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(As your trees, shrubs, flowers grow, so will the number of wildlife visiting your property) By Jeremy Johnson HENDERSONVILLE, TN As urban progress continues to turn once empty fields and wooded areas into subdivisions, the animals that once lived there do not always leave when the landscape changes. (Illustration by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department) From birds building a nest in gutters to Whitetail Deer eating the garden, to Raccoons turning over garbage cans, wild animals can often become pests to their new neighbors. “Nuisance wildlife is very common and it’s been that way for years,” said Ed Warr, Assistant Chief of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s Wildlife Division. Taking simple steps to remove the elements they need most to make an area their home can usually control problem wildlife, he said. Warr said one of the most commonly seen problems is... Read On | ||||
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By Jeff Mill CROMWELL, CT-- That four-legged blur that flashed by your car while you were en route to work last week. Was it really a coyote? More than likely the answer is yes, said Cheryl Gagnon, the town's animal control officer. "We have coyotes everywhere, all over town." But it's not a question of coyotes suddenly invading town, she said. "They have been here even when we didn't know they were here.I'm aware that coyotes have been in this town since the early 1980s," one veteran police officer recalled. However, "because there is such a surge in building now, you're seeing them everywhere," Gagnon said. "We're just seeing more of them because we are disrupting their homes, their dens." Police Chief Anthony J. Salvatore said he was looking out his kitchen window last week when he... Read On | ||
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By Christine McConville MEDFORD, MA-- So it's officially winter: the ground is frozen solid, there's ice in the streams and ponds, and animal control officers are getting lots of calls. "They'll usually say, 'There's a fox or a coyote in my backyard.
What should I do?' " said Jerry Smith, Winchester's longtime animal
control officer. He tells them it's just that time of year. "It's mating season, and they are all out there looking," Smith said. "And if they've already got a mate, chances are they are looking for food." Mating habits aside, wildlife specialists say that throughout the Boston suburbs, there are more frequent, and more varied, sightings than ever before. "There are some wildlife sightings that people would have been surprised about 20 years ago," said Marion Larson, information and education biologist at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Moose sightings...Read On | ||
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New Backyard Playground SOME people build swimming pools in their back yards. But outdoor pools in Alaska just won't work. Since this particular family lives on the outskirts of Anchorage, they decided to build a sturdy, colorful playground for their 3- and 4-year-old sons, with smooth-stone gravel all around it to avoid knee scrapes and other injuries. They finished building it on Saturday evening, and the following morning, as the mom was about to wake up the boys and have them go out to play in their new play center, this is what she saw from the upstairs window--a family of Black Bears playing on the new playground! For more nature photographs, see the Gallery on WindStar's web site and Nature's Best Photographs Album in the American Wildlife Blog. | ||
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Birds Reduce Body Temperatures To Survive Cold WHEN Andrew Dolby and his students at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia capture local songbirds and fit them with radio transmitters, they are often surprised by what they find. The birds, "hot rods of the animal kingdom" by day, are almost torpid by night. Some reduce their body temperatures so much that they stretch "the definition of warm-blooded," Dolby said. The technique is one of several that resident birds use to survive the winter. Northern Cardinals, Carolina Wrens and Tufted Titmice can't come in from the cold, so they adapt... Read On To read other new Blog articles, click on these: The Animals Appear To Be Talking! Deer Share Habitat With Family Idaho Does Not Like Moose Molesters Wildlife Photographer Falls To His Death | ||
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That's it for this week. Be sure and sign up for the American Wildlife Blog for the latest commentary and please feel free to add comments of your own. Have An EXCELLENT Day in your WILDLIFE HABITAT! (Tufted Titmouse loves berries)
 Tom Patrick Email: wildlife@windstar.org
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