My husband and I take care of a duck hunting club and just last week we had hundreds of snow geese land in our fields and stayed for over 2 weeks.  They are usually gone by the time hunting season really starts in October and during hunting season it is very unusual to see them,  There are plenty of Canandian Honkers and speckles but hardly ever see a snow goose, anyone have any idea why they have been so unpredictable this year?  Is it because of weather changes or what?
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Oh sure then.\nAnd I'll tell you what...\nBetween weather changes and Global Warming, a substantial number of upheavals are occurring in the life styles of many species, some to their unfortunate extinction when they change patterns and can't survive within the changed environment anyway.\nMankind is both a blessing and a curse!
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I got a 6 point buck that had a nice ear to ear spread on him (not bad for only a 6).\n\nI hunted the opening weekend of the gun deer season in Wisconsin (11/18 - 11/19).  I saw 10 deer opening day (6 does, 4 bucks) and got one.  I saw a glimpse of a deer on the 2nd day and that was it.\n\nThe deer didn't seem to be moving all that well this year.  I'm heading out for the Illinois 2nd gun season on Thursday.  Hopefully they will be moving by then.
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I just like warm temperatures! I've grown up with them and I've never liked snow! Snow is such a hastle. With warm temperatures you can go out and play golf on Christmas and if it's snowing U have to stay indoors. For example, here in california we were able to see elephant seals mating because it's warn and we're on the northern hemisphere.\nSo..I want/am having a winter filled with warm temperatures.
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As space open to the public for hunting shrinks this will most likely become a bigger issue. The vast majority of pheasant hunted in America today are domestically reared. There are almost no wild pheasant left. Are these pheasant treated any less humanely than the millions of chickens consumed by Americans every year? I don’t think so. At least the pheasants enjoy a little freedom. \n\nAlso stocking trout is common everywhere—isn’t this a form of hunting?  \n\nToday there are more ducks than ever in history because “Ducks Unlimited” a private hunting club, has purchased important properties to protect the wild ducks' flyways. Are they wrong to then hunt some of these ducks—I don’t think so.\n\nI am not sure about hunting larger domestic/wild game. I suppose it depends on how they are treated and if they are  humanely hunted in a relative free environment. If it’s shooting fish in a barrel I am against it.\n\nAs for Rooster fighting, bear baiting, dog fighting and such, I am against them because the animals are generally kept in awful conditions and the animals are allowed to maul each other and suffer great pain just for the thrill of it. It brings out the worst in man and beast. Hunting on the other hand is as old as man.\n\nPS. I would tend to agree with you that a guaranteed outcome would indicate that the animal was not given enough free range. I am against any kind of caged hunting and I guess that might include small ranches with game-fences.
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Just today I was wondering the same thing.  I was on my way home from the store and there was a dead deer laying on the side of the road, and not even 1 min, before I had nearly hit a dead possum.  I guess some animals can't get the message to there brain fast enough, the poor dears.
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Probably just the weather changing quickly ? We had a thunderstorm a few weeks ago, except it was snowing with it. Really warm before it and really cold afterwards... I'm sure it's nothing to alarm yourself over.
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For the same reason that many Northern baseball teams play the first month or so of games on the road in the South: Northern weather in February or March is not very amenable to baseball. This fact is the impetus for a very weighty discussion of equity among collegiate baseball teams as the Southern schools have a definite advantage due to the weather. Back to the question, it would be very difficult for teams like the Brewers, Yankees, and Red Sox to play games during the spring at home. Furthermore, it is a logistical issue, as having so many teams in such close proximity to each other cuts down on travel costs.
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Something very similar happened to me two weeks ago.I found a dead bird on my front stoop.It didn't appear to be injured and it looked like it was asleep.But ,it wasn't.I'm not a superstitious person,so I don't know anything about that.I do know that a few years ago all of the crows in our area died as a resulty of west nile virus.I suspect the dead bird I found, might have been sick from something like that.
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I wouldn't hold my breath ... as of today, all of the ski areas in Andorra are reporting 0cm new snow and 0cm base depth ... unless they experience snowfall of biblical proportions in the coming two weeks, it's looking pretty bleak for the end of November.\n\nYou can keep checking the link below for latest ski conditions there.
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Holy cow, that's 11.38 US dollars per pound!  The best idea I have is to find a farmer who can sell you a live goose for less.  Then you need a really sharp hatchet, a big pot of boiling water to scald it so you can pluck the feathers, and check the net to see how it's cleaned out.  If you haven't done this before, do it on an empty stomach.  At least the killing part.  Around here, we shoot them on the way up to Canada.  See if the farmer will bind it for you, because they're really nasty aggressive birds.  They bite.\n\nNot as bad as an emu, though.  That was supposed to be the next wonder meat at one time, but the bottom fell out of the market.  I heard of somebody who bought an emu promising it would have a 'good home'.  He did it because the owner was selling for cheap.  He intended to eat it though, and came in to work the next day looking like he had been in a bar fight.
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The head of Death is right at the top of the moth, I actually have one right now. It's still a caterpillar, buried itself under some soil. It stays and cuccoons for about 2 or 3 weeks until it's ready to fly and search for nectar and honey to eat, they're very cool:)
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I was fox hunting with my ex wife's uncle one night. It was a clear sky and stars everywhere. We were walking through a meadowfield and all of a sudden everything lit up around us like it was daylight. As quick as it happened it was over. We looked at each other startled and still to this day don't have answers. There was no noise and nothing in the sky.
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Many beetles survive freezing...even ones as common as the Ladybird...(Ladybug)\nThe temperature range you give sounds a bit far-fetched, though.
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The geese rotate who is at front in the formation. The lead bird is going to tire the fastest so they all share that position.  Geese do not necessarily have one lead bird that they all follow. Each indivdual goose knows they way to their hibernation area so when it is their turn to lead they do not need any other goose to tell them how to get there.
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I saw something similar in Wisconsin in the winter of 1995.  It lasted only a few moments.  They chased in a circular pattern, and then they seemed to zoom in toward us and zoom out again, and in an instant they were gone.
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It's Spring, so now is a good time to try to find them. Daisies often like open areas such as meadows, stream banks and open forest at mid to high elevation and like it to be damp. However, my feeling is that you are probably unlikely to find a field full of them in WA ... they are more likely to do that in drier (even semi-desert) areas.
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I've seen baby squirrels on the ground-their parents protect them so maybe you're not being still enough\nA hunter I know was in camo in a tree being real still and one ran up his arm!\nKeep looking