[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

If you feed them they will come.

[blueunicorn6]

They’re making people into food!

Arrrrrrrrgh!!!

[Rurudyne]

“Please don’t feed the homeless.”

[17th Miss Regt]

"On one hand many people enjoy having wildlife around and they can help support a healthy local ecosystem; however, they could cause conflict with people."

True dat. When I used to party with my friends in the back yard, occasionally a jackalope would come in and try to convince us to fight each other.

[hinckley buzzard]

Any reasonable suburbanite could have told them this. Bambi-lovers feed corn on the cob to deer, who also eat landscaping shrubbery and flowers, enraging neighbors btw. . Squirrels feast on nuts and fruit from trees, dig bulbs planted in gardens, and eat vegetables and berries. Rats gather to eat bird feed which has fallen from bird feeders. Coyotes come to the city to eat rats and mice, runaway cats and probably garbage. Far from “destroying habitat,” the burbs are a lush smorgasbord for wildlife.

[bobby.223]

My ‘back yard’ is the Mountains and critters abound up here. Big ones, little ones, crawling ones, slithering ones, and everything in between. I’m the ‘24 hour all you can eat’ go to place for ‘em in winter. When the deer are here and the wild turkeys cruise thru at the same time, their battles are a flat out riot! The turkeys usually run the deer out! Fun to watch!

[tubebender]

I had a fence company built me this bird feeding station. The uprights are driven 30" into the soil and covered with HD chain-link fencing. There has been evidence of bears climbing on it but they have never breached it. This is in the Eureka Ca city limits

[Georgia Girl 2]

Stop turning these animals into Democrats.

[EinNYC]

I’ve seen several white tail deer under my window in my suburban Baltimore apartment. There are no large woods near me either. This one buck was munching on the yew hedge here.

[Cloverfarm]

My folks’ little house in their retirement community backs up to a steep wooded ravine with a creek at the bottom. They’ve seen more deer, wild turkeys, squirrels and uncommon woodland birds than they ever did at home on the farm :-) Which is great for my Dad