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    Quote Originally Posted by darkmother View Post
    My humble contribution to this thread:

    I watched a very heathy coyote trot across the front yard of multiple houses near to where I live. At noon no less.


    It made me happy for some reason.
    We have Coyote. They are fairly shy. One of the last good chuckles I got out of my dad before he passed was "Hey dad know what you and coyote have in common?" Don't ask the answer here, we are family friendly.
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    This just came across some feed I see....this would be beyond cool to see.....and it is clearly bike related!

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...nter-1.5861113


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    Quote Originally Posted by htwoopup View Post
    This just came across some feed I see....this would be beyond cool to see.....and it is clearly bike related!
    Neat.

    Somewhat related: I've stopped countless times, either while on a bike or motorcycle or while driving my car, to move road kill to the side. I know that it's crazy, but I do it for two reasons 1) So any vulture, crow, or whatever critter that stops for a snack isn't itself hit, and 2) Because I feel sorry for the victim, I want to spare the poor thing the indignity of being ground to dust by car and truck tires.

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    Wow.

    That's a very light colored barred owl too. But yellow beak so not much else it could be with that shape and pattern.

    We found a dead white-footed mouse on one of the paths through the middle of our woods a couple days ago. Didn't occur to me that someone could have dropped their lunch. Or dinner. Or midnight snack.
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    Someone got a nice new coat for spring!

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    you've got to stop feeding them
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    Proof that you do indeed live in an enchanted forest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ides1056 View Post
    you've got to stop feeding them
    They can eat all the deer they want.

    Quote Originally Posted by mnoble485 View Post
    Proof that you do indeed live in an enchanted forest.

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    Yeah, still haven't gone hiking in there at night. Might just leave it to the big fellah.
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    I was walking my dogs a few years ago and they took a particular interest in a cave. Inside I caught sight of two gold rings suspended in the gloom, not six feet away. I hustled them on.

    They take awhile to come around, luckily.
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    Quote Originally Posted by htwoopup View Post
    This just came across some feed I see....this would be beyond cool to see.....and it is clearly bike related!

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...nter-1.5861113


    A few years back on the regular Weds night MTB ride I was 3rd in line, following right behind my buddy Trent, when he hit a small owl. Or it hit him. Owl was on the ground eating something. First rider spooked it, and as it tried to take flight it connected with Trent's handlebar, and it tumbled through the air past me. We all stopped, shined our lights around, found him on the ground, he sat up, shook it off, flew up onto a low branch, shook it off again, stared at us for a minute then flew off. Pretty cool.

    I've also followed a much larger owl down the same trail for about 30ft or so at night, that was really cool. He/she was ~10ft in front of me flying at eye level.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ides1056 View Post
    you've got to stop feeding them
    Realized this morning I forgot to take down the suet feeders. They haven't had suet since the end of February as the squirrels had discovered them and were going through the two bricks I put out in about an hour or so. It was fun to watch the red-tailed hawk try to snatch a fat-filled squirrel off the tree, but I ran out of suet bricks and didn't get more. So the feeders were just sitting there empty, screwed to a pine tree.

    Except when I got out there to take them down this morning, there was only half left of each one. It wasn't unlatched or just the door missing - the whole front half, hinge and all, was torn off the tree. Like biting a Tootsie-Pop.

    Found the front parts about 10 feet away. Kind of rusty so it happened at least a week ago. 03/28/2021 around 4AM sounds about right.

    Time to review best practices with food, compost and trash.
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    Quote Originally Posted by j44ke View Post
    Time to review best practices with food, compost and trash.
    Might be time to install a trap-door for the upstairs office so you can retreat to it in case of ursine home invasion.

    (a rescue helicopter can pluck you off the roof...)


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    that puts things into perspective
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    Quote Originally Posted by j44ke View Post
    Realized this morning I forgot to take down the suet feeders. They haven't had suet since the end of February as the squirrels had discovered them and were going through the two bricks I put out in about an hour or so. It was fun to watch the red-tailed hawk try to snatch a fat-filled squirrel off the tree, but I ran out of suet bricks and didn't get more. So the feeders were just sitting there empty, screwed to a pine tree.

    Except when I got out there to take them down this morning, there was only half left of each one. It wasn't unlatched or just the door missing - the whole front half, hinge and all, was torn off the tree. Like biting a Tootsie-Pop.

    Found the front parts about 10 feet away. Kind of rusty so it happened at least a week ago. 03/28/2021 around 4AM sounds about right.

    Time to review best practices with food, compost and trash.
    Suet attracts bears.

    But if you insist on putting it out. Pigasso Farm on Rt. 22 gives it away for free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SlowPokePete View Post
    Suet attracts bears.

    But if you insist on putting it out. Pigasso Farm on Rt. 22 gives it away for free.

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    I'm thinking maybe no more suet next winter. The squirrels are still hungover from all the fat they ate, and while the woodpeckers liked it, I don't like the idea of a bear getting comfortable 20' from our house. There wasn't any suet in the feeders, just a lot of leftover smears. But they have amazing noses, so he could have smelled it from the neighbor's house. I think we'll move the compost down the hill a bit also, though it doesn't look like he bothered that at all.
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    I laughed and laughed earlier this year when I saw the ad for the suet feeder where you could put in two blocks at once.


    The squirrels had taped it to my window.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom View Post
    I laughed and laughed earlier this year when I saw the ad for the suet feeder where you could put in two blocks at once.


    The squirrels had taped it to my window.
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    More bear stuff:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/w...smid=url-share

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    I think this is the same vid as posted above but detours the pay wall:

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021...-hiking-trails
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    Quote Originally Posted by j44ke View Post
    I'm thinking maybe no more suet next winter. The squirrels are still hungover from all the fat they ate, and while the woodpeckers liked it, I don't like the idea of a bear getting comfortable 20' from our house. There wasn't any suet in the feeders, just a lot of leftover smears. But they have amazing noses, so he could have smelled it from the neighbor's house. I think we'll move the compost down the hill a bit also, though it doesn't look like he bothered that at all.
    Local saying: a fed bear is a dead bear. Feed chickens and they will run toward you when they see you. Bears aren't stupid.
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