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bjrogg:
We’re hunting wabbits.
Willwee I’m not hunting wabbits. They aren’t in Season but they sure are doing good around here.
Bjrogg
Pat B:
Lots of critters are enjoying the lack of human activity.
willie:
the snowshoes here are boom and bust. some years go by and I see one or two all winter, but when the cycle is at peak I have counted 150 per mile of dirt road. they even eat spruce trees along with every thing else. my neighbor killed 87 off of his 5 acres after loosing his telephone wire where it came up out of the ground and the oxygen sensor wire on his car exhaust pipe.
bjrogg:
Don’t think these are seeing any less humans. Unless I’m busy in the fields which I guess I have been.
These ones are by my pond and really enjoying my clover cover crop.
I can count three in the picture but I know there’s at least five.
The population has been higher than I can ever remember. For the past several years I thought they had to be close to there peak . But they just keep multiplying like wabbits.
Sure are a lot of predators out there after them. I’m sure the Bald Eagles are enjoying them. Although usually they have fish when I see them with something.
Bjrogg
willie:
Seems like here, hawks will move into the area, as I am sure other predators do also. when the leaves fall you can see lots of rabbit skins with feet hanging in the trees.
Rabbit Fever might be what ends the cycle. People can catch it also. Be careful.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1297/report.pdf
Is number 4 just above the clump of yellow dandelions in the lower left corner?
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