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There’s More to Birding than Birds

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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. The tours out to the Stillwater Refuge and Carson Lake, though, offered good looks at two coyotes.

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Rancho Ecologico Sol De Mayo

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This area, with its year round water supply, supports a huge amount of life, with coyotes, fox, bobcat and many different rodents, like this Mexican Ground Squirrel. The is no refridgeration, so if you do visit, be sure too include a cooler with ice.

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5 Puzzling Toys That Will Keep Your Pup Entertained for Hours

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Your dog’s wild cousins such as the dingo and the coyote need to use their cleverness to find and capture food. Hide-A-Squirrel Puzzle Plush Toy. Is your pup a squirrel fan? If so, the Hide-A-Squirrel Plush Puzzle Toy is just what you’re looking for. A bored puppy is an unhappy puppy, and possibly a destructive puppy.

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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. They don’t build nests and some like Great Horned Owls take over old hawk or squirrel nests. That is probably one of the adults.

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Winter Wanderland

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We also saw Prairie Dogs , Bison , Mule Deer , Abert’s Squirrel and Coyote. Although careful preparation, sophisticated intel from real ornithologists and a lot of planning had been derailed by half a meter of snow, we ended up scoring 63 species over the weekend. I ticked off 9 lifers.

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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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California Quail, The California State Bird: Now Forming Coveys

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In addition to these aerial predators, their eggs and young are often taken by squirrels, gray foxes, house cats, coyotes, gopher snakes, rattlesnakes, raccoons, American Crows and Western Scrub-Jays. Let us also not forget the two-legged predator with a shotgun.