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[Enufstuff]

@CrazyDaisy  I'm sure that is the case.  So many poor animals have been displaced over the past 10-15 years, in our area.

 Much of their habitat has been destroyed with all the new construction of over 100 new homes.

 The poor things don't know where to go. There are deer, coyotes, foxes, racoons, skunks,possums, rabbits and turkeys and my husband even saw a large wild cat. Maybe it was a mountain lion. We have hills of rock that have been blasted out for construction.

 We see and hear more hawks flying over, looking for food.

We feed birds, squirrels and chipmunks, so it is a buffet for

the hawks. I sometimes find a cluster of feathers, beneath our

pine trees.

 I have lived in my house since 1978 and we never saw so much wildlife, before all this construction. I feel so badly for the animals.

[wagirl]

@Enufstuff ---yes --I lived in very wooded  area----had a creek that ran thru the property so lots of critters visited --3  of my cats got taken by them too. Still makes me very sad. 

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@wagirl   There was a brook that ran though our property. I think that a brook is probably smaller than a creek.

   It is now piped under our front lawn for about 100'. Before we moved here, neighbors got together to have it piped underground,

for safety. One child had already drowned, many years before.

  Across the road, the brook is still open. It runs between

a string of ponds. I've seen mother racoons, skunks and ducks

come through my yard to take their babies across the road to the brook. So cute!

 I'm sorry that you also lost three cats to coyotes. I'm sad that

my cats have not been able to run across the lawn, climb the trees, play in our gardens and bushes and lounge on our wrap around porches, like our previous cats did.

 This was the perfect place for cats, until the coyotes came along.  Now we have to keep them safely indoors.

[wagirl]

@Enufstuff --I had a house built on and  lived on 2 1/2 acres with that creek running thru it--was a coho salmon spawning creek--and there were many  salmon  that went up it --around Nov-Dec-Jan. It connected 2 bigger lakes, and the wildlife that came thru our yard was amazing!! there was 10 acres of woods across the street so that's where most of them headed going thru the yard. Deer--many times with new born babies, bobcats, racoons, opposums,even river otters at the creek, as well as the small rodents, weasels and bunnies, --had a turkey vulture roost in the tall trees one summer day. then there were the black bears--yikes----coyotes ran thru too. Had blue herons that  fished the waters and of course ducks--it was truly a wild life crossroads---Loved  it there. but not a place to let cats or dogs run free--My old lady cat--14 years--is an indoor cat and has been since I got her, --but I could put a harness on her with a long leash and let her go outside but I was ALWAYS out with her. 

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@wagirl   What an amazing place to have a house built!

                It must have been so beautiful, to live there.

                How wonderful to see all the wildlife there.

              I would freak out to see bears here. I have never seen weasels either. About twenty years ago, we had turkey vultures

in our pine trees. They never came back here again, just that one summer.

              I think that the large cat that my husband saw was probably a bobcat, not a mountain lion. It appeared after the rock hills were blasted out to build houses.

             The brook comes from a pond that is six houses away from us, so we see ducks , geese and herons that fly over. Every spring, a pair of ducks come to our yard to eat the birdseed and I feed them cracked corn. I think that they nest by the pond.

Last summer, there was a beautiful white egret, just walking down the road, in front of my house. It seemed to be heading in the direction of the next pond, up the road.

 That was the only time I had ever seen one. It was gorgeous.