Re: OT-Eagle cam

Yep. Known (at least locally) as a game farm.
LZ

Tom Shaw wrote:

Was your farmer neighbor raising the pheasants to produce game for hunters?
TS
"Lone Haranguer" <linusz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4aj9ktFt90a3U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Lon VanOstran wrote:


Lone Haranguer wrote:



The owls. The ducks had already been thinned by the owls. These ducks were not as wary as they should have been since their mother was an incubator. My BIL was in construction at the time and salvaged duck eggs from nests about to be destroyed by road construction.

I'd put 'em in an incubator, hatch them and turn them loose in my lake. Even the following year they would come when called. One year they hadn't migrated yet when deer season came and I fed them when I returned for lunch. I was wearing hunter's orange and that afternoon they were dive-bombing me in my deer stand, giving the mallard feeding call.

My son thought it was funny as hell.
LZ


I've always believed that owls are protected. Have I believed wrong?

Nope. Protected and you need a control permit. You catch the guilty by placing a trap on a pole where your ducks are roosting.

A game farmer about 10 miles away caught 32 owls in one summer to protect his pen-reared pheasants. The Game Warden told him he had a right to protect his investment, just as you can shoot rabbits during the closed season if they are eating the bark off your fruit trees. Just call the Game Warden first. With certain animals, they may trap and relocate the pests instead of letting you handle it. At the time, owls were at a population peak and during the winter they decimated pheasants, rabbits and grouse populations.

Since owls are active only at night, it's a rare person who even notices if populations are up or down. I had a dead oak by the lake that the owls used as a feeding station. The ground was littered with the remains of their victims. They normally don't swallow the heads and feet.
LZ


Lon




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