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Urban fox study (OT)
See if you can get this in the USA or further.
There are two streaming dencams with cubs. It will explain why it's almost impossible to keep free range chickens here - http://foxes.channel4.com/ Tweed |
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On 05/03/2012 05:47 PM, Christina Websell wrote:
See if you can get this in the USA or further. There are two streaming dencams with cubs. It will explain why it's almost impossible to keep free range chickens here - http://foxes.channel4.com/ Tweed +++++ It comes in very well in Utah. MLB |
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On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:04:12 -0600, MLB wrote:
On 05/03/2012 05:47 PM, Christina Websell wrote: See if you can get this in the USA or further. There are two streaming dencams with cubs. It will explain why it's almost impossible to keep free range chickens here - http://foxes.channel4.com/ Tweed +++++ It comes in very well in Utah. MLB Fine in NYC. We don't have foxes here. Raccoons and possums, but not foxes. There are some chickens. |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... See if you can get this in the USA or further. There are two streaming dencams with cubs. It will explain why it's almost impossible to keep free range chickens here - http://foxes.channel4.com/ Tweed I've been watching it. They're so cute. We've had urban or rather suburban foxes coming into our gardens for years. ( outskirts of West London) I've always had small furries and they run loose but only between certain times in the day times. They are kept inside at other times. Alison |
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"Alison" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... See if you can get this in the USA or further. There are two streaming dencams with cubs. It will explain why it's almost impossible to keep free range chickens here - http://foxes.channel4.com/ Tweed I've been watching it. They're so cute. We've had urban or rather suburban foxes coming into our gardens for years. ( outskirts of West London) I've always had small furries and they run loose but only between certain times in the day times. They are kept inside at other times. Alison Fox cubs are very cute. Unfortunately they grow up. I have a biased view as I keep poultry, and as I said to Mary, I only found out about foxes daytime predations the hard way. I was very interested in the GPS tracking - I wanted to see their daytime movements and if there was a pattern of activity/asleep. I'd hoped it would be more of a scientific study rather than naming all the foxes and cubs which appeals to those people who feed them in their gardens and have ultimately been responsible for turning a nocturnal animal, easily tolerated, into a nuisance. Tweed |
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"MLB" wrote in message ... On 05/03/2012 05:47 PM, Christina Websell wrote: See if you can get this in the USA or further. There are two streaming dencams with cubs. It will explain why it's almost impossible to keep free range chickens here - http://foxes.channel4.com/ Tweed +++++ It comes in very well in Utah. MLB I was not sure you'd be able to see it as in the small print it says "dencams only available to UK residents" but I thought even the videos were worth watching. Most people who have cats like other animals and have an interest in nature. Nüle cannot see the streaming dencams in Germany, so I am really surprised you can, but hey! that's great. I love webcams that teach us the secrets of wild animal's lives. Tweed |
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MaryL wrote:
Feeding wild animals is also a problem here. Most of us love animals, and it is often a temptation to feed them, especially if they are "cute." Unfortunately, that means that they often become pests and neighbors may not appreciate having them attracted close to their homes. Even the cutest animals may create damage--foxes may destroy chickens (as Tweed as described), animals that get into houses may chew and damage the interior, etc. Even more unfortunate (in fact, tragic) for the animals--foxes, raccoons, etc.--is that this means they will often be destroyed because now they are seen as "pests." Over the past couple of weeks, I've gone to two different parks and I noticed that the squirrels in each place were both fat and fearless. They would come right up to you. I saw one squirrel spot a group of people sitting together and I could just see the thought bubble over the squirrel's head: "Oh, boy - humans! Handouts!" Of course, there are signs all over the place in both parks saying not to feed any of the wildlife. But people don't care, they just go on feeding them. Squirrels, like most little animals, are cute. But I don't like them to come near me because the species does carry rabies. I know it's rare, but that's not a risk I want to take. Besides, they might carry other things, like parasites that I wouldn't want to pick up. As far as I know, the parks department doesn't kill the squirrels even though they have become pests. These squirrels don't even run away from people's dogs! -- Joyce Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto a freeway. |
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On Fri, 4 May 2012 19:52:51 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote: "MLB" wrote in message ... On 05/03/2012 05:47 PM, Christina Websell wrote: See if you can get this in the USA or further. There are two streaming dencams with cubs. It will explain why it's almost impossible to keep free range chickens here - http://foxes.channel4.com/ Tweed +++++ It comes in very well in Utah. MLB I was not sure you'd be able to see it as in the small print it says "dencams only available to UK residents" but I thought even the videos were worth watching. Most people who have cats like other animals and have an interest in nature. Nüle cannot see the streaming dencams in Germany, so I am really surprised you can, but hey! that's great. I love webcams that teach us the secrets of wild animal's lives. Tweed I live right near Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (site of the tennis US Open) and there are a pair of hawks living in the Unisphere. I was biking by this Sunday (on the way home from the Five Boro Bike Tour) and the park rangers had set up a - telescope? - so that people could look at the baby hawk in the nest. The nest is built on the equator, near India, although I doubt the hawks are aware of that. Last year I was biking past when one of the hawks flew right into a flock of pigeons, took one in midair, and went on top of one of the light poles pointed at the Unisphere. I wasn't exactly sure what I had seen until feathers started raining down from the light pole, then I knew for sure what had happened. |
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dgk wrote:
I live right near Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (site of the tennis US Open) and there are a pair of hawks living in the Unisphere. I was biking by this Sunday (on the way home from the Five Boro Bike Tour) and the park rangers had set up a - telescope? - so that people could look at the baby hawk in the nest. The nest is built on the equator, near India, although I doubt the hawks are aware of that. The Unisphere! That does take me back. DGK is referring to the symbol of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, an enormous wire frame-style model of the earth, made of steel. I've never lived in New York, so I haven't had much reason to think of it since '65, when I was there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisphere I'm sure that no matter where the hawks decided to build a home, the climate would be the same. -- Joyce "Riveting reading that keeps readers reading." -- The Midwest Book Review |
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