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An amazing, beautiful bird! I have never thought of them as 'ugly' - their lack of head feathers is of course an advantage when poking around the bellies of things and feeding on their innards, LOL. We don't have any of them around here, but our eagles, ravens and crows perform the same duty...And I guess that blonde had a bit too much fun...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 5, 2017 at 1:21 PM
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What a magnificent bird and a useful one in the recycling of nature.
I do so want to know the gossip from your building. Drugs I suppose.
posted by
Kabu
on May 5, 2017 at 12:48 PM
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Re: CCT
Actually, No! I'll have to do an update on that.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 5, 2017 at 12:12 PM
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Letting Nature take its course... we actually can let it do that, and save ourselves a lot of unnecessary trouble!
The other sounds like, maybe, a domestic row... cops are very cautious with those situations nowadays.
posted by
Ciel
on May 5, 2017 at 11:56 AM
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Well sometimes on a smaller scale if I feel lazy and have trapped a mouse , I have at last found some brill traps that bonks them immediately. I don't like doing it but at least it is painless. I then have put the mouse on the shed roof and it has soon been taken by a crow or jackdaw. I planted 200 anemone bulbs and mice ate the shoots of all of them. Archie said poison them, but I think that is cruel. If I catch them alive I always let them go so that does not solve the problem. You do have a bit of excitement in your patch. Has the hearse moved on.?
posted by
C_C_T
on May 5, 2017 at 11:13 AM
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intriguing ending to your post... keep us posted on the news!
posted by
-blackcat
on May 5, 2017 at 7:51 AM
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Nice of mother nature to take care of that carrion. It's never
pleasant to clean up a mess like that. Now you've got me wondering about the police visit / arrest. Perhaps that one will be on the news.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 5, 2017 at 4:16 AM
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TAPS
Do you have a police blotter there where you can look at the calls? I do that and sometimes can find the answer to what's happened. Turkey buzzards are interesting. They are very particular and only eat "fresh" carrion. Their saliva has a disinfecting (for them) property to it. We have them here during certain seasons. They ain't pretty, though. We call them condors, as you probably know.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on May 4, 2017 at 9:38 PM
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