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We have a few now in Hunter - I see a big one cruising the stream behind my house..
No fisher cats in a couple years.. I think a big hawk took the one I used to see out. We have Coopers Hawks which do damage to the doves in the yard.. And I can hear the coyotes yapping all night up on the ski mountain mid summer..
It's like Wild Kingdom all up in there..
Truth about the bats... It's fukced up not seeing them anymore.
The bats are being taken out by disease...
White Nose Syndrome
http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/disease_information/white-nose_syndrome/
The bats are being taken out by disease...
White Nose Syndrome
http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/disease_information/white-nose_syndrome/
Very unfortunate. Since bats help fertilize about 75% of the trees on the planet certainly not good for humans.
And the there's the bugs.... Bats can eat close to 1,000 mosquitos in one hour...
I've seen some moths that are the size of birds... i attribute it to the lack of bats...
Sounds like Luna moths. They are gigantic as moths go.
And I'll bet the lack of bats has influenced the spread of the Zika virus which is mosquito borne.
Sounds like Luna moths. They are gigantic as moths go.
And I'll bet the lack of bats has influenced the spread of the Zika virus which is mosquito borne.
Haven't seen too many Luna's , theses guys are around
Brown Bats are recovering in my area, Have seen a lot last Summer.
If you want to clean up mosquito population put up Purple Martin houses . Have a relative who tried for decades to get them and finally got them to nest , Once they get established they return every year and in large numbers.
I've noticed a swing in predator /prey population in my yard , been in my house for 17rs when I first moved in one day had 52 turkeys in the yard one day. Then sighted foxes more often hardly an turkey sightings for a few years now there coming back along with the rabbit population.
A bunch of transient Great horned owls , lately Screech owls .
Saw a big bear across the street from my house Saturday night.. He ran when I yelled at him..
I really hope my while trash neighbors don't put garbage out.. We do pretty good with that stuff on this side of Hunter.
Bears have never been a problem - fingers crossed..