Posted on 05/17/2021 4:04:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I see so many of them in NJ they should change it to the state Bird. Constantly circling overhead signaling death.
Beautiful ball of fur. I can’t imagine that it has wolf genes.
Neat!
I really don’t know. I fish catch and release when I’m up in AK. My brothers freezer is full to the gunnels so we put them all back.
You are correct - there are estimates that domestic cats kill over 1.5 billion every year. I was referencing the killing of pets.
My dear departed aunt, who was as mild-mannered as anyone you’ve ever met and never willed harm to a living soul, once beat a Red-Tailed Hawk to death with a shovel when she caught it eating on of her chickens.
Every spring she bought a bunch of chicks, peeping like mad in their big box full of holes, raised them in the “brooder house”, and every Labor Day weekend we got a family crew of about 20 people together and butchered, assembly-line style.
Everyone took home a few fresh chickens for the table. Those were the days. That hasn’t happened since about 1983 but I remember it like yesterday.
Which is why Benjamin Franklin was of the opinion that our national bird should be the wild turkey instead of the eagle.
The pilgrims would have starved, supposedly, if not for the presence of turkeys. Eagles eat road kill. He thought the turkey was the more noble choice, but in my opinion turkeys don’t look nearly as good on a coin as eagles.
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