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I was about to hold forth on great horned owl (GHO) breeding and hunting behavior, but looked ahead in the messages and found that Jeff had said most of what I was going to, but with greater concision than I can ever muster! Only interesting thing I'll add is to mention that usually in the...

Hey, Bob- I hear ya ... but it wasn't for lack of trying, eh? Dave

I'd say it's unlikely that there'd be any juvenile bobcats in the size/weight range of domestic - or feral domestic - cats at this time of year. There may be some clear distinction between the pug marks of domestics and bobcats, but someone else would have to enlighten us thereupon. If you...

And many thanks to Bob, Scott and Justin for the great pics. Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to post them. But I'm a bit confused ... why do I see the same pics posted separately by Scott and Justin? Dave

Thanks, Scott- I figured there'd be someone here who could relieve me of my (unexpectedly extensive) ignorance. Well, Cheney finally came out of the woodwork and sounded absolutely, totally, and abjectly human about the whole thing. I gotta admit; its the frst time I've ever felt empathy for...

Sorry, Bob Sorry, Bob- I didn't mean to "pile on" about the bob white! I responded before seeing how many others had already done so. I remember back in the 70s when I was being pretty full of myself as an avid bird watcher that a good friend of mine presented me with a road-kill...

send a copy to Cheney! Thet thar bird is a bob-white quail. Send a copy of these pics along with one of a human from waist up to Dick Cheney that he might study the difference... Dave

any quail hunters here? I've murdered my share of clay pigeons, but never quail, but... that pattern spread (from the lawyer's cheek to just below his nipple) looks too damned tight to have been shot from 30 yards out - no matter how the gun might have been choked. And to have a wee quail...

Last report I heard had it that Cheney hadn't bought the quail stamp. Ergo, he wasn't legally entitled to be quail hunting . Just a "hunting accident?" Hell; he was carrying a gun loaded for quail in egregious violation of Texas game laws. I wonder if Cheney'd discovered that that lawyer...

Good points, Bob- but let's remember that those figures on breeding pairs (from a few hundred now up to over 7000) are for the "lower 48" and don't include Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon (where the bald eagle's survival as a species was never endangered). The bald's staus was...

I'd guess not common, but they DO occur there. In the early 80s saw one on the grounds near the Batstow mansion, and in '98 or '99 saw one absolutely butchering a dead pine at Wheaton Village (think I've got the name right - the glass museum and studio near Millville in the Southern PBs) As a...

Well now, that hadn't occurred to me;...but you may just have a point!

Yep! Them's "Florida cougars" (or "painters","panthers", "catamounts", "long-tailed cats", "pumas", and "mountain lions" as well). Some wildlife biologists like to promote the idea that they have been geographically isolated from the main continental population of cougars long enough to have...

Those long, piercing fang-like"incisors" were actually the canine teeth. And yes, even felids have canine teeth. Take it from a veterinarian ... And yes, cougars are definitely expanding from their formerly severely restricted range in the western refugia, but in recent years wildlife...

Hey Ben, Your birthday is now passed in NJ, but it's still your birthday here in South Dakota (only 11:50pm here) -so... HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Told my wife I wanted to go out for a drink friday night to celebrate a friend's birthday and she thought that was cool, 'til she found out it was in...

Hey, Boyd- I love shooting sunsets and sunrises also. Numbers705 and 707 are abso-damn-lootely mag-damn-nificent ! Dave

A google of "" "pine barrens" & cave "" didn't yield any helpful info re: the question posed, but did come up with a brief disquisition on endangered ecosystems ( a Defenders of Wildlife article) with a little 1995 data on pine barrens in the northeast. <http://www.defenders.org/amee05.html>...

Exquisite! Dave

In my opinion, absolutely!

I agree. Well put. Just leave out the "...maybe..." Anonymity is the refuge of the coward - whether he speak truth or falsehood. Unwillingness to openly speak truth that should be told and given credence and the anonymous spread of untruth are equally reprehensible and each is a disservice...