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Hummingbird |
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7 | 24.14% |
Heron |
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2 | 6.90% |
Hawk |
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1 | 3.45% |
Osprey |
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9 | 31.03% |
Grouse |
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10 | 34.48% |
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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We found that scene, deer carcass with hawk, and grabbed the cameras. There is video we shot on YouTube too. That carcass fed many animals besides the hawk over that cold winter until there was nothing left but chewed on bones. Of note: This surrounding property has deer, foxes, and other wildlife which will be forced out when the development begins. ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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"Unfortunately, it will sometime soon be developed." Developers respond to housing needs. More people need more housing.... and when there's more people.... there's more mouths to feed.... and when there's more people.... there's more backs to clothe. Land lost to housing is a drop in the bucket compared to what's lost to agriculture to feed the huddled masses and that's not including the WalMarts and strip malls and golf courses to clothe them and make sure they're "entertained" and hospitals and and and and and.... I keep joking about slipping birth control in the world's water supply but we've really got to do something before all that's left of wildlife in "action" is only gonna be seen on old YouTube videos. dapjwy> they've got cutsey names for farms too. Sunny Brook is one that cracks me up since there's no brook and never was. Then there's Oak Knoll Farm and Hickory Hill where they brought in heavy equipment to take down the oaks and hickories prepping for fields. So I guess names like "Pheasant Run", and "Mallard Drive" aren't so far off if you think about it.... run pheasant run... drive the mallards out. Anyone notice the hummingbird and grouse photos are neck and neck with the osprey trailing close behind? I wonder which one is gonna get 1st place.
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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As for population growth, I remember being in a class that explained exponential growth using house cats as a model. It seems to me some people could grasp the idea of exponential growth and the destructive force it would have when it came to a species other than Homo sapiens--when it comes to that it seems people shut down their brains. (I slept in this morning, and I don't think I expressed that quite the way I wanted, but (listen up havalotta!) I won't be back in editing it to get it right! ~wink & smile~ |
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#16 |
WG Writer
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA
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My place is named "rabbit hill" and there are a whole lot of rabbits here--a few deer too.
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#17 |
POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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nut, you rock!
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Y'all must have better road crews in Illinois than we do in Chapel Hill, at least out in the rural outskirts where I live. As far as I can tell, no-one ever clears road-kill, at least any more than just shoving it to the side of the road. I routinely watch black vultures and turkey vultures, and occasionally a hawk, feasting.
I stop to help the herps cross the road. You should have seen my daughter and I trying to get a large snapping turtle to finish crossing by playing "bull and red flag" with her sweater - he would lunge at the fabric and move a couple of feet, and then we'd wave it again and so on until he made it out of the roadway. At least he didn't end up roadkill, just angry at us. ![]()
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Good job turtle...
Turttle saves turtle... We need more folk like you.
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