Reason number 3,657,935 why my Dad is the best: As we were snowmobiling, we approached a bog and three eagles with about 20 crows took off. It could only mean one thing in my book - something was dead. We circled back and walked around in the snow but the birds had left and we couldnt find anything that would resemble a meal. A part of me thinks that we were in the wrong piece of land and should have been on the other side of the bog but in our snowmobile gear, we were not going to cover a lot of ground. I was disappointed that we couldn't find what the birds were eating but I was able to get some good pictures of one of the mature eagles and the immature eagle that were flying around.
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Very interesting since I have heard MANY coyotes while heading in and out of the woods during hunting season. One pack even beat us to an IMPRESSIVE 8 pointer that would have been a great trophy. Is there a problem? yes. Should there be a plan/conservation set up? yes. We dont need to kill every last one of them, but we also need to make sure coyotes done eradicate other species of wildlife and who knows what the impact will be if they continue to get out of hand and start going after bigger, healthier deer. Could be a bad turn of events.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the re-post! Coyotes are just one part of the multiple identified problems in Maine's deer herd. If any species is allowed to run rampant it will overwhelm other species. I look at how we currently try to balance fisheries operations and balance Togue and Pike populations and wonder why we can't implement stronger measures to control coyote numbers. NOT eradicate them just put the population back in check.
ReplyDeleteLook at the turkey numbers - they were re-introduced and all of a sudden... boom! way to many
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