[Leica] Wildlife in a Chicago Quiznos last week.

[jeffmatsler at amaonline.com (Jeff S. Matsler)]

If they weren't, wolves were...

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From: "Photo Phreak" <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Wildlife in a Chicago Quiznos last week.


> 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
>
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