Is this a fox den?

[stuckmotor]

It surprised me so much to learn that woodpeckers ate anything other than insect larva they's pecked out of trees that I looked up their diet. The items that caught my attention were peanut butter, also jelly. The article didn't mention putting the two together in a sandwich.

 

[stuckmotor]

Waskily Wabbits.... grrrr!!!



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If you are vewy, vewy, quiet, you might sneak up on one of those wabbits.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

It surprised me so much to learn that woodpeckers ate anything other than insect larva they's pecked out of trees that I looked up their diet. The items that caught my attention were peanut butter, also jelly. The article didn't mention putting the two together in a sandwich.

They fly down and take the peanuts and then go up into a tree and wedge them into cracks in the bark, so they can collect them to eat later.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Well, again...I do understand the balance of nature also, having lived here 42 years. I don't hunt, rarely ever shoot anything.
Years ago we had everything here, then things started to disappear. By me planting bushes and food sources I've made it more conducive for wildlife, yet things are disappearing.
I grew up 15 miles from here, neighbor had 2500 acres. We never ever saw a deer...until sometime in the 60s my grandfather saw one way down in his front pasture. We were amazed.
Then a while back I visit my 95 yo Mom, still living there. There was a herd of 50...fifty deer around her house.
So yes...it's man's encroachment, loss of habitat AND preditors.
What I don't want are a few foxes or coyote and NO quail, rabbits, turkey...list goes on.
Opossums can carry disease to horses. Those are easy to live trap and relocate.
Coyote are so bad in this county and next over where I grew up the county pays $50/head for them.

 

[MossRoad]

Deer actually benefit from human encroachment. Quail don't. So if you're seeing more deer and less quail, that fits perfectly with more people causing the decline in quail, not foxes.

When I was a kid living on the north side of our town, the back yards were the city limit. We never, ever saw any deer, but we had tons of bob white. Fast forward 50 years and it's almost all houses for couple miles north now. There are now tons of deer and no bob white.

There are still the same amount of foxes.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Deer actually benefit from human encroachment. Quail don't. So if you're seeing more deer and less quail, that fits perfectly with more people causing the decline in quail, not foxes.

When I was a kid living on the north side of our town, the back yards were the city limit. We never, ever saw any deer, but we had tons of bob white. Fast forward 50 years and it's almost all houses for couple miles north now. There are now tons of deer and no bob white.

There are still the same amount of foxes.

The same thing happened where we used to live only it was killdeer, they simply cannot exist with mowed lawns and automobile traffic and dogs and cats. After 4 or 5 years they were wiped out.

 

[ruffdog]

One "predator" isn't going to cause you to not have rabbits.

Rabbits: How to Manage Your Land for More Cottontails - Game & Fish

As habitat improvements accumulate, the future for rabbits (and rabbit hunting) and other wildlife will brighten.

www.gameandfishmag.com

If you get a nesting pair of Great Horned Owls, your rabbit population disappears. They don't call them "flying tigers" for nothing!

 

[NorTracNY]

Fox may be cute, but they have lost all cuteness in my eyes. They have taken out too many of my birds over the years. There are plenty of rabbits, mice, and squirrels, but they seems to like my poultry best.

 

[MossRoad]

The same thing happened where we used to live only it was killdeer, they simply cannot exist with mowed lawns and automobile traffic and dogs and cats. After 4 or 5 years they were wiped out.

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I used to see a lot of those at the airport, and at the beaches along Lake Michigan. Still do along the lake.

 

[ruffdog]

Killdeer like the cow/horse pastures too.