10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it? Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Peregrine don’t take many, being more of a bird prey specialist, but apart from that they are the daily feature on the menu of foxes, ermine, wolves, Rough-legged Hawks , Gyrfalcon and especially Snow Owls. Arctic Foxes will have as many as 16 kits on good lemming years. So this was a good summer for lemmings, a very good year.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. The foxes wreaked havoc on nesting birds, and island by island the geese disappeared, until it seemed that they were gone for good.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
A beautiful series of raised boardwalks have been constructed, allowing year round access to the area, thru the marsh area, all the way out nearly a half mile into the tidal flats. These were my first Fox Sparrows of the year. Over 200 species of birds can be found on the refuge, depending on the time of year.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2021
We have to understand, though, that this was a natural predator and not one of our introduced feral cats or foxes. Last year they were successful at raising one chick, so we just have to hope they are this year too. It was not a good result at all and not what we had hoped to find.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2013
” I never did read about them, and eventually the memory of Sammy Blue Jay, Polly Woodchuck, Reddy Fox, and the rest faded to the back of my mind along with the details of Struggle Beneath the Sea and Sharon, Lois, and Bram.
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