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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. I've heard someone saw some coyotes about a year ago but I haven't seen or heard them. We do have a possum and a raccoon that live somewhere on the property. And I have found one small dead garden snake in the street. but that's pretty much it for mammals.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

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In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count. We’ve got coyotes in Chicago and its suburbs, but I’ve never bumped into one in the field.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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You typically do not find a bird this naked or featherless outside of the nest unless there has been a storm or the nest has been attacked by predator like a raccoon, chipmunk, squirrel or corvids. But maybe this will help you triage the situation when you see a baby bird: This is a very young House Wren. That is probably one of the adults.

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