[TheForge] Fox news OT:

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He's lucky, birds like that eagle, usually grab the head of their target.  Thus, they usually break the skull, neck, or both and may do so without cutting flesh.  Strong birdie feet.
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From: peter fels & phoebe palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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On 11/10/2010 4:33 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> peter fels&  phoebe palmer wrote:
>> Good storys!
>> We found raccoons make a fine soil amendment.
>> I don't like to get up at 4 AM; so i use the have-a-heart trap (to spare
>> our cats)
>>    and then pop the coons at my leisure.
>> I too found that there are a near infinite supply of raccoons
>> and i only had a limited supply of chickens.
> 	We've lost 80+ chickens since April when we moved up here to Elkview.
> Had I not caught the culprit in the middle of an attempt on one of the
> roosters, had someone told me a golden eagle was taking them, I'd have
> told them to get back on their meds.  We're lousy with them here.  That
> particular example had at least a 10' span.
Wow!!
We had one land in our dead tree last week for the first time...BIG!
>    When he saw me, he split up
> into a tree, about 30' up.  He flapped his wings exactly twice.
> Amazing.  I've taken many shots at the bastard since, but I'm not much
> of a wing shooter, so thus far he's managed to have the last neener.
>
> 	We're also lousy with coyotes here.  Hollow at bottom of our place has
> tons of them - they raise quite a ruckus right around sunset.
>
> 	And as if that were not enough, we have a very big kitty in the
> neighborhood, ca. 200# and jet black from head to tail.  Neighbor's game
> camera caught it about 2 weeks ago.  DNR denies there are any black
> panthers in WV.  They lie.
Black! Gee. When the big kitty comes into the neighborhood around here, 
the coyoters vanish one by one and don't return for a couple of years.
> 	So we're down to about 40 birds.  Sucks.  I am, however, preparing to
> build a new bird house for everyone.  I'm hoping 12x20 will be enough.
>
> 	BTW, the rooster the eagle was on came out without a scratch, but I
> found him on his back completely paralyzed from the terror.  He refused
> to leave the barn for about 5 days.  He's better now. :)
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