Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Coyotes were not indigenous to the Eastern United States. How they got east of the Mississippi river is open to speculation and debate. But they are here now and they are not particularly welcome. Bob Shaw <rsphotoimages@comcast.net> wrote: I'm always a little bemused at the outcry against predators (and their hybrid offspring) from the very folks who encroached on their turf, and have been since the 1500's. Perhaps they'll all be happy when our country is just one endless Shopping Mall, punctuated with high rise condo/office/hotel/retail clusters with storm water holding ponds teeming with three-eyed fish and not a single wild species left to eradicate. Nothing left to shoot at except targets or each other. Out here, I live in a relatively dense suburban area just southeast of Seattle. Fences, cul-de-sacs, SUVs abound, yet just last week my wife and I shared a "stare-down" from a juvenile coyote in mid-morning daylight. This time of year the local pack (3 or 4 that I know of) set up quite a chorus in one of the last remaining "green spaces", a ten-acre forest they use to jump from neighborhood to neighborhood en route to other small parcels of woodland. They don't know or care about Anna Nicole, Alberto Gonzales or Downloading Ring Tones. They just live in the moment from birth to death. I guess that's Un-American, huh? Bob in Seattle On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:22, telyt@earthlink.net wrote: Photo Phreak wrote: > Any hunter who makes it known that he wants to hunt coyote as varmints > in northwestern > Illinois will have the red carpet rolled out to him during deer season even on farms > posted No Hunting ! The local coyotes have gotten a few of our chickens but once we restricted the chickens to the barn and riding arenas we've had no problems and I LOVE their moonlight sonatas. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft? Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information " If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking " George S. Patton --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.