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the week before Halloween
Next to "the Lake" we have not had a killing frost yet. I found damn floating bird
feathers in the water and went nuts thinking there was a dead morning dove fouling my koi pond. So I ripped all the netting off to uncover the pond. by this time of year the water celery has grown out over the netting and covers the back half of the pond. http://tinyurl.com/5jo6o7 so I had to cut all the water celery with DH hauling at the netting. we opened it up and DH started scooping with the net, but the water had gotten pretty yellowed and we couldnt see to the bottom. NO DEAD BIRD. over last week I drained about 600 gallons one day, added it back the next. did this twice so far. NO DEAD BIRD. no more feather. beast must have landed on celery to get a drink of water from fall and got feet caught and went nuts leaving feathers floating around. sheesh. now I see some white patches on a couple koi and have no idea where my PP is. anyway, this weekend I was supposed to get the cyperus out of the veggie filter and into a tub in the heated garage. didnt happen. it looks like we have another week without a freeze. have to find the works to put over the pond. Ingrid |
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the week before Halloween
jan - I forgot to tell you I saw one of our bandit friends
flattened down on Columbia Drive... may he rest in pieces. k :-) |
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the week before Halloween
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:47:32 EDT, kathy wrote:
jan - I forgot to tell you I saw one of our bandit friends flattened down on Columbia Drive... may he rest in pieces. k :-) Yes, I saw him, assuming he was the same one he was gone by afternoon.... I wonder who picked him up and not the stinky skunk 12 feet away? (Course by that time the skunk was pretty well grounded into the roadway.) Back when I was a kid the Wildlife people told my dad that they could give a pretty accurate count of the # of pheasants in an area by the # of road kill/mile. I've seen a few Rocky's hit locally lately which by using the same calculations means there are a whole lot more out there. And now they're ripping thru nets! And it didn't stop the visits here as the next night after seeing the Rocky Roadkill I had digging in the yard. I have plans of extending the hot wire when the vegetation dies back. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us |
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the week before Halloween
~ jan wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:47:32 EDT, kathy wrote: jan - I forgot to tell you I saw one of our bandit friends flattened down on Columbia Drive... may he rest in pieces. k :-) Yes, I saw him, assuming he was the same one he was gone by afternoon.... I wonder who picked him up and not the stinky skunk 12 feet away? (Course by that time the skunk was pretty well grounded into the roadway.) Back when I was a kid the Wildlife people told my dad that they could give a pretty accurate count of the # of pheasants in an area by the # of road kill/mile. I've seen a few Rocky's hit locally lately which by using the same calculations means there are a whole lot more out there. And now they're ripping thru nets! LOL. You have to consider though that Racoons are smart. Not terribly smart about roads, admittedly, but generally _very_ smart. Pheasants, otoh, are really, really, stupid. I hit one once - the stupid thing was on the shoulder of the road, and when we came by it flew _into_ the car, instead of away from... So probably, you could compute the number of racoons from the roadkill, but definitely not using the _same_ calculation as for pheasants. Our local most common roadkill is porcupines (thankfully - I have a personal beef, as I love dogs and trees, and they are really destructive of both). I'm not even sure they're actually stupid, but their entire lives have told them that nothing can hurt them - so they assume cars will avoid them. otoh, of the other wildlife we see around here, I've never seen a dead deer (that might actually be because they get immediately dressed out and freezer-ized - you _should_ get some recompense for the expense of fixing the car), one fox (quite common both in the urban and rural areas) and one coyote (howling on the hill as I write), but lots of racoons and skunks. -- derek |
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