Dread the day feral pigs move into the neighborhood. A problem in the South and West, they have recently been reported in upstate New York. Mark Mazer Hertford, North Carolina USDA 8a On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com> wrote: > We are seeing more and more of a limited variety of wildlife. Lots of > deer. There used to be wild turkeys when we first moved here about 18 > years ago. Now scarce, likely due to the coyotes that have come into the > area. Ground nesting birds such as turkeys are at risk. Both black and > turkey vultures. Red tail hawks. Great horned owls. Skunks, raccoons, > ground hogs, opossum, red fox. A neighbor was just e-mailing around the > other day, warning of an aggressive black bear on our road. (Though how > he knew it was aggressive is beyond me. Any black bear I saw ambling > down the street would be observed from inside the house.) > > Grey squirrel numbers rise with a good acorn crop, then drop when the > mast returns to "normal." The foxes successfully raise a larger litter > with the ample supply of squirrels, then drop again when the squirrel > numbers fall. Voles especially have a boom-and-bust cycle. > > We let someone deer hunt the back of our property. There are other > hunters elsewhere up and down the road. Since the does tend to drop > twins it doesn't seem to do much to reduce their numbers. And we do > enjoy locavore, free range venison. Nicer than the ranched version > shipped in from New Zealand. > > Judy in New Jersey where a drizzle of rain is very much welcome > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >