!

[Buckshot Bear]

6 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Do kangaroos destroy anything?

 

No not really, they do an OK job of keeping the grass down. We've had an enormous amount of rain the last 10 or so days with around 2" - 4" a day which has caused some ponding on the lawn, when they hop through that and make loud noises it sets our dogs on bezerk mode!

The roos will grunt at each other and box and kick all night. 

[Rip Snorter]

Loudspeakers and Disco?  Classical Concerts? Rap?  

[watab kid]

3 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

They do a large dropping similar to a sheep and like all grass eaters a LOT!
The dogs certainly enjoy them!

Did you see the wild ducks in some of the vids? Sometimes there's 50 - 80 of them on the front lawn and THEY create a LOT of waste!

i will agree on the ducks and geese , i have riverfront and they seem to enjoy the grass , thankfully they stay close to the water , 

 

at our gubclub we have them plus deer , so i can relate to that issue as well 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

What do they do if you go out there? If you have many people out there?

[Buckshot Bear]

5 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

What do they do if you go out there? If you have many people out there?

 

Instantly stop eating and look up at you as in the pic below and consider the threat, if you're still they'll go back to eating. If they hear the dogs they'll take off. 
 

 

Unfortunately over the years and generations of them, some of them are losing their fear and they can be dangerous and nothing to mess around with as the bucks are pretty well built (these are Eastern Grey Kangaroos, smaller than the Red Kangaroo found more to the West) -

 

 

Our home is on piers 3' above the ground level for flooding (I'm on a salt water estuary open to the sea with the Entrance to the ocean around 1 kilometre away and at night with their fighting we have had them jump to get away from another roo and hit our picture windows HARD, luckily one hasn't broken through yet!
 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

You should have a recorded dog bark. Don’t play it except in emergencies.

[Buckshot Bear]

40 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

You should have a recorded dog bark. Don’t play it except in emergencies.

 

I do have two of these in their charges at all times  

 

[Painted Mohawk SASS 77785]

We have a lot of Roos' that hop across our back paddock , some are over 6'...they hang around the nearby golf course..quite a few have a very low handicap, others steal the balls stick em' in their pouch & hop off... 

[Rye Miles #13621]

13 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:

Loudspeakers and Disco?  Classical Concerts? Rap?  

Yea but no polkas, they’ll be hopping around like crazy 🤪😂

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Can they be hunted, or is it not allowed?

[John Kloehr]

Don't see this every day in Alabama:

 

 

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, John Kloehr said:

Don't see this every day in Alabama:

 

 

 

I hear that he got off at the next exit...went to the IHOP for pancakes

[Pat Riot]

We get a lot of deer here. White tails and Mule Deer. The females will hang out together, which is uncommon I’m told. 
We put corn out for them otherwise they eat all the birdseed out of the feeders. 
 

Here are some grainy night photos that my iPhone lightened automatically. 
 

 

 

 

 

[Buckshot Bear]

11 hours ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

Can they be hunted, or is it not allowed?

 

They are protected, but 3 million plus roos are shot by professional shooters each year. Farmers and Graziers can get permits to cull.

[Buckshot Bear]

4 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

We get a lot of deer here. White tails and Mule Deer. The females will hang out together, which is uncommon I’m told. 
We put corn out for them otherwise they eat all the birdseed out of the feeders. 
 

Here are some grainy night photos that my iPhone lightened automatically. 
 

 

 

 

 

Those photos are great Pat, can you get close to them?

[John Kloehr]

Seems to be completely legal for me to take deer in my yard where I live. Neighbor says take one, I'll come for it. Best friend says take, one, I'll come for it.

 

If they are anything like "Chuckie," (generic name for any woodchuck on my property), I'm going to have to be very quiet and load a round before I go outside. I went outside before racking a round for Chuckie, did not know they could move that fast!

 

I don't like Chuckie digging under my barn and was going to provide sustenance for the vultures, my lady did suggest I might not be happy with the aftermath. What, vultures? No, a skunk might move into the barn afterwards!

 

Not taking a deer yet, but wise council suggests taking lessons from the Chuckie experience and waiting to deal with a skunk should that happen*. Chuckie is safe for the moment, but dang had 18 deer grazing in my lawn one morning a few weeks ago. All who say go ahead and take one are willing to share the meat. They also know I have very limited freezer space.

 

Someone hit a skunk with their car right by my house a while back. I now know I can have it removed for $100. Don't know where it went, but figure downwind at least a mile. Don't even know the guy's name, but I have a phone number and he has a truck and a snow shovel.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

On 5/1/2025 at 9:07 AM, Rip Snorter said:

Loudspeakers and Disco?  Classical Concerts? Rap?  

 

 

 

 

 

                                               .......... hop .....

[watab kid]

i got one of those door bells but he wont use the charging pod - he prefers the couch [and the wife] nut he would go off if those were present , unless you like seeing them you need a deterent , motion detecting dog bark ? or something