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The “Birds” in the Brush

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Over the years you may have learned to know better but it’s spring and you’re hopeful and maybe this time it’s an unfamiliar sparrow of some kind… but after maneuvering carefully around to a line of sight, it’s that furry little air-raid siren the Eastern chipmunk again. Mammals ground squirrels rodents'

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. but that's pretty much it for mammals. I think I heard an owl once last winter. 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. Idk, generic store brand bird lol. Ocassional robins, sparrows, crows.

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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

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Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. Did I have an answer for him. Sometimes a defrosted chick. He ate my last quail.