Re: Barlow on the Removal from Archive


"frndthdevl" <frndthdevl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > you DO know feeding wildlife is a bad thing right?

>> No, I don't. Really?
>>
>> My quail covey disagrees...........

> Feeding wildlife is one of the most destructive things humans can
> inflict on wild animals. Birds being a bit different but not always.
> Feed birds too long and they stay around into winter where they are not
> suppose to be.

Well, those quail ain't going anywhere this winter and they get hungry. You
should see them, everybody feeds them and they're huge!

More quail are killed by my sliding glass door than anything else. BAM!
Despite the decals........

Then a Kresler's Falcon, Red Tailed Hawk, or some huge Raven swoops down and
eats them.

> Feed bears and they get killed.

No bears in my neighborhood, although they say there are black bears on
Grizzly Mtn..

> feed deer and
> artificial populations abound. Creating damage and death in accidents
> with cars among other things. Spreading disease to healthy populations.

I'm putting in a fence so they don't eat all of my landscaping...........

My neighbor puts out alfalfa bales and crabapples for the deer. Either
that draws them to my property or draws them over to his, not sure which is
which.

Considering they'd be down in the alfalfa fields at the bottom of the road
if they weren't in my neighborhood, and considering all the ranchers allow
hunting, and considering its hunting season seemingly all year long here,
they're better off getting fed in a safe place. Not that I'm doing it.

> Hopefully your Marin and city instincts would not compel you to try to
> pet or feed a rutting deer.

No thanks!

They do let me come pretty close to take their pictures though.

> Feed coyotes scraps and the niegihbporhood
> pet cats and dogs start to vanish. Disease is spread.

Very few coyotes around here.

> yeah feeding
> wildlife is a good thing.

The quail agree.

So do the robins, little songbirds, bluebirds, doves, etc.

> I inderstand the appeal of feeding wildife, especially for those in
> newly minted manufactured "ranch" subdivisions catering to retirees
> from the city.

That leaves my neighborhood out. You think I'm rich or something? This is
blue collar retiree heaven; ex-loggers, mill workers, road guys, utility
linemen, military, etc. Half the neighborhood is manufactured homes. This
is America baby!

Picture a bunch of flannel shirt, CAT hat wearing, grizzled old geezers
riding their old beat up yard tractors around while dragging a chain to
scrape the weeds from the ground around their trailers. Then they get out
the old beat up chainsaws and start hacking at the juniper branches under 6
feet high to create a safe fire perimeter. Then they throw all the woody
debris into old oil barrels (or just big piles) and have a bonfire. EVERY
WEEK. Sometimes it looks like a 3rd world country around here with all the
fires going.

I use a chipper so I can have mulch.

We have some families with kids too, its not like this is an age restricted
community. Its a bunch of trailers and some houses on some hills above some
ranches near a small town in the middle of nowhere. Neither the county nor
the HOA own the roads, but we have some old guys who used to work for Oregon
DOT that throw down some gravel, sand, etc when we need it. They do it for
free, just like the guys who fix the wells and cisterns.

> I am sure your CCand R's say don't feed the wildlife
> though.

LOL.

There are two conditions in my CC&R's: no celebratory gunfire on any day
other than July 4 or New Years Eve, and no "permanent" livestock (I want a
temporary llama). They politely suggest you don't deer fence your entire
property as some enjoy having them around. I'm just doing about half an
acre so I can protect my plants and restrain my future numerous dogs. I was
thinking of three or four.

> My tongue is bleeding from all the times you mentioned feeding
> bambi, however I figured the true environmentalists would have called
> you out on this by now. LOL

Bambi is a euphemism for young girlfriend. The true environmentalists are
just jealous.

> Please stop feeding bambi. If you want to disagree go ahead, hopefully
> your shoe size is a small one.

Oh, its small enough alright..........

EGBH


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